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Century Plaza

Century Plaza
Century Plaza Alabama mall logo.jpg
Location Birmingham, Alabama, United States
Coordinates 33°31′58″N 86°43′27″W / 33.53278°N 86.72417°W / 33.53278; -86.72417Coordinates: 33°31′58″N 86°43′27″W / 33.53278°N 86.72417°W / 33.53278; -86.72417
Opening date 1975
Closing date May 31, 2009
Management General Growth Properties
Owner Howard Hughes Corporation
No. of anchor tenants 4
Total retail floor area 750,000 square feet (70,000 m2) (GLA)
No. of floors 2

Century Plaza was an enclosed shopping mall in Birmingham, Alabama, United States. Opened in 1975, the mall originally included four anchor stores and more than one hundred tenants, but lost three of those anchors (JCPenney, Belk and Rich's-Macy's) in the mid-2000s. In May 2009, the mall was completely closed as Sears and the rest of the stores in the mall closed. The mall was managed by General Growth Properties of Chicago, Illinois at the time of its closure. It is now owned by the Howard Hughes Corporation. On January 3, 2012 they made the proposal that the mall should be turned into a jail and court facility.

Century Plaza opened in 1975 on the eastern side of Birmingham, Alabama, on U. S. Route 78 (Crestwood Blvd.) near Interstate 20, across from the existing Eastwood Mall. The mall's original anchor stores included Sears (which opened in 1974), Rich's, Loveman's of Alabama and JCPenney. Loveman's later was replaced by Pizitz, which in turn became McRae's in 1987.

Rich's was dual-branded as Rich's-Macy's in 2003 when Macy's acquired the Rich's chain. The Rich's-Macy's store at Century Plaza, however, closed after only one year in operation and was never rechristened as "Macy's". A Piccadilly Cafeteria in the mall also closed that same year.


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