The Mill at The Mall Closes After 1.5 Years

The Mill of Bel Air has closed its store at Harford Mall.

The Mill at the Mall opened in winter 2014 in a space shared with Rescue Me!, the Humane Society of Harford County’s satellite adoption shop.

A total of six Mill locations—Bel Air, Black Horse, Hampstead, Hereford, Red Lion and Whiteford—remain and will continue to thrive, according to Carrie House of The Mill.

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“We closed The Mill at The Mall as we can better serve our customers at our larger stores with more products, staff, and hours,” House told Bel Air Patch. The mall store closed June 3 for a variety of reasons, she said.

The Mill stores are filled with tack, feed, pet, lawn and agricultural supplies that require room to showcase them.

“...the store space at the mall was small compared to our other stores, [and] we made it work as best as we could and took as much product as we could fit to help serve our customers,” House said. “Unfortunately, we were only able to take a small example of products.”

The Mill locations can “provide better (and longer) hours of operation at our stores outside of the mall, with more staff to offer exceptional customer service,” House said.

To help out with the lease in Harford Mall, which ends in August, The Mill at the Mall will pay rent to the support the Humane Society, according to House.

Monetary support is just one way the Mill will support the Humane Society of Harford County.

“One promotion we offered at the mall location, and will continue to honor at The Mill of Bel Air, is that customers who adopt a cat or kitten from Rescue Me (the Humane Society of Harford County’s mall location) will receive $5 off a bag of Blue Buffalo cat food,” House said.

She said The Mill of Bel Air also gives the shelter discounts on feed and supplies; sponsors fundraisers for the organization; and holds adoption days at the store in Bel Air, when adoptable animals visit in hopes of meeting their new owners.