Warwick Mall’s best trick is never getting sold

Warwick Mall has carried the same family names for 56 years. Bliss, Brennan, and Lane helped develop it in 1970, and the same 3 names sat on a $75 million refinancing in 2017.

Plenty of malls that age have burned through 4 owners: a developer, a trust, a lender, a liquidator. This property’s paperwork still leads back to its founding families, with a Bliss son-in-law becoming its public face.

You can see the continuity in small things. A carousel spinning since the early 1990s. A door opened early for the mall walkers. A customer service desk in the JCPenney wing…

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