Two months after the owners of Steeplegate Mall told five tenants to leave their spaces at the faltering mall, four of the businesses have opened new locations elsewhere in Concord.

Two of the former Steeplegate stores have stayed in the same area along Loudon Road. Blue Sky Hair Studio has moved across the street to 270 Loudon Road and The Arch Threading and Spa is now operating at 133 Loudon Road under the name Sudha – Arch Threading.

The Wireless Zone store is now in Hooksett, according to a sign on the window of its former location inside the mall. The former owner of Mt. Everest Goods said that he has shut down his business, but his sister operates a storefront inside the Mall of New Hampshire that sells similar goods.

Downtown, customers at the new location of the Jeweler’s Workbench, formerly a kiosk inside the Steeplegate Mall, are now greeted at the door by long-time jeweler Gregg Mazzaparelle’s one-eyed dog, Olivia.

“It’s different than it was at the kiosk,” Mezzapelle said. “She likes the fact that she can go up to the customers.”

The new Jeweler’s Workbench on 251 S. Main St., has two rooms and includes a coffee station. The new store opened on April 4.

Although the mall’s five remaining interior clients have left and anchor tenant JCPenney closed its doors leading into the mall, the outside doors to the mall itself were still open to the public on Thursday. Inside, upbeat music plays for potted plants and walls of empty storefronts.

In February, Namdar Realty Group, a New York-based firm that owns Steeplegate, announced that the interior of the mall would be closed in preparation for a new development.

“Management did recently ultimately make the decision to close its interiors in pursuit of an exciting potential project that would include the space currently leased to in-line tenants,” Jelson Santos, director of operations at Namdar Realty Group, said in a statement two months ago. “Those with public access will continue to operate as usual while we explore the future of Steeplegate Mall from within.”

A spokesman for Namdar said on Thursday that an update on the mall would be coming this week.

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