Lycoming Mall (2020 Update): Hanging On for Dear Life - Raw & Real Retail

This is our walkthrough of the Lycoming Mall in Pennsdale/Muncy, PA from July 7, 2020. This is a dying mall north of the Pocono Mountains in rural Pennsylvania. We have covered this mall at the tail end of 2018 and wanted to get an update on its health, especially after hearing multiple eyewitness accounts of it failing hard. Sadly, such accounts are fairly accurate, the mall is hurting badly. With Burlington being the last remaining anchor, and situated in the middle of the mall, the open businesses tend to cluster in this area, leaving all the other wings pretty barren the closer you get to the anchor spots. Being owned by Kohan Retail Investment Group, I do not suspect this problem is being addressed in favor of just ignoring it and hoping it gets better one day. Have a look at our walk of this place during the 2018 holiday season:    • Lycoming Mall: Dying 1970s Gem - Raw & Rea...   Songs used in this video (in order): Trevor Bastow - Soft Shades Cutting Edge - On Your Mark Patrizia Calvi - Dressed in Red Doug Wood - Clear Sailing Simon Park - Lady May David Marriott, Jr. - On the Seventh Day Steve Gray - Wonder Groove Steve Gray - Reach Out One of the most interesting features about this mall is a huge sculpture that straddles the access road outside the mall. It is called the Hadany Arch and it is featured in the beginning of the video. Here is a great article about the history and construction of this landmark. https://susquehannavalley.blogspot.co... Here is a brief article from 2017 from the Twin Tiers retail blog: http://twintiersretail.blogspot.com/2... For more up to date yet sparse info, the Wiki has a bit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lycomin... ------------------------------- I'd like to say a few words about being an ambassador to your local malls. We have been taking the time to visit all the malls within a reasonable driving distance to check up on them and see how they are doing. Also filming an updated video every year or so, regardless of the lack of many changes, just so there is a video record of the health over time. We think this is an important thing to keep tabs on, especially in these wildly turbulent times. The current health emergency has accelerated the impending Retail Apocalypse we've all been talking about these last several years. This was already a big problem, but the shutdowns and restrictions have made the issue 5x worse and likely hastened the death of the enclosed shopping mall. I know we've all been on pins and needles wondering how bad the fallout is going to be from all of this. There really is no way to know exactly unless we ALL go and do our small part to make it known how it turns out. I implore you, if you have the means to pick an area you would like to be an ambassador for, and go document your local malls. Whatever your medium, it doesn't matter, any and all documentation is necessary and vital in this day and age. Whether it be on Social Media, Flickr, Youtube, any platform gets it out there and preserves it for posterity. We can't paint this picture unless we all grab a brush... ---------------------------------- We utilize the value-for-value model here at RRR. Our product is free, and we're not asking you to pay for it. If you received value in any way from watching RRR, you can help us by donating, if you feel like it. Any little bit helps us to keep corporations and advertisers out of the decision making process. Your donation will keep us ad-free, and in turn, it will give us the opportunity to get to more far-flung locations to help tell this tale of retail instability. This is a non-profit project and every penny will go back into the gas tank for future trips!   / rawandrealretail   ITM