SouthPark Mall (Charlotte, North Carolina)
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| Location | 4400 Sharon Road, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA |
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| Opening date | February 12, 1970 |
| Developer | Belk, Ivey's |
| Management | Simon Property Group |
| Owner | Simon Property Group |
| Architect | Suratt |
| No. of stores and services | 145+ |
| No. of anchor tenants | 6 |
| Total retail floor area | 1,790,000 square feet (166,000 m2) (GLA) |
| No. of floors | 1 |
| Website | www |
SouthPark is an upscale shopping mall named after the affluent SouthPark neighborhood the mall is located in. The mall is located approximately five miles (8 km) south of Uptown Charlotte, North Carolina at the corner of Sharon and Fairview Roads. With 1,790,000 square feet (170,000 m2), SouthPark is the largest mall in Charlotte and the Carolinas, as well as one of the most profitable malls in the country with sales at over $700 per square foot. It is the 10th largest on the East Coast and is the 28th largest in the United States. SouthPark is the most congested shopping area in the United States during Black Friday weekend.
The Southpark mall has restaurants such as Maggiano's Little Italy, California Pizza Kitchen, The Cheesecake Factory, McCormick & Schmick's Seafood & Steaks, Reid's Fine Foods & Wine Bar, Cowfish Sushi. Burger. Bar and Authur's.
SouthPark Mall is also the home of the SouthPark Community Transit Center, which opened in 2004, which serves the CATS bus lines 19, 29, 30, and 57. The Transit Center is located between Belk and Dillard's.
SouthPark opened on February 12, 1970 with anchor stores Belk, Ivey's and Sears. The area where SouthPark is today was considered to be the on the outskirts of Charlotte at the time it opened; people were skeptical about a big shopping mall in the middle of pastureland. The mall was developed by the Belk and Ivey families, owners of the eponymous department stores, who jointly owned and operated the mall, and included a Sears store as a complement due to its focus on homewares. The mall had approximately 1,000,000 square feet (93,000 m2) when it opened, and the design of the shopping mall was starkly modernist, with an underground parking deck, a signature white brick facade and tinted windows. The inspiration for the mall's original architecture reportedly was Dallas' NorthPark Center. A strip mall opened behind Sears in June 1970 with a Colonial Stores grocery store (later a Big Star food market, then acquired by Harris Teeter in the 1980s) and the SouthPark Cinemas I & II.
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