Lehigh Valley Mall

The Lehigh Valley Mall is a mall nothing out of the ordinary. You have your JcPenny, Macy’s, and Boscov’s which are the bigger chain retail stores. There is a good variety of items to shop for throughout this mall. Some stores come and go within a couple months, but many have stayed there for quite some time. If a store does not get a new shipment in right away, you basically look at the same clothes and styles for a little while. During holidays it gets very hectic so I normally tend to stay away unless I need a last minute gift. Traffic gets very backed up as well and takes me double the time to get home than what I should.

Closest mall to me, been going here since I was a baby. I have seen a lot of changes over the years, everything is just very very familiar to me. It is my go-​to for locations, but selection is big retailers (what you should expect), nothing amazing or out of the ordinary.
They have a Chick-​fil-​a, that should be the most important part of what I can say.

It’s been awhile since my last update and the LV mall still continues to thrive. It is one of the few malls in the area outside of Philadelphia with lesser storefronts. Vera Bradley and LuluLemon joined the huddle of still relatively active shops on the promenade. Inside, you will see most storefronts full with the near same shops (except sadly, no more Haagen Daz. Coldstone is not a bad substitute, I suppose.)
Clean, friendly mall.
The restaurant scene is still the near same. It would be nice to see something different. Legal Seafood would knock it out of the park in this area but Red Lobster is still here.

Avoid this mall, unless you want to get assaulted in the parking lot and have the security team be useless — response from Whitehall Police is also a joke and there are no security cameras, folks, despite what they tell you. Management doesn’t give a damn.

Great mall. The best was a nursing/​ada area with three rooms for changing babies, using bathroom as a family and for use of nursing. Baby changing table had wet wipes on the counter (not sure if left there by previous family or provided by the mall staff). The table is not within a room and it does not have a table cover.
The only thing that had me a bit troubled was hearing a man’s voice in the nursing room. It only bothered me because the changing table is right next to that room and I was changing my baby girl. Other than that clean and well kept bathrooms.

I think it’s good mall. Pienty of stores everyone and pienty of places to eat. The lifestyle center is nice. Pretty inside and nice layout.

Maybe our problem was visiting on a Friday evening … but nothing about this mall feels safe or even welcoming. The overall experience is really very singular. Let’s say one enters the Bare Escentuals … it is immaculate and everyone in there is entirely professional. However, the second one steps into the hallway, it is people «rapping,» teens milling about, and scam artists hanging out in front of the Starbucks doing «magic.» Where is the security here? No, really, where are they??! We took one lap around the upper-​stairs floor and one around the down-​stairs floor … and, then we decided to leave. Between the sketchy kids walking WAY TOO close behind us, some random dude literally rapping to his girlfriend (??!), and scores of shouting teens LITERALLY running around (with no bags indicating that they had made a purchase anywhere), we decided to delay our shopping until the next day … when we drove to King of Prussia. (King of Prussia has little tolerance for «riff-​raff» and «non-​shoppers,» so you’ll always have a great experience there).
Most of the stores here are low-​end. However, there is a nice collection of shops outside: J Crew, Apple, Sephora, Pottery Barn, etc. If they brought a few more high-​end stores inside, it might help to bring a different atmosphere to this mall.
We shop for entertainment and relaxation … it’s pretty hard to enjoy either of these things when you think you might be jacked or stabbed. Until there is a major change, I’ll be sticking with King of Prussia, Bridgewater Commons, and even The Promenade.
Seriously, LV Mall … consider policing your grounds heavier and better.

They aren’t the largest mall in a 50 mile proximity. For what they offer, it may eliminate the need to drive to a mall that’s a greater distance.
They have a good mix of stores and a variety of high end stores in their newly finished outdoor section. As a rule, I generally don’t go to malls since I have a laptop and a variety of free shipping services; why put on pants if I can buy what I want online? However, the Lehigh Valley Mall fits the bill for almost anything I would be looking for.
When I read reviews about malls, I typically see that many malls are «awful,» «appalling,» or «the worst.» From the several trips I’ve taken to this mall, I’ve never had a feeling like I was in a third world country, have felt safe, and didn’t see a single homeless person. The abundance of capitalist enterprises here appear to be flourishing.
Lehigh Valley Mall is clean, has comfortable seating areas, cell phone charging stations, and a variety of stores; everything I’d expect in a shopping mall and a little bit more. They fit most in-​store shopping needs.

It’s a typical mall. There are quite a few good places to eat and shop. One major complaint that I have would be the fact that my husband was actually robbed at the mall one day and the security guard said he couldn’t really do anything about it. As a security guard, you should be able to do SOMETHING to help someone in that situation. Doesn’t make me feel very safe when shopping there. Other than that, the mall itself isn’t too bad. Like I said, plenty of places to shop and eat. Around the holidays, the traffic leading into the mall can get backed up pretty bad. And the stores can get overcrowded. But what else can you expect? Some stores are fully staffed and can handle large crowds, others not so much. You may get stuck standing in line for a while depending on how crowded and under staffed the particular store is.

