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===Levittown Shopping Center=== ''Levittown Shop-a-Rama'', the 1955 Levittown Shopping Center in Tullytown was a 60-acre L-shaped pedestrian mall at the edge rather than the center of Levittown,<ref name="statemuseumpa">{{cite web |title=Levittown, Pa. {{!}} Building the Suburban Dream |url=http://statemuseumpa.org/levittown/two/m.html |website=The State Museum of Pennsylvania |access-date=3 December 2020}}</ref> with two strips of stores faced the 6,000-car parking lot with a courtyard that had green spaces, benches, and entrances to the stores.<ref name="statemuseumpa" /> The center's largest, anchor department store (Pomeroys, which was acquired by [[Boscov's]]) and other chain retailers such as Food Fair, Woolworth's, JC Penney, Kresges, Yards, Lobel's, W.T. Grant, Pep Boys, and Sears were Levitt-favored tenants.<ref name="statemuseumpa" /><ref>{{cite web |last1=Jonas |first1=Jerry |title=Pomeroy's department store chronicled in new book |url=https://www.buckscountycouriertimes.com/article/20141214/OPINION/312149898 |website=Bucks County Courier Times |access-date=3 December 2020 |language=en |date=2014-12-14}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Levittown |url=https://www.cardcow.com/c/69203/pennsylvania-levittown/ |website=CardCow.com |access-date=3 December 2020 |language=en}}</ref> The shopping center began a slow decline in the mid-1970s from which it never recovered with the building of the [[Oxford Valley Mall]]. The mall, located just north of Levittown, in [[Langhorne, Pennsylvania|Langhorne]] in [[Middletown Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania|Middletown Township]], drew shoppers away from the older Levittown facility, given Oxford Valley's much larger size and enclosed shopping environment. In 2002, the redeveloped site of the Shop-a-rama was reopened as the [[Levittown Town Center]]. The completed facility contains {{convert|468675|sqft}} of retail space.<ref>{{cite web |title=Levittown Town Center - Levittown, PA |url=http://www.dlcmgmt.com/success_levittown.html |website=DLC Management Corp |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040824072001/http://www.dlcmgmt.com/success_levittown.html |archive-date=24 August 2004}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Towne Theater in Levittown, PA - Cinema Treasures |url=http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/17438 |website=cinematreasures.org |access-date=3 December 2020}}</ref>
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