Eight more Disney Stores in US reported to be closing, bringing total to 18
At least eight more Disney Stores are closing permanently, DisKingdom has learned. Earlier this year, ten locations across the United States stayed shuttered, after being closed during the first wave of the pandemic.
The newest locations to be cut?
- Fairfield, California’s Solano Town Centre
- Newark, California’s Newpark Mall
- Brandon, Florida’s Westfield Brandon (formerly Brandon Town Centre)
- Louisville, Kentucky’s Oxmoor Center
- Columbia, Maryland’s The Mall in Columbia
- Braintree, Massachusetts’ South Shore Plaza
- Las Vegas, Nevada’s Meadows Mall
- Langhorne, Pennsylvania’s Oxford Valley Mall
That makes a total of 17 store closures in the United States alone.
The Disney store in the Solano Mall is closing permanently this week. I waited 2 hours to get in one last time! pic.twitter.com/3PEV31ppNF
— Kristina Pickering (@pick_kris) September 22, 2020
The closures mean that Kentucky is left with just one remaining location, at Lexington’s Fayette Mall, and Massachusetts with just two locations, Burlington and Wrentham.
Oxford Valley began reopening in late June, but a third of the units in the mall have yet to reopen, according to The Bucks County Courier-Times.
Langhorne and Fairfield’s closures aren’t too much of a surprise. It still featured the original “pink and green” layout with statues of iconic characters. Disney Store had since redesigned to “pipe rail” design, Children Place-era design, and Imagination Park design. The latter was introduced way back in 2009.
Known Disney Store closures, 2020
| Neuhauser Straße 39 | Munich, Scotland |
| The Gyle | Edinburgh, Scotland |
| The Liberty | Essex, Great Britain |
| Foyleside Shopping Centre | Londonderry, Northern Ireland |
| Tucson Mall | Tuscon, Arizona |
| Desert Hills Premium Outlets | Cabazon, California |
| Imperial Valley Mall | El Centro, California |
| Solano Town Centre | Fairfield, California |
| Newpark Mall | Newark, California |
| Westfield Brandon | Brandon, Florida |
| Westfield Countrysides | Clearwater, Florida |
| St. Johns Town Center | Jacksonville, Florida |
| North Point Mall | Alpharetta, Georgia |
| North Georgia Premium Outlet | Dawsonvile, Georgia |
| University Park Mall | Mishawaka, Indiana |
| Oxmoor Center | Louisville, Kentucky |
| South Shore Plaza | Braintree, Massachusetts |
| Somerset Collection | Troy, Michigan |
| Meadows Mall | Las Vegas, Nevada |
| Oxford Valley Mall | Langhorne, Pennsylvania |
| Southridge Mall | Greendale, Wisconsin |
UPDATED, September 28, 7:21 pm ET: Added Columbia, Maryland’s The Mall in Columbia.
This is just sad!
I want all the Disney Stores to remain open and all other stores to remain open forever without the pandemic happening!
They are also closing the Santa Rosa, Ca location which was a pink & green
A friend who is a store manager said they are closing all of the pink and green (1980s/90s prototype), piperail (1990s) and “Mickey” (early 2000’s prototype) stores as they are low tier volume stores and focusing more on regional locations that have already been converted to the Imagination Park design ….. To me it seems like this is the beginning of the end of the Disney Store.
Tulsa Ok closed also . We drove there yesterday. It was not on the list and it is closed!!!! So sad!
The Woodlands Mall, Texas Disney Store is also closed. No signs, no shelves, no lights, just gone. No announcements, either. There two weeks ago, totally gone 10/10/20, and I still can’t find any news releases online.
They are closing the old design in favor of the new design. I have seen locations get a redesign. In fact. In 2014, The pink and green (1980’s/1990’s) location at in Canada are now gone. The last one to have that design was at the Limeridge Mall in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. It got a redesign in 2014.
I used to love the Disney Store in Columbia, then Hanover but they closed and I’ve never been in the White Marsh Disney Store so this is kind of a bummer!
Clarksburg is the only Disney Store left in Maryland, if that closes, what are we gonna do?!?!