I am not a huge mall person but I have been going to this mall since I was a small child and they are definitely headed in the right direction. Every time one of the stores gets remodeled it is much more modern and has a more upscale feel. There is a good variety of stores and the Outside area is nice but there is very little parking in the center. I must say it is very nice to have an Apple store in the area so I thank them for that. They have added some nice seating areas throughout the mall and some of them have charging stations for your phone which is nifty. There are some great stores in this mall and some other that I really don’t care about but that’s basically the norm. This mall does however get super super busy during peek shopping seasons and parking is a nightmare at those times but that is to be expected I guess.

So, I didn’t buy anything during this visit. Most of the stores in the Lehigh Valley Mall do not match what I generally go shopping for or my style of clothing.
It is a clean, well lit mall with the area around it built up and many places to shop. Lots of parking spots. Mall had very little vacancy at the time of my visit, and that was a refreshing change vs. the malls I usually shop at. Several nice places to eat are located at the mall including a Chick-​fil-​A and Chipotle. The lifestyle center is an interesting addition.
Is this King of Prussia? No, but it’s probably one of the better malls in the Eastern/​Central Pennsylvania Area. It was nice walking through a mall that was busy and active vs. empty and aging.

This is based on my experience with the inner mall. It was too cold to walk around to the stores outside.
Of course this is nothing like the malls in NY but it’ll do for now.
They have a nice selection of stores, nothing fancy. They seems gear more toward a younger, teenage crowd.
It’s clean and surprisingly quiet. You can walk the whole mall in about 15 — 20 minutes which is neither good or bad. I came for a pair of boots and after entering about 6 stores with no luck I finally stopped at Kids Footlocker (Yes I can still shop there). The same boots at another store was $ 70 cheaper here!
Anyway, I also seem to stop here whenever I’m in PA. Its a much quieter, calmer experience.
Overall: I’ll be back

The quality of the stores in the indoor area of the mall has gone down in the last five or six years, while the stores in the new outdoor area of the mall have definitely gone up — but it’s cold and icy out there, and who really wants to do that?

Not Roosevelt Field, but it’s good enough. Has most of the stores I shop at. It’s a nice mall with several restaurants in the vicinity. The sales people are friendlier than the ones in NY. The stores are also neater. Overall when I’m in Pennsylvania it’s the place to shop.

Way too hot inside, and not nearly as big as I remember. If you can, drive a little further and go to King of Prussia or just stay local.

Sort of like the title to the classic Dickens novel «A Tale of Two Cities», this mall is a tale of two extremes based on the types of retailers that Simon Property Group keeps signing up to lease space here.
On the inside older part of the mall you only for the most part have stores that either appeal to wanna be hipsters or kids in the 12 – 16 year old demographic. On the outside «lifestyle section» (whatever the hell that means) it’s all about being some suburban yuppie with a fetish for materialism.
Don’t fit one of those groups?
Then more or less Simon Says «F-​You».
Well I mean they do have one of the more ghetto and disorganized Macy’s and I suppose for the dutchy/​blue-​haired set you can go and overpay at Boscov’s but for most of normal middle America, aka not the people who have infiltrated the area from Joisey and Long Island, this place no longer seriously serves your shopping needs and can easily be avoided at all costs.
(Based on when I was there last Friday, it looks like it already is.)
(Plus one star for still having a B&N.)

I am so happy with this mall!!! So much better than Garden State Plaza in NJ. From how clean the VS undie drawer is to how friendly/​helpful the swarovski staff is, even Forever 21 was neatly organized! Parking was relatively easy to find on a Saturday afternoon.

Its a mall!
I have been coming to this mall since I was a youngin. For some reason my perception was that it never really was updated and I was completely wrong. The inside is very clean and there are usually a bunch of great stores. What really impress me though were all the new additions surrounding the mall. Even better stores, with that commercial botiquey feel if you know what I mean. Too bad I live in NC now and the malls are well not malls at all. I miss decent malls like lhv mall!

As I’m getting older I’m realizing… I don’t even like most of the stores. There is more stores for hipsters then adults. All the stores that meet my maturity level are in the out door section. But much more expensive then inside the actual mall. I enjoy just killing time at barns and noble. I trust my car in the outdoor shops parking area way more then any other section around the mall. Just a tip though. Don’t make eye contact with the guys at the kiosks that want to sell you lotions and hand scrubs. They reel you in and want you to try all the products and then… They will rip you off. They sell half used products and take them off the shelf and bag it for you. Open that bag before you go and make sure your
paying for an unused unopened item. They also like to «accidentally» charge your card twice. If you catch them in the act they’ll will give it back in 7 to 14 business days.

**3.5 stars
When did the Lehigh Valley Mall get so nice?
Well, just the new outside shops. The inside is still pretty much the same: the usual stores and overcrowded with teens.