The mall was located on the eastern edge of the Lehigh Valley, the metropolitan area of Allentown, Pennsylvania.

[3] As Bradlees was undergoing store closings at the time, Crown American instead chose to make that anchor space a Kmart.

[4] The Mall was originally slated for a 1987 opening, but was delayed due to highway and sewage system issues.

[7] Kmart closed its store at Phillipsburg Mall in 2002 as part of bankruptcy proceedings;[8] one year later, the space was sold to Kohl's.

PREIT, which acquired the Crown American portfolio in 2003, sold the mall to Mason Asset Management/Namdar Realty Group for $11.5 million in 2013.

[17] In November, 2017, Bon-Ton, struggling with around $1.1 billion in debt, announced a plan to close over 40 stores in 2018, including its Phillipsburg Mall location.

In August 2018, due to a heavy rain storm, an approximately 200 sq ft (19 m2) portion of roof in the former Sears collapsed.

[22] Mason Asset Management President Elliot Nassim said in March 2019 that the property "...is better suited as something other than a mall."

[25] On January 29, 2021, Mason Asset Management announced that demolition of the mall is scheduled to begin "within the next couple of weeks" and will be completed by June 2021 to make way for a proposed 852,000-square-foot (79,200 m2) warehouse.