“The mall manager said that she would let us into the mall to move stuff out,” Strange told the Bristol Herald Courier. “We had originally wanted to stay open through at least Labor Day.”

It’s unclear if any of the mall’s staff, including mall manager Nancy Mitchell, will remain on the job once the mall officially closes its doors on Aug. 31, and Desai refused to comment.

The Bristol Herald Courier has learned that members of Sunstar Keshav LLC, the company that owns the mall, have met with the Bristol Chamber of Commerce to brainstorm possibilities for the future of the property, which sits on 37 acres of land and is valued at $2.24 million.

“We are working with them and trying to do anything we can to make connections that very well could be an avenue for them moving forward,” said Beth Rhinehart, president and CEO of the Bristol Chamber of Commerce. “We are trying to be that liaison for them and help promote and suggest ideas or opportunities because they are out of town, and it’s hard for them to be able to do what they do remotely.”

Rhinehart said a lot of different ideas were passed back and forth across the table between the Bristol Chamber and the mall owners, but Rhinehart declined to elaborate on those ideas.