Whole Foods Reportedly Signs On for the Neshaminy Mall Site in Bensalem
Bucks Co. & Beyond Daily
Bucks Co. & Beyond Daily
by Nick Rau
Bensalem spent last week asking Trader Joe's to come to town, and by Monday a different grocery name was in the headlines. Whole Foods Market has signed a lease for a new store on the Neshaminy Mall property, the Philadelphia Business Journal's Paul Schwedelson reported on Nov. 2, 2026, citing an industry source. The store would be built from the ground up on the property, the source said, and the Business Journal called it the first tenant to commit to the redevelopment of the roughly 108.5-acre site.
The report came two days after the mall's interior closed on Oct. 31 after 58 years. It also follows a busy stretch for grocery wishes in Bensalem: on Oct. 27, a township councilman and the township's own Facebook page asked residents to send Trader Joe's a store request. Today the closest Whole Foods stores to the mall are in Jenkintown and Doylestown Township, roughly 9 and 13 miles away in a straight line by Lehigh Daily's measure, so a store on the Neshaminy site would put one a lot closer to home for shoppers around Bensalem.
Whole Foods did not respond to the Business Journal, and Paramount Realty principal Maurice Zekaria, whose firm owns the property with Edgewood Properties, declined to comment on prospective tenants. What Zekaria did say is that the owners expect to submit redevelopment plans to Bensalem Township in mid-November, and in a Nov. 3 email he told the Bucks County Courier Times the plans will go to council later this month. He described a mix of new retail, housing, entertainment, offices, restaurants, medical space and service and convenience businesses, with the housing still needing township approval. Paramount and Edgewood bought the mall for $27.5 million in 2024, according to Bensalem Weekly.
Not everything is coming down. Boscov's, the AMC theater, Barnes & Noble and the Jean Madeline Institute have their own outside entrances and will stay open while the plans go through approvals, Zekaria told the Business Journal. The owners' demolition plan covers parts of the former Sears and Macy's stores and the rest of the closed mall, in phases, with work expected to start before the end of the year.
Plenty, and it's worth being clear about it. Neither Whole Foods nor the owners have confirmed the lease, and no store size or opening date has been announced. A space labeled Whole Foods did appear on an older concept plan in a Paramount leasing brochure that surfaced this fall, but Zekaria called it an old concept plan, so the first real picture of what's coming will be the plans the owners file with the township. Once they're filed, they become a public record and go through the township's land development review, which is where residents can see the layout, the housing and the timeline for themselves.
Is Whole Foods coming to the Neshaminy Mall in Bensalem, PA?
The Philadelphia Business Journal reported on Nov. 2, 2026, that Whole Foods Market has signed a lease for a new store on the Neshaminy Mall property, citing an industry source. Whole Foods and the mall's owners have not confirmed it, and no opening date has been announced.
What is replacing the Neshaminy Mall?
Owners Paramount Realty and Edgewood Properties plan a mixed-use redevelopment with new retail, housing, entertainment, offices, restaurants, medical space and service businesses. They expect to submit plans to Bensalem Township in mid-November 2026, and the housing needs township approval.
Which stores at the Neshaminy Mall are staying open?
Boscov's, the AMC theater, Barnes & Noble and the Jean Madeline Institute have outside entrances and will stay open during the redevelopment, according to the owners.
For more on the area, see my Bensalem town guide, my story on the Neshaminy Mall's final day and where its dioramas went, my piece on Bensalem's Trader Joe's request and my Bucks County neighborhoods guide.
Here's what's been reported about a Whole Foods at the Neshaminy Mall site, what's confirmed and what happens next, and I'll share the plans once they're filed with the township. I'm Nick Rau, President of Sales with the Rarity Real Estate Team, ranked in the Top 1% of agents nationally (RealTrends 2025, individual), with more than 135 Google reviews, and I live right here in Bucks County.
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Featured image: file photo of the Neshaminy Mall food court entrance in 2018, before the interior closed. Photo (cropped): Dough4872, CC BY-SA 4.0 / Wikimedia Commons.
Sources (checked Nov. 4, 2026): Philadelphia Business Journal, Paul Schwedelson, "Whole Foods Market signs lease for redeveloped Neshaminy Mall site, source says," Nov. 2, 2026; Bucks County Courier Times, Nov. 3, 2026; Bensalem Weekly, Eric Westfall, Nov. 2, 2026; Lehigh Daily, Jai Smith, Nov. 3, 2026; BUCKSCO.Today, Samuel Knickerbocker, Nov. 4, 2026; Paramount Realty, "Acquisition of Neshaminy Mall," July 15, 2024.
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