In November 2010, it was announced that the Bon-Ton store and their furniture gallery would be closing within the next few months. Because of this, Frederick residents relocated their dollars to the safer side of town, near the Francis Scott Key Mall. This reputation would only grow further when the Hoyts Cinema 10 was closed in 2008 after a man was stabbed to death inside. īy 2007, the reputation for crime the mall gained increased, as a woman was robbed and beaten while exiting the Bon-Ton department store. However, by 2009, economic issues caused by the Great Recession ended the possibility of mixed use redevelopment for the time. In 2006, proposals were made to redevelop the mall into a mixed use site. In 2005, Gentlemen's Choice, the last remaining original tenant, moved out. The then vacant J.C.Penney was replaced with Boscov's in 2003. The Montgomery Ward store closed in 2001 due to bankruptcy and later to be replaced in 2004 by The Home Depot.
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After a series of well-publicized events earned the mall a reputation for crime and frequent fights, mall tenants began relocating to a safer retail district across the city near the competing Francis Scott Key Mall, which opened in 1978.
The area surrounding the mall eventually intensified with low income housing, as did violent crime in the surrounding area. Other tenants announced included McCrory's, Peoples Drug, Thom McAn, RadioShack, Foxwood Casuals, Chess King, General Nutrition Centers, Kay Jewelers, and Walden Books.
Penney, and Everley's, with Wards set to open in fall 1971, followed by the rest of the mall "in about a year". By March 1971, anchors had been announced to include Montgomery Ward, J.C.
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In November 2019 it was announced that the mall would be renamed District 40 and would become an entertainment center with a movie theater, and possibly a trampoline park, video arcade, go-karts and bowling alley.įrederick Towne Mall was first announced in 1970 early plans called for the mall to be between 350,000 to 400,000 square feet, but plans were later pushed to 630,000 square feet, with a central second floor for service tenants. It was closed in April 2013, except for two anchor stores, Boscov's and Home Depot. Shopping mall in Maryland, United States Frederick Towne Centerģ9☂5′12″N 77☂7′19″W / 39.42000°N 77.45528°W / 39.42000 -77.45528įrederick Towne Mall was a mall located in Frederick, Maryland, United States.
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