Dick's Sporting Good eventually opened in the former Porteous. Filene's closed and was renamed Macy's in as a result of the merger of Federated Department stores and May Company.

In 2016, things started to go bad with the closing of several small stores in the mall including Hallmark, New York & Co. and Ruby Tuesday. In Spring 2017, the situation got worse for the mall as Macy's closed its Bangor Mall store. The large two-story building will be very hard to fill. Early in January 2018, it was announced that Sears would close by April. Filling yet another large anchor store space will be a challenge. Meanwhile, Starbuck's also closed.

Sears closed its doors at Bangor Mall but its Auto Center remains open. In 2018, a new tenant was found to replace the former Macy's. Furniture, Mattresses & More opened a store inside the vacant anchor store space. The company originally had a store at Airport Mall. The new store is pictured below with JCPenney.