One of the world’s largest manufacturers of home-building materials is scheduled to close this week on its $90 million purchase of the Mall at the Source in Westbury.

China Lesso Group Holdings, a global conglomerate headquartered in Foshan, China that counts plumbing supplies, doors and windows, kitchen cabinets, home furnishings and other building materials among its many offerings, plans to turn part of the mall into a showroom and distribution center for its plethora of products.

The company has yet to reveal its plans for the entire Source Mall property and its officials could not be reached for comment.

China Lesso, which reported sales revenue of more than $2.5 billion in 2016, has 50 subsidiaries and 22 production facilities in China, Canada, India, Indonesia, Uganda, Canada and the U.S., according to its website. Its Lesso America division is located in Corona, Calif.

Besides its acquisition of the the 521,486-square-foot Source Mall and the connected 208,000-square-foot former Fortunoff department store, the building materials and home furnishings giant is currently expanding its global presence with new real estate developments in Sydney, Australia; Toronto, Canada; and Jurupa Valley, Calif., where it owns nearly 110 acres.

Opened in 1997, the Mall at the Source has been an underperforming retail property for nearly a decade. After suffering a major tenant exodus in the wake of the last recession, the mall’s owners defaulted on a $124 million commercial mortgage-backed securities loan and the property was returned to its lender in Aug. 2012, according to Trepp, the Manhattan-based CMBS loan analyst. Almost a year later, the former Fortunoff store, which had closed in 2009, was also foreclosed on, leaving a $46 million CMBS debt unpaid. The loan exposure on the two properties is now nearly $200 million.

The mall’s tenants have told LIBN they’ve been told very little about the new owner or its plans for the Westbury property.