Turtle Creek Mall

Turtle Creek Mall is an enclosed shopping mall located in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, United States. Opened in 1994, its anchor stores are At Home, JCPenney, Dillard's, and Belk. There are 2 vacant anchor stores that were once Sears and Stein Mart.

Not to be confused with The Mall at Turtle Creek.
Turtle Creek Mall
Aerial view of Turtle Creek Mall and anchor stores in 2014
LocationHattiesburg, Mississippi, United States
Coordinates31.327°N 89.376°W / 31.327; -89.376
Address1000 Turtle Creek Drive
Opening date1994
DeveloperCBL & Associates Properties
OwnerCBL & Associates Properties
No. of stores and services75
No. of anchor tenants6 (4 open, 2 vacant)
Total retail floor area845,508 square feet[1]
No. of floors1

History

The first anchor stores that opened at the mall were Dillard's, Gayfers, and Goody's, all of which opened in October 1994. McRae's and JCPenney were added in 1995.[2] By 1999, Turtle Creek Mall was at 100 percent capacity.[3]

The Gayfers was later converted to a second McRae's location when Gayfers was bought out by Dillard's in 1998.[4] Both were acquired by Belk in 2006, which closed the store in the former McRae's in 2010 and consolidated all operations into the former Gayfers.[5] Goody's closed in 2009 and became Stein Mart in 2011.[6]

On May 31, 2018, it was announced that Sears would be closing as part of a plan to close 72 stores nationwide. The store closed in September 2018.[7]

On August 12, 2020, Stein Mart filed for bankruptcy and announced that all of its stores in the U.S. were closing, including its Turtle Creek Mall location.[8]

References
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  3. "Turtle Creek Mall at capacity". Msbusiness.com. Retrieved 2017-07-16.
  4. Caldwell, Stan (October 17, 1999). "turtle+creek+mall"+"anchor" "Turtle Creek Mall owes success to location". Hattiesburg American. Retrieved 20 January 2018.
  5. "Belk to combine Turtle Creek Mall stores | Hattiesburg American | hat…". archive.is. 2013-04-11. Archived from the original on 2013-04-11. Retrieved 2018-10-13.
  7. Smith, Aaron. "Is your Sears or Kmart closing? Check the list". CNNMoney. Retrieved 2018-06-02.
  8. Kilgore, Tomi (August 13, 2020). "Here are all the 'Going-Out-of-Business' sales for 112-year-old Stein Mart stores". www.msn.com. Retrieved 2020-08-14.
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