Nittany Mall

Nittany Mall is an enclosed regional shopping mall in State College, Pennsylvania. It is located at the intersections of Route 150 and Route 26, one mile off the I-99 corridor. The mall is noteworthy because it is the only enclosed shopping mall in the State College region. It is uniquely situated within four miles of the Pennsylvania State University, allowing the mall to attract both the area resident as well as young, affluent college students.

History

The Nittany Mall officially opened in January 1968 and has been home to a variety of retail and eating establishments since. The mall originally had just two anchors (Grants and Penn Traffic) and approximately 30 smaller stores. Its first expansion in the early 1970s included the addition of a Sears store, which remains one of the anchors today, and over a dozen other smaller stores. The Grants store later became Gee Bee, and then Value City before being torn down for the construction of a new Kaufmann's (now Macy's) department store. Penn Traffic became Hess's and is now occupied by The Bon-Ton. Today, the mall has over 532,000 square feet of retail space with more than 80 stores and services including four anchors.