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Malls · New York

Summit Park Mall

From the authors' mapRedevelopedReinhabitedPartly retrofittedWheatfield, NY

Opened 1972. Closed 2018. Partial Redeveloped · Reinhabited in 2020.

Status nowPartly retrofittedauthors' map
What it becamehotel, entertainment, retail, education, mixedextracted, unreviewed
Last sale$4.2M · 2014public reporting
Retrofit year2020authors' map
Rail within 800 mNoOpenStreetMap, HUD
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Former anchors
SearsThis site: Sears wikipedia · all sites with this
Finance and pipeline
On FacebookThis site: …https://www.facebook.com/326462984100192 overture · all sites with this
Website aliveThis site: …http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=27038155 overture / http check · all sites with this
Place
Grocery within 800 mThis site: 1 stores openstreetmap · all sites with this
High inland flooding riskThis site: Relatively High fema-nri · all sites with this
Shrinking countyThis site: -0.2% census-acs · all sites with this
Policy tool
Tax abatement or incentiveThis site: …tax breaks Partial reinhabitation: sports extraction · all sites with this
Scale
Building footprint 50,000+ m²This site: 57,770 m² overture · all sites with this
Strategy
RedevelopedThis site: Partial reinhabitation: sports arcgis-webmap · all sites with this
ReinhabitedThis site: Partial reinhabitation: sports arcgis-webmap · all sites with this
New use
EducationThis site: …new_use field extraction · all sites with this
Entertainment and sportsThis site: …new_use field extraction · all sites with this
HotelThis site: …new_use field extraction · all sites with this
Mixed useThis site: …new_use field extraction · all sites with this
Retail (continued)This site: …new_use field extraction · all sites with this

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From the authors' map

NY, Wheatfield: Summit Park Mall/Niagara International Sports & Entertainment Center, 2020
• Partial reinhabitation: sports
NY, Wheatfield: Summit Mall, 2016
• Partial redevelopment, sports

Now

StatusPartly retrofittedauthors' map
StrategyPartial Redeveloped · Reinhabitedauthors' map
New useshotel, entertainment, retail, education, mixedextracted, unreviewed
What is there nowPartial reinhabitation: sportsauthors' map
Retrofit year2020authors' map
RedeveloperZoran Cocovextracted, unreviewed

Planning

Public purchase or subsidytax breaksextracted, unreviewed

Deals and debt

DateEventPricePartiesSource
2014Sold$4.2M closedZoran CocovWikipedia
2004Sold$5.0M pendinglocal developerWikipedia

Securitised debt and public filers

Filings (2001 to date) that name “Summit Park Mall” and “Wheatfield” (2 hits, first 2 sampled). No commercial-mortgage trust names this mall in the sample, which does not rule out a securitised loan. Text matches, not a title search. Open the search · all trusts.

KindFilerFilingsDatesForms
Public owner (weak)FOREST CITY ENTERPRISES INC22001-04-26 to 2003-04-1010-K 2

Site context

FEMA flood zoneno NFHL polygon at point (unmapped or outside coverage)FEMA NFHL
EPA-regulated facilities within 500 m1: SEARS #1514EPA FRS
Census tract 360630227144,222 people, 894 per sq mi; median household income $79,674; median gross rent $765; 36% renters; 4.2% vacant units; 0.0% commute by transitACS 2023 5-year
Within a 10–15 minute walk (800 m)3 of 6 daily needs: 1 grocers, 0 schools, 1 parks or playgrounds, 6 health, 0 civic, 0 food and drink; 0 cycleway segments, 21 sidewalk-tagged segmentsOpenStreetMap
Opportunity ZonenoHUD
Housing permits, Niagara County (NY), 20240 units in 5+ unit buildings, 2 in 2–4, 165 single-family; 2023: 0 in 5+Census BPS
Social vulnerability (CDC SVI 2022, tract)overall percentile 0.38; socioeconomic 0.17; housing and transport 0.81; 8% below 150% of poverty; 10% of households with no vehicleCDC/ATSDR
Other atlas sites nearby0 within 10 km, 7 within 25 kmcomputed
Overture Mapsplace Summit Park Mall (shopping_mall, confidence 0.89, from Overture, Overture-signals, meta); building footprint 57,770 m²Overture (CDLA-Permissive 2.0)
Website and socialen.wikipedia.org (alive); archived 2003–2025 (Wayback) · social: facebookOverture / Internet Archive
Attention: Wikipedia page views9,058 since 2015; 2,656 in the last 12 months (-8% vs the prior 12); peak 2026-02 with 306Wikimedia
Tract change 2013–2023tract boundary changed between the 2010 and 2020 census; no 2013 comparisonCensus ACS
Natural hazard risk (FEMA National Risk Index, tract)relatively moderate overall (score 74.5); expected annual loss $1.8M; high: inland flooding; community resilience very highFEMA NRI
Tax-credit housing within 1 kmnoneHUD LIHTC
Retail trade in the county, 2012 to 2023722 establishments (-2%); 9,867 jobs (-7%)Census CBP
Housing market in the countytypical home value $254,624 (+5% 1 yr, +35% 5 yr); typical rent $1,177/mo (+5% 1 yr), 2026-09Zillow Research
House price index, tract, 2025352 (2000 = 100); +5.0% 1 yr, +42% 5 yr, +83% 10 yrFHFA
Traffic on the busiest road within 600 m (2024)10,042 vehicles a day on Williams Rd (minor arterial, 4 lanes); 314 trucks; 40 counted segmentsFHWA HPMS

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History and original facts

Now called / also known asNiagara International Sports & Entertainment Center, Summit Mall
Opened1972Wikidata
Closed2018extracted, unreviewed
AnchorsSteve & Barry's, Sears, The Bon-Ton, AM&A's, Hens & Kelly, Jenss
CountyNiagara County
Census division2 · Mid-Atlantic

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Background

The Summit, formerly Summit Park Mall, was an enclosed shopping mall in Wheatfield, New York. Opened in 1972, the mall became largely vacant by the late 1990s. It underwent renovations in 2004 and 2005 which added new anchor stores and tenants, but after the mall's developers filed for bankruptcy protection in 2009, the complex was closed except for three anchor stores: Sears, The Bon-Ton and Save-A-Lot, with two more vacant anchors last occupied by Steve & Barry's and a Macy's closeout store. As of September 2017, Save-A-Lot has closed permanently, leaving only Sears and The Bon-Ton still open in the mall. On April 18, 2018, it was announced that The Bon-Ton would be closing in August 2018 as it is going out of business, leaving Sears as the only tenant left. On May 7, 2018, Sears announced that would also be closing in August 2018. In December 2019, within Sears' old location, The Niagara International Sports & Entertainment facility opened. In 2020, a plan was proposed to revitalize the location, converting part of the mall into mixed use spaces, as well as offering lodging for visitors. Developers plan to expand the project to eventually include ice rinks, shops, and eateries.

Excerpt from Wikipedia (authors and history), CC BY-SA 4.0. May be older than the record above.

Timeline

  1. 1972 Opened (Wikidata)
  2. 1972 Opened
  3. 1982 Hens & Kelly moved out
  4. 1992 Macy's closeout store opened
  5. 1995 AM&A's bought out by The Bon-Ton
  6. 1998 Jenss closed
  7. 2004 Local developer purchased mall for $5 million
  8. 2005 Steve & Barry's opened in former Jenss space
  9. 2009 Oberlin Plaza One announced closure following bankruptcy
  10. 2014 Zoran Cocov purchased mall for $4.2 million
  11. 2017 Save-A-Lot closed permanently
  12. 2020 Retrofit: reinhabit

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