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…