Oxford Valley Mall Apartments Construction Underway

MIDDLETOWN TOWNSHIP, PA —As shoppers enter the Oxford Valley Mall near the JC Penney store, the fenced-in construction site nearby is showing signs of life.

On this sunny Saturday, four grey towers stand with a little separation between them, a sign of change for the property around the mall.

These four-story towers are elevator/stair towers and the first phase of construction of two buildings that will one day house 600 luxury apartments.

Plans for the project were first approved by the Middletown Township supervisors in 2020.

CornerstoneTracy, a Villanova-based developer of luxury apartment communities, said on its website that Phase 1 of the project calls for 391 Class A apartments. Those are expected to be completed in March 2025, the website stated.

Under the project's second phase, 223 apartments would be built.

The approved plans stated that mall owner Simon would sell 20 of the mall property's roughly 135 acres to developers with two, four-story buildings being added on the south end of the site near the former Boscov's, which has been demolished.

The project includes a public green that would separate the apartments from the mall. The apartments will have a pool, fitness center, and business center, township officials said at the time the plans were approved.

Developers would also set up a shuttle service from the property that would take people from there to SEPTA's Woodbourne Station. That shuttle would be open to the public, they said.

CornerstoneTracy could not be reached for comment Friday.

(Photo Courtesy of CornerstoneTracy. This is an artist rendering of what the first phase of luxury apartments near the Oxford Valley Mall will look like.)