Macy’s plans to close its Pittsburgh Mills store in 2026.
According to a Macy’s spokesperson, the store in the increasingly vacant Frazer mall is among 150 locations the New York City-based company announced it plans to shutter through this year as part of its A Bold New Chapter strategy.
“After careful consideration, we’ve made the decision to close our Macy’s store at Pittsburgh Mills. The decision allows us to focus on improving nearby Macy’s locations and invest in the stores and digital experiences where customers are choosing to shop today,” Macy’s Inc. said in a statement to TribLive. “We first communicated directly with our Macy’s colleagues at Pittsburgh Mills and are supporting them through the transition, including transfer opportunities where available and severance and support where applicable.”
The spokesperson did not disclose how many employees the closure will affect.
In the strategic plan, announced in February 2024, the national chain said it would be investing in 350 stores, expanding “small-format locations” and opening 15 Bloomingdale’s stores and at least 30 of its new Bluemercury stores.
Macy’s CEO Tony Spring said in a memo to employees Thursday the company will “continue to review our portfolio and make careful decisions about where and how we invest, including closing underproductive stores and streamlining operations.”
Clearance sales are expected to start in mid-January for about 10 weeks, according to a statement from Macy’s.
About 14 of the stores, including the Mills location, are set to close in the first three months of the year.
Three of the 66 stores the retailer closed last year were based in Pennsylvania, company records show. They were in Philadelphia, Altoona and Exton, a Philadelphia-area suburb in Chester County.
In April 2025, Macy’s, which owns its space in the Frazer mall, was listed for sale in a prospectus from real estate company Colliers. It described the two-story, nearly 173,000-square-foot store as having “the prime location” within the Pittsburgh Mills mall.
The prospectus noted that Macy’s would remain open for business there, and any sale of the property might require a one- to two-year leaseback to the company.
As for the Pittsburgh Mills, itself, in June, some Western Pennsylvania real estate agents received an email from mall owner Namdar Realty Group’s chief operating officer, Dan Dilmanian, that said Namdar was “quietly exploring an off-market sale. … We’re not looking to mass market the property or hire anyone exclusively, but we will pay a market fee to any broker who brings us a buyer.”
The mall is still among available properties on Namdar’s website.
On Nov. 18, Allegheny County Judge Thomas Flaherty handed down more than $17.6 million worth of fines to Namdar in response to poor road, sidewalk and door conditions at the mall complex.
Bath and Body Works shuttered its store in the Mills in October.
The vacancy followed the exit of Dick’s Sporting Goods, another anchor tenant that closed shop there in June. Dick’s instead chose to open a location at The Waterworks strip mall near Aspinwall — just 9 miles from the Mills.
Jo-Ann Fabrics closed months later after the company declared bankruptcy.
According to a map posted last year inside the Mills, there are 162 storefronts available, not including kiosks. Only 22 tenants — 17 of them for-profit businesses — remained in those available storefronts.
