The Market Report

Original Grocery Tenant: George's IGA Address: 2305 Schoenersville Rd, Bethlehem, PA Opened:  1973 Closed:  early 1990s Later Tenants:  King's (early 1990s-1994) > Weis Markets (1994-2021) Photographed:  January 13, 2022 I visited the Westgate Weis right after it opened in late 2021, and mentioned that it replaced a much older and smaller store in the same mall. This roughly 35,000 square foot store was originally an IGA, then the King's Market of Westgate, later being acquired by Weis and converting in 1994. I visited the store one time, probably back in around 2015 or 2016. It had the Fresh Market decor inside and wasn't that bad, but the Westgate Mall was really sad. Although the new Weis seems to be driving a bit of new traffic to the mall, there's still a lot of vacancies in the mall. Here we can see the rest of the mall, looking down to the new Weis at the far end. Here's one of the entrances to the indoor hallway portion of the mall, which seems to...

Weis Markets Opened: 2021 Previous Tenants:  Bon-Ton Location:  2425 Schoenersville Rd, Bethlehem, PA Photographed:  January 13, 2022 Welcome to the Westgate Mall! Once anchored by a Hess's department store and a King's supermarket (no relation to the New Jersey-based chain), the mall has changed very much over the years. Neither anchor remains, as Hess's became Bon-Ton and King's was bought out by Weis, and in 2021, Weis moved from the roughly 35,000 square foot former King's space into the nearly 100,000 square foot former Bon-Ton. It doesn't appear that the former anchor department store was demolished; instead, this space appears to have been remodeled into the Weis that exists today. I believe this is the largest Weis I've been to, and certainly one of the nicest. We've seen the newest decor package looking just fine in stores like Pennsburg , but it's stores like this where the decor looks best. We enter to the grand aisle on the right side o...