Bellis fair

JCPenney and Macy’s anchoring Bellis Fair in Bellingham, Washington, at the Meridian Street and Bakerview Road commercial corridor give the 767,000 square foot regional mall a comparison-shopping platform that serves two distinct consumer populations: the Bellingham and Whatcom County residential household, and the British Columbia consumer crossing the Peach Arch and Pacific Highway border crossings at Blaine whose Canadian dollar purchasing power the Bellingham retail market captures as a significant cross-border retail economy that the Washington sales-tax environment makes favorable relative to BC’s combined federal and provincial sales tax structure. Best Buy and GameStop serve the electronics and gaming categories. Target serves the general merchandise category as part of the broader Meridian Street commercial corridor rather than as an enclosed-mall anchor.

H&M, American Eagle, Old Navy, Buckle, Express, Gap, Hollister, Hot Topic, Torrid, Victoria’s Secret, Lane Bryant, Abercrombie and Fitch, Journeys, Chico’s, and Famous Footwear cover the accessible fashion floor. Nike, Champs Sports, Foot Locker, Finish Line, and Zumiez serve the athletic footwear and sports categories. Bath and Body Works serves the accessible beauty and home fragrance category. LensCrafters serves the optical retail category. Hallmark and Spencer’s serve the gifts and novelty categories.

Kay Jewelers and Zales serve the jewelry and gifting floor. Lids serves the licensed headwear and sports merchandise category. The property’s commercial role in Whatcom County is the Bellingham enclosed regional mall at the Meridian Street corridor: a JCPenney-Macy’s comparison-shopping format whose Whatcom County residential catchment and British Columbia cross-border shopper base give Bellis Fair a dual-currency consumer identity specific to the Washington-BC border retail corridor, where the Bellingham commercial zone functions as a tax-differential retail destination for the Fraser Valley and Lower Mainland BC household as much as it does for the Whatcom County local residential consumer.