Raleigh Springs Mall
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| Location | Memphis, Tennessee, USA |
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| Address | 3384 Austin Peay Hwy. |
| Opening date | 1971 |
| Closing date | November 18, 2016 |
| Developer | Edward J. DeBartolo Corporation |
| Management | Angela Whichard, Inc. |
| No. of stores and services | 70 |
| No. of anchor tenants | 4 (4 vacant) |
| Total retail floor area | 918,217 square feet (85,305.2 m2) |
| No. of floors | 3 including Dillard's but originally 1 |
| Website | RaleighSpringsMall.com |
Raleigh Springs Mall was an enclosed shopping mall serving the city of Memphis, Tennessee, USA. The site is located on the north side of Memphis, on Austin Peay Hwy. just north of Interstate 40. Opened in 1971 as one of the city's first two shopping malls (the other being Southland Mall), owned and managed by Angela Whichard, Inc., Raleigh Springs Mall originally featured about seventy stores later to be remodeled and feature a twelve-screen multiplex, with four anchor stores, formerly occupied by Sears, JCPenney, Goldsmith's and Dillard's. The theater closed in December 2011, Sears closed in April 2011, and the other three anchors closed in 2003. The mall was later seized by the City of Memphis in favor to build a city Civic Center. The mall closed with 3 business still operating, City Trends, World Diamond Center, and a church. Some of the anchor stores JCPenney and Sears have been demolished leaving the movie theater, Dillard's, and the main building left. As of the end of 2016, the remaining buildings were surrounded by gates.
Raleigh Springs Mall opened in 1971. Developed by the Edward J. DeBartolo corporation (now known as Simon Property Group) as one of the first two malls in the Memphis area, it featured four major anchor stores: national chains JC Penney and Sears, as well as local chains Lowenstein's (which was sold to Dillard's in 1982) and Goldsmith's. A Woolworth dime store also served as a junior anchor next to JC Penney; after the Woolworth store closed in the 1990s, it was replaced with a twelve-screen multiplex (that closed December 5, 2011).
Initially the dominant mall in the Memphis area, Raleigh Springs Mall would lose several stores over time as newer malls opened, such as Hickory Ridge Mall and Mall of Memphis. Hickory Ridge Mall, in turn, has lost most of its national tenants as well, while Mall of Memphis has been demolished; both of these malls lost most of their business to the newer Wolfchase Galleria, which opened in 1997.
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