Posted: Jul 14, 2023 / 08:29 AM EDT Updated: Jul 15, 2023 / 05:24 AM EDT SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – After 55 years the Eastfield Mall in Springfield will officially close its doors Saturday.

Plans are advancing to redevelop one of the region’s first shopping malls. The new owners of the Eastfield Mall are scheduled to lay out their redevelopment plans to the Springfield Planning ...

The mall’s owner, Onyx Partners Ltd., has not yet applied for a Springfield demolition permit for the Eastfield Mall, according to the city.

(Jesse Costa/WBUR) This article is more than 2 years old. The Eastfield Mall in Springfield, a western Massachusetts staple since it opened in the late 1960s, is down to its final days.

The Springfield City Council voted unanimously Monday night to approve a special permit to demolish the Eastfield Mall and to build in its place a much smaller open-air shopping center that the ...