Granite Run Mall

The 3 stars shows my hope that with the upcoming plans to convert into an open-​air strip mall will revitalize this area of Route 1 and 352.
It’s such a shame that this mall became a victim of years of neglect. It seems like for years it was never maintained well, which eventually led to a lot of the tenants moving out. Now, last I read, the mall is more than half empty, with more businesses leaving as time goes on. I had some hope when Madison Marquette bought the mall that they would bring some life to it, but things didn’t work out.
I’ll always remember the Suncoast movie store on the 2^nd floor and the FYE on the 1^st floor. I’ve always had a soft spot for record/​movie stores.
Prior to the Chick Fil A opening on Baltimore Pike/​420 in Springfield, the Granite Run Chick Fil A was always a treat. It became a spot that my friends and I would stop at prior to seeing a movie at AMC Granite Run, just across the parking lot from the Boscov’s.
The mall, at one point was amazing place to shop and it’s current state is just sad and depressing.

I will forever love this place because I grew up here. Pocket change, Spencer’s and boscovs summer tent events will forever be in my memory. I worked here and I’m so upset it’s not going to be around anymore… Someone please save this place it’s a landmark. My good friend Rick Bradley a Ridley native shares the same feelings.

…as a mall today… one star. However, GRM memories will always be five stars to me!
Sad, it’s really, really sad. Anyone who grew up in Delco knows during the ’80’s and ’90’s Granite Run Mall was the shopping destination for almost anything. I remember getting my first baseball cards there back in the mid-80’s. I spent many a holiday season and weekend with friends and family at this once busy shopping spot. Now, due to a variety of reasons, the mall is all but closed.
My family and I stopped by Boscov’s around New Years to return a few things and decided to walk the mall. There were a lot of good memories being recalled as I walked past closed storefronts of places like The Wall, Babbages, Comic Showcase and Suncoast. All of those stores are long gone and only empty, dark storefronts remain.
I believe the anchor stores are staying. However the interior of the mall is being demolished in early 2015 to make way for a new shopping facility. I think the first thing being built are apartments on the only Chi-Chi’s Resturant site.
If you have good memories of the mall and want to recall some of them before the building is gone I would suggest taking a visit as soon as possible. If you’re looking to shop, go to King of Prussia or Springfield Mall.

Sad to see this long ago beauty has lost her will to live.
Doomed to close for the most part in 2015 with only a few sq feet surviving.
Rumor has it upscale rentals @ approx $ 1600/​month will surround a few anchor stores that will remain. But the Mall as we know it will be gone.
You were beautiful in your day. Goodbye. I will miss you.

If you want to see the beginning of the decline of delaware county this is it. Most of all the stores have closed, no good selections. Complete waste of space

Somebody please close this poor mall and put it out of its misery. My two-​star rating is based solely on the fact that A-​I remember the GRM in its glory days when I was a teenager and shopping here was a treat, and B-​I got my ears pierced at Claire’s waaaay back in the late 70s when I was in grade school, and Claire’s is still here, and that’s pretty nice.
The vacancy rate is staggering, not to mention sad. So many of the places I frequented as a teenager, and even as a younger adult, are history now. Sometimes, when I walk past a vacant, nameless storefront, I see the ghost of the store that used to be there. Most of the stores sell cheesy designer knock-​off merchandise that you can buy on any Center City street corner. Then there are stores that are just plain odd, like the store-​cum-​shrine dedicated to famous Delco athletes. (Although I have to admit, it was an interesting place in which to browse.) The Chinese store is cute, and I bought a cute pair of slip-​on shoes there, so I have to give them their props, too.
Chick-​Fil-​A is still here and is one of the few remaining jewels in GRM’s tarnishing crown.
Here is where you come if you want to see a real live ghost town.

I’ve been walking this mall on my lunch break for the past 4 years. When I started, it was in bad shape — high vacancy rate, not many stores worth going in. Now, it’s worse. Like others have said, it’s full of junk stores like you’d find at a farmer’s market or ghetto mall, i.e. cash for gold, «leather» goods, knock-​off handbags, etc. Just waiting for the «title loans» store at this point. Every couple months, another handful of stores close up. It’s a shame they can’t attract any good business. I see a Subway is getting ready to open, and I feel like warning them that it’s probably a waste of time and money. I just can’t figure out how this mall continues to operate with so few actual stores. The anchors must be covering the expenses. I hope it improves and recovers, because deep down I do like it, but in its current condition, it just doesn’t deserve more than 1 star. I will say it is kept clean… that’s about it. Of course, when you don’t have any shoppers, it’s not hard to keep it clean.

Most people are going to say that this mall is dead and not worth your time and, for the most part, they’re right. In the past 6 years or so, it’s emptied out considerably, and at most half the spaces in the mall are full. If you remember the Granite Run that had a PacSun, Habitat, Deb, even CVS… all that’s gone.
However.
Because of its reputation, nobody goes here. This means that in the stores that ARE still open, you have pick of whatever you want, often on sale because there was nobody there to buy it.
Example: the semi-​annual Victoria’s Secret sale? A week and a half in, and they’ll still have your size. Revereware frying pan in the enormous Boscovs kitchen department? FOUR DOLLARS.
I hope that they get some new life into this place, because I’d hate to see such a delco standby become abandoned.
Also, all the security guards (and for such an empty mall, there’s an odd abundance of them) ride around on segways. Try not to laugh. They don’t appreciate it.

Sadly, Madison Marquette has done nothing of note to improve the mall since taking over. I stopped in a couple weeks ago to see how things had been going, and there are more empty spaces than ever before. And what IS there, feels like foreign junk shops that you would find in a Farmer’s Market.
To make matters worse… they were actually putting in a bar. Yes, a bar.
Nothing good happens from here.
I’d be surprised if there wasn’t a closure announcement before 2013 is over.

