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Entrance to Franklin Mills mall (without the mall's kite logo) as viewed from the parking lot.

Franklin Mills is an enclosed shopping mall located in northeast Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, bordering Bensalem in Bucks County and 15 miles outside Center City.^[1] Named for Benjamin Franklin, the mall houses 200 stores, a movie theatre, two food courts, and seven theme restaurants^[2] and was visited by an estimated 18 million people in 2006^[3]. Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 450 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (480 × 640 pixel, file size: 59 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Entrance to Franklin Mills mall as viewed from a distance away in the parking lot. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 450 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (480 × 640 pixel, file size: 59 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Entrance to Franklin Mills mall as viewed from a distance away in the parking lot. ... For the traditional meaning of the word mall, see pedestrian street or promenade. ... For other uses, see Philadelphia (disambiguation) and Philly. ... Capital Harrisburg Largest city Philadelphia Area  Ranked 33rd  - Total 46,055 sq mi (119,283 km²)  - Width 280 miles (455 km)  - Length 160 miles (255 km)  - % water 2. ... Bensalem Township is a township in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... “Miles” redirects here. ... Center City District, highlighted on a map of Philadelphia County. ... Benjamin Franklin (January 17 [O.S. January 6] 1706 – April 17, 1790) was one of the most well known Founding Fathers of the United States. ... A typical megaplex (AMC Rolling Hills 20 in Rolling Hills Estates, California). ... Food court at the Fashion Centre at Pentagon City in Arlington, Virginia. ...

Opened in 1989, Franklin Mills was built and formerly owned by the Mills Corporation and is now managed by the Simon Property Group.^[4] The Mills Corporation (NYSE: MLS) was a publicly traded real estate investment trust headquartered in Chevy Chase, Maryland. ... Simon Property Group, Inc. ...

Location

The Franklin Mills site was formerly home to Liberty Bell Park, a race track.^[5] It is located approximately one mile west of Interstate 95, at the intersection of Pennsylvania State Route 63 and Knight Road. Liberty Bell Park was a race track that held harness racing and thoroughbred racing located in Northeast Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from 1963 until 1986. ... A race track (or racetrack), is a purpose-built facility for the conducting of races. ... Interstate 95 is a major interstate highway that traverses the full extent of the East Coast of the United States, from Maine to Florida. ... Pennsylvania Route 63 is a 37 mile long state highway located in the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania area. ...

In August 2006, unconfirmed rumors circulated that the mall was being closed and sold for residential redevelopment.^[6] This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Branding and design

Franklin Mills mall is designed in the shape of a thunderbolt in commemoration of Franklin's kite-and-key experiment. The mall's logo includes a red kite with a lighting bolt on the right side and the string ending on the letter "A" of "FRANKLIN". Typical cartoon representations of thunderbolts A thunderbolt is a traditional expression for a discharge of lightning or a symbolic representation thereof. ...

The 1.7 million-square-foot mall consists primarily of factory outlet stores.^[2] The entrances are individually color-coded, for quick reference to the specific location of entrances and exits located around the mall; they are the Blue, Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, and Aqua. Each color corresponds to "neighborhoods" within the mall. A Factory Outlet is a store where the manufacturer sells his own products to the general public without involving middlemen. ...

Stand-alone stores adjacent to the main mall include Walmart, Super Fresh, Dick's Sporting Goods, and, Raymour & Flanigan in a failed Carrefour building, plus various fast food eateries and restaurants. In addition, there is a neighboring strip mall called "Franklin Marketplace" (former Home & Design Center) Also included on site are a Bally Total Fitness gym, a non-denominational church, a Sam's Club, and a Toys "Я" Us. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. ... Super Fresh is a chain of supermarkets operated by A&P. They are mostly located in the Baltimore, Maryland, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, areas (including parts of Delaware and New Jersey) and in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C. Several Super Fresh-branded A&P stores operated in the Baton... Dicks Sporting Goods (NYSE: DKS) is the largest full-line sporting goods retailer in the world. ... Raymour & Flanigan is a furniture store chain based in Liverpool, New York. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... A health club chain known for its manipulative sales practices. ... Sams Club is a membership-only warehouse club owned and operated by Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. ... Toys R Us (often typeset as Toys Я Us to fit their logo) is a toy store chain based in the United States, Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom. ...

Anchor stores

The following anchor stores can be found at Franklin Mills:^[7] In retail, an anchor store, or draw tenant, is one of the larger stores in a shopping mall, usually a department store in a major retail chain, such as Macys or JCPenney. ...

• AMC Theatres Franklin Mills 14
• Bed Bath & Beyond
• Burlington Coat Factory
• Dave & Buster's Grand Sports Café
• Group USA
• H&M
• JCPenney Outlet Store
• Last Call Neiman Marcus
• Liz Claiborne Outlet
• Marshalls HomeGoods
• Modell's Sporting Goods
• Off 5th-Saks Fifth Avenue Outlet
• Off Broadway Shoe Warehouse
• Old Navy Outlet (Reopening as a regular Old Navy soon)
• Polo Ralph Lauren Factory Store
• Sam Ash Music
• Sears Appliance Outlet
• Steve & Barry's University Sportswear
• Woodward Skatepark (formerly ESPN)^{[citation needed]}

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Former anchors

The following stores were formerly anchors at Franklin Mills:^{[citation needed]}

• Ports/Boscov's Outlet - now Steve & Barry's
• 49th Street Galleria - now Burlington Coat Factory
• Filene's Basement - was in Yellow Neighborhood 3
• General Cinema - Became AMC in 2002.
• Nordstrom Rack ^[8]
• Office Max - now Sears Outlet
• Phar-Mor - vacant
• Spiegel Catalog Outlet/Jillian's - now Dave & Buster's (formerly Jillian's)
• Reading China & Glass
• SYMS
• Heckingers lumber and home center

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References

External links

• Franklin Mills
• Simon Property Group
• GoPhila.com: Franklin Mills Mall