WILLINGBORO PLAZA began to decline in the late 1970s; this exacerbated by competition from the nearby MOORESTOWN and CHERRY HILL malls. A major blow came from BURLINGTON CENTER MALL, which opened in August 1982. This fully-enclosed complex covered 580,000 leasable square feet and contained 125 stores.

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Acme Markets opened their Food & Drug SuperStore at WILLINGBORO PLAZA in late 1993. It was built as a "shadow anchor," and not even that, for it faced away from the mall and did not connect into it.

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WILLINGBORO PLAZA was in decline for 20 years. The complex was partially demolished and redeveloped between 1999 and 2008. It reemerged as WILLINGBORO TOWN CENTER, a New Urbanism-style, mixed-use project. Here we see the Willingboro Public Library, which used the shell of the old Woolworth 5 & dime.

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WILLINGBORO TOWN CENTER SOUTH, the first all-retail structure built as part of the new TOWN CENTER. Its first store, Olympia Sports, opened in April 2003. It was followed by Hollywood Video (since shuttered), Rita's Italian Ice and Quizno's Subs.

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Sears was the last of the old mall structures to be reworked. In its new incarnation, it would be known as Parkway Plaza, an office building. The structure housed tenants such as the Division of Youth & Family Services, Delco Development and a satellite campus for Burlington County College (which relocated from an adjacent building).
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