Granite Run is what is left of the sad concept of American suburbia as a way to disconnect oneself from reality and community and go away to an artificial recreation of a false town where one had no mutual responsibility to society and the collective good. And today, as that aged and unworkable concept slowly perishes under the weight of an unsustainable, car-​dependent fantasy, Granite Run is a vestige of this unfortunate legacy. The Media Trolley stops miles away. The SEPTA stops a couple of miles away in Elwyn or Media. And the Media Route 1 Bypass, literally bypasses the Mall. As a result, it is half full of stores and only the anchors are left. I have seen other malls being wildly successful, such as Pentagon City Mall outside DC, where the DC Metro stops literally inside the mall. Not here. There are no residential areas in the immediate vicinity, which means people have to drive to come here.
The Sears store and nearby Auto Center, Boscovs and Penneys are about the closest to anchor stores around. And besides Aeropostale, there are no other high-​end boutique stores. A Lenscrafter outlet is so devoid of customers that one can hear an echo when entering. The GNC gets busier but still a fraction of anywhere else.
Get a SEPTA station on the Mall, extend the Media Trolley to the entrance, build some high-​end condo townhouses in the periphery, and the place will gain a new life. Until then, or because of their absence, the mall will continue its inexorable decline…

Oh, this poor mall.
The era of the American circa 1983 mall is over.
It’s a shame, too — because it’s so close by — and we will be coming here for the few restaurants and shops that are left — and the movie theatre.
I hope they can revive it.

This mall is clearly going downhill. The number of stores are steadily decreasing. I heard a rumor that it will be teared down and replaced by a gated community. It’s such a shame because it used to be a decent mall.

Since my original review of 2 years ago, this mall appears to have fallen on hard times. A lot of store fronts are now empty and the Borders bookstore is gone. While in years past, I may have come to Granite Run and bypassed Springfield mall, that attitude is changing. I’ll still hit King of Prussia if I need to do some serious mall shopping, but with Target’s entrance to Springfield, that mall seems to have had a bit of a Renaissance, at least for now.
Granite Run may return to it’s former glory, but I have a feeling, that like Springfield Mall, it’ll be a few years before they get it together, provided the whole place can weather the current financial situation.
Still, with Sears, Penny’s and Boscovs, the anchor stores should be able to provide for your needs.

A very nice little mall. Nothing glitzy or glamourous about it. But it has plenty of little stores that should answer to your shopping needs. Oh one more thing if you go there don’t bring your cameras and try to take some pics of you or your family. Security will tell you that picture taking is not allowed in that mall. I give this mall one star because my daughter was in the hospital for 6 months and when we finally got to take her out. of course we took her to this mall. And she was having some fun too. And we took some pictures of my daughter riding those kiddy rides. And then security basically kicked us out!!! Keep in mind my daughter is only 18 months old.

This place is trash. Simply its ¼ vacant and without a gap, footlocker, champs or boscovs I can’t think of 1 reason to even waste my time in this mall.
I’d much rather to go to KOP (nice food court) and or springfield. Avoid this like a homeless person asking for your leftovers.

It’s better than Springfield. They used to have some catering-​to-​white-​people-​generic-​Chinatown-​ripoff store a few years ago, but that place closed up. It was a nice enough place for me to pick up chopsticks when I was living in Delco.
Otherwise, it’s a generic, kinda run-​down mall. One thing I’ll never get used to in PA is how all the malls (except KOP) pretty much suck. Deptford may not be great, but it is a billion times better than Granite Run. (Humorously, they’re owned by the same mall management companies.)

I almost gave it one star. And then, I remembered growing up in and around it, and out of compassion and mercy, gave it two.
But really, this mall is annoying and poor over all. No really great shops, full of annoying kids, kinda dirty, and just… no. I’d much rather drive out to King of Prussia or Concord or hell even the Springfield mall.

I just cant sit here and let my mall get dissed like this. Ok, weve established its not King Of Prussia, but guess what, I find KOP to be quite pretentious. i had to kill a couple of hours in there and I was hard pressed to find a store that didnt make me want to puke.
Granite run is the common mans mall. All i need is a book store, a record store a videogame store, a toy store for the kids, and a place to get something to eat.(also a Victorias Secret where I can ogle half nude mannequins) Over and done.
But, im a guy and malls are for women the same way weddings are for the bride. Someone gave one star yet called it «my mall’ and proceeded to tell good memories of the place. To me this counts as a little more than one star. C’mon! lets give this old friend a break.

Granite Run Mall used to be the bomb before King of Prussia exploded. Now it’s just another horrid mall in this area – just like everything else here. Why is it and every non King of Prussia mall empty? It’s a shame

It is difficult to give a mall, a place where many stores are available to the consumer, an overall rating. In part, this single star is a reflection of years of experiences, growing up with Granite Run as «my» mall.
I remember when Gimbles was still there, when department stores had restaurants where your grandparents took you to lunch. My first taste of frozen yogurt, my first job. All the good kids that weren’t allowed to hang out at the mall, all the bad kids that did.
But parents shopped there, it was busy, clean, convenient. A destination for back-​to-​school, holiday. everyday and special occasion shopping. Malls, in general, are not what they used to be, having been supplanted by Internet shopping, big box retailers and more.
Granite Run Mall still does not have an excuse for its bad behavior. Stores are empty, easily filled with things that resemble flea markets, swap meets and an as-​seen-​on-​television oasis. It is often dark and outside is dirty. On a Friday night it is full of teenagers, mostly the «bad» kids, this time bullying the adults out of any potential opportunity to shop. It is so bad that mall security posts signs outside where kids aren’t allowed to gather…
I worry for the space… what will take its place? It can’t live much longer. What will fill the void?