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In making a further investment by helping to fill an open storefront in the mall himself, Karruli said he wants to show mall tenants that he's willing to put skin in the game. Karruli bought the mall for more than $3 million through an online auction in August after banks foreclosed on previous owners. "I think it can be attractive because this would be a little market where we can make the mall a one-stop shop." "I have a good feeling about the market," Karruli said. Books-A-Million closed its bookstore in the mall about a month ago, but on Friday Karruli said he's going to invest in a small food market to take the bookstore's place. Join the Kids Anthem Family Join our Kids Anthem email to get early. "After feeling the direction of the mall's resurgence, I wanted to be here."Ĭhange at the mall isn't all openings, however. The Beaufort Bonnet Company - Collins Cable Knit Hat: Palmetto Pearl. "He goes out of his way to make it lucrative," Tackett said. In Johnstown, he never would have considered opening in the Galleria, he said, if he hadn't stepped inside and met the new mall owner, Leo Karruli, who purchased the mall last August.


The pandemic made operating their business in a New York mall difficult, Damien Tackett said. Their shop at the mall will open in April and will serve treats made with local Galliker's Dairy ice cream and Blair Candy Company products. Nanty Glo native Damien Tackett, his wife Jackie, and their son David moved back to the area from New York following the COVID-19 pandemic. Like other food court businesses currently populating the mall, the Sweet Spot is owned and operated by a family. Knocking down the walls to reopen the space was necessary because, for the first time in years, the food court is completely full, and the Sweet Spot appears to be the cherry on top. Rather, the space had been walled up to be forgotten at a time when the Richland Township mall was struggling to fill the food court.

The mall seems to have grown it out of nowhere. The storefront for the new Sweet Spot ice cream and candy shop at The Johnstown Galleria simply didn't exist a few weeks ago.
