Madison Square Mall
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| Location | Huntsville, Alabama |
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| Coordinates | 34°44′15″N 86°39′58″W / 34.7376°N 86.6662°WCoordinates: 34°44′15″N 86°39′58″W / 34.7376°N 86.6662°W |
| Address | 5901 University Drive |
| Opening date | October 16, 1984 |
| Closing date | January 29, 2017 |
| Owner | The Grove Huntsville LLC |
| No. of stores and services | 120 (at its peak) |
| No. of anchor tenants | 5 (at its peak) |
| Total retail floor area | 929,993 sq ft (86,399.2 m2) |
| No. of floors | 2 |
| Parking | 4,767 |
| Website | madisonsquaremall.com (now links to MidCity Huntsville website) |
Madison Square Mall was the largest enclosed shopping center in Huntsville, Alabama encompassing over 929,993 sq ft (86,399.2 m2). It was also the oldest extant enclosed shopping mall (after The Heart of Huntsville Mall closed) in the city until its closure in 2017. The mall was located on the corner of University Drive (US 72) and Research Park Boulevard (SR-255).
In late January 2017, the mall permanently closed after 32 years of operation. Demolition of the former mall began on February 6, 2017. The property will be redeveloped into MidCity Huntsville beginning in 2017.
Madison Square Mall opened on August 1, 1984, with anchors JCPenney, Parisian,Castner Knott, Pizitz, and a Sears which relocated from Heart of Huntsville Mall. Junior anchors included Yielding and Blach's. Over time, some of the anchors moved or were bought out by bigger companies. Blach's was closed by 1987 and replaced by The Limited and Victoria's Secret. Pizitz was acquired by Jackson, Mississippi-based McRae's in 1988 and renamed as such until McRae's was acquired by Charlotte, North Carolina-based Belk. Castner Knott was acquired in 1998 by Dillard's. Yielding closed their Madison Square Mall location around 1993.
For the next 10 years the space was used by Castner Knott/Dillard's for their menswear. Until 2008, Steve & Barry's used the space. In 2007, Belk, after purchasing Parisian, moved its store from the former McRae's space to the much larger former Parisian space and renovated it to fit the Belk model. The former McRae's building remained vacant from then until the mall closed. Belk departed for Bridge Street Town Center in late 2014.
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