Bel Air Mall
The Shoppes at Bel Air is one of the largest enclosed malls along the Gulf Coast
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| Location | Mobile, Alabama |
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| Opening date | August 16, 1967 |
| Developer | Kenneth R. Giddens, William Lyon and Jay Altmayer |
| Management | Rouse Properties |
| Owner | Rouse Properties |
| No. of stores and services | 130 |
| No. of anchor tenants | 4 |
| Total retail floor area | 1,345,000 square feet |
| No. of floors | 1 (anchors have 2 except Target) |
| Website | www |
Coordinates: 30°40′28.59″N 88°7′23.3″W / 30.6746083°N 88.123139°W
The Shoppes at Bel Air, formerly Bel Air Mall, is a super-regional shopping mall, located in Mobile, Alabama, United States. The mall has a gross leasable area of 1,345,000 square feet (125,000 m²). It is the oldest continuously operating enclosed super-regional mall in Alabama and serves as one of the primary retail venues for the west Mobile shopping district located at the vicinity of Airport Boulevard (Mobile County Highway 56) and Interstate 65. Currently, Belk, Dillard's, JCPenney, and Target serve as the mall's anchor stores; the mall also features more than 130 stores and restaurants.
More than ten years of research and planning took place before Bel Air Mall finally came to fruition in August 1967. Designed by the architecture firm of Herbert H. Johnson Associates of Washington, DC, the enclosed mall was developed by WKRG-TV founder Kenneth R. Giddens, William Lyon and Jay Altmayer as the centerpiece of an automobile-centric edge city known as Bel Air. In its original configuration, the mall consisted of a one-level 900-foot (270 m) long retail corridor of fifty in-line tenants anchored by Sears and local department store chain Hammel's. Over the years, the mall would be complemented by extensive commercial developments in the form of movie theaters, communal strip malls, office complexes and upscale apartment complexes in surrounding Bel Air development sites. It was originally decorated with nine Grecian statues that "originally stood at Versailles and were cast in the 1850's by order of Napoleon III." The mall took its name from its location at the intersection of Beltline Highway and Airport Boulevard.
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