Closing Macy's Site Sold To Baltimore County With Plans For Development: Report

WINDSOR MILL, MD — The Baltimore County government bought the shuttering Macy's building at Security Square Mall with plans to convert the property into a transit-oriented development, WMAR reported Friday.

Macy's on Thursday announced the looming closures of its department stores at Security Square Mall in Windsor Mill and Harford Mall in Bel Air.

WMAR said Baltimore County in June 2024 negotiated to buy the Macy's and some adjacent pad sites for $6.5 million. The county now owns 39 acres of the 88-acre mall site, WMAR reported.

In August 2022, Baltimore County bought the former Sears for $10 million. That sale included 18 acres of land and the 202,653-square-foot Sears building connected to the mall. Sears has been closed since November 2019.

The county bought another 12 acres of mall land for $6.85 million in May 2023. As of that sale, more than 20% of the 1 million gross square feet of built space on the site was vacant.

Read WMAR's story to learn how the county's transit-oriented development plans tie into the proposed Red Line that would connect East and West Baltimore via rapid transportation.

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