WORCESTER — Best Buy Co. Inc. will close its store at the Greendale Mall Nov. 7, choosing not to renew a lease because of declining business at the shopping center.

“The customers have sort of shown they prefer to shop in other places than the Greendale Mall,” said Jeff Shelman, a Best Buy spokesman.

About 35 people work full time at the store, and Best Buy will seek to transfer them to other stores. Best Buy told employees about the closing Sunday night, Mr. Shelman said. The company also has stores in Marlboro and at the Shoppes at Blackstone Valley in Millbury.

The 45,000-square-foot store has been occupied by Best Buy, an electronics retailer, since 1999. Best Buy is based in Richfield, Minnesota, and operates more than 1,000 stores in the United States, Canada and Mexico.

The Greendale Mall is an enclosed shopping center at 7 Neponset St. that has struggled to attract retail tenants in recent years. Current tenants include shoe retailer DSW, a T.J. Maxx/HomeGoods off-price clothing and home furnishings store, a LensCrafters prescription eyewear site, a Bath & Body Works bath shop store and a GNC health and nutritional supplements store.

The mall was sold at foreclosure auction for $11.8 million in 2016 when Simon Property Group Inc. of Indianapolis, the largest shopping mall operator in the United States, was in default on a loan on the property.

The mall is now owned by Texas asset management company C-III Capital Partners, according to assessor's records.In January, Worcester city councilors discussed consolidating public works operations at the mall.

KeyPoint Partners of Burlington, a commercial real estate company that manages the mall, did not respond to a request for comment Monday morning.