After 10 Years, a former Kmart Finally Sees New Life

Welcome to Bradford, PA. Home of, well, not much.... There is however a lot of retail history in this community located only 5 minutes south of the New York/Pennsylvania border. There is a dead mall (which I mentioned in the Warren Mall post) and a couple of other interesting things to see, but most of the action actually is in the suburb of Foster Brook which is where the dead mall is located. This post will focus on the former Kmart that sat next to the mall property, but did not have any mall access. The Bradford Mall will be covered in a separate post.

The abandoned Bradford Kmart back in 2013. It closed as a part of the 2003 wave of bankruptcy closings.

As time moved on, I finally came to understand why the property sat vacant for so long. The mall never owned it, it had been owned by others. Last year the Bradford mall owners bought it and the next thing I know is this happens:

A bit of work is done on the old Kmart.

Then Dunham's announces it will be opening in half of the former Kmart.

This kind announcement actually kind of took me by surprise, as it all happened rather quickly. With it now being open as of this post, I recently decided to check out the interior to see if any Kmart remains could be seen.

Dunham's kept the Kmart style of entrance.

I don't believe these restrooms were here when this store was a Kmart. If they were they were here, they weren't accessible to the public. I want to say Layaway would of been more to the left of this area, but I don't know for certain.

That's A LOT of guns....

Now I leave you with some pictures of the former garden shop area which still sits empty to this day.

As you can tell, in the actual Dunham's store they completely remodeled the store. The only evidence remaining that this was once a Kmart is on the outside. That's it for now, see you in the next post!