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Marley Station Mall - The Mall of Neon Dreams

It’s been years since I have visited Glen Burnie. Long before this mall became a reality my family would come here to visit family friends. Nothing looks familiar to me now. A In 1987, this wasn't just a building. It was a promise. A pastel-colored, neon-soaked promise to the people of Glen Burnie, Maryland. They called it Marley Station. For a specific generation, this place was adolescence. It was the smell of Auntie Anne’s mixing with first dates at the theater. It was the specific, electric hum of a Saturday night. Today, it stands as a time capsule—a Taubman-designed cathedral of consumerism that somehow missed the memo that the party ended twenty years ago. While other malls have been demolished or turned into open-air 'town centers,' Marley Station persists. Like other malls, the changing times have caught up with Marley Station and its days are numbered. Soon, the neon will be extinguished forever and it will live on only in our memories. Oh. I forgot. Although you probably already know. I’m Keith. Thanks for taking this tour with me. As I mentioned. Taubman designed and built this mall opening in 1987. Then in 1994 JC Penney’s was added to the mix due to a large demand from the local community for them to come. Sears came in 1996. In 2004 the Mills corporation took over Taubman’s share in Marley Station. Then in 2007 Simon Mall Properties took over Mills corporation and acquired Marley Station. Fortunately, this mall was spared their mall makeovers unlike other properties. In 2000 competition in the form of Arundel Mills opened and started siphoning traffic from Marley Station. When Simon acquired this property, their attention was Arundel Mills. That pretty much sums up the future of Marley Station. In 2006 Boscov’s moved into the former Macy’s location and during this time they were struggling. Albert Boscov retired leaving nephew Kenneth Larkin to take the helm. He led an aggressive expansion campaign opening ten new stores by 2008. Then the 2008 economic downturn forcing Boscov’s to fill chapter 11. Forcing Albert Boscov out of retirement to save his company. The Marley Station location closed mid 2008. Simon Mall Properties got into trouble with Bank of America on their loan and in 2013 the mall was put into receivership and managed by Woodmont Company of Dallas/Fort Worth. Apparently Simon did not resolve their issues because in 2016 Marley Station went up to auction with a starting price of $5 million. In October 2016 Marley Station was sold by LNR Properties LLC to G.L. Harris for a price revealed after closing on December 20, 2016, to be $22.7 million. LNR Properties bought the property from TKL East in 2014. TKL East obtained it through foreclosure from original owner Simon Property Group. The mall's vacancy rate was reported in January 2017 to be just over 2%. Marley Station Mall went back to auction on September 14, 2020. The sale price was $1.65 million plus at least $15 million existing debt.[38][39] The sale was halted in November 2020 by the Texas Bankruptcy Court. In November 2020 Sears announced the Marley Station location would close as part of a plan to close 7 stores nationwide. They closed on January 24, 2021 leaving Macy’s and JC Penney as anchors. Then in a fate probably worse than death, it was announced June 14, 2022 the mall was sold to Namdar reality group. I have heard horror stories about them. Seeing the state of Marley Station, what I have heard must be true. January 8, 2026 Macy’s announced they would close Marley Station by March of 2026.