It’s been more than six years since Bon-Ton went out of business and closed all of its stores, including a location at the Colonial Park Mall in Lower Paxton Township. Half a dozen years later, the large sign still remains on the mall’s most visible space along Jonestown Road. But soon people will be jumping inside the former department store.
The mall’s new owner — who owns several trampoline parks — has big plans for the former Bon-Ton location. Here’s the latest on what we know concerning the newly purchased Colonial Park Mall. The mall has a new owner The 64-year-old Colonial Park Mall was purchased in September by 4600 Jonestown Road LLC, a Pennsylvania liability company from Kohan Retail Investment Group, for $8.
8 million, according to Dauphin County property records. The company lists Zi Qian Zhang of Fall River, Massachusetts, as its owner. Zhang, owner of JZ Real Estate, has been a real estate professional for more than three decades, according to his company’s website.
The sale includes the mall’s main building, but not Boscov’s, the former Sears building, and five other buildings on the property not owned by Kohan Retail. What’s the plan for the mall? What we know so far is only what the new owner has planned for the former Bon-Ton store. Zhang’s attorney, Thomas Ryan of Danbury, Connecticut, told PennLive that his client wants to submit plans with the township to open a Fun City Adventure Park in a portion of the mall’s former Bon-Ton store.