From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Citadel Mall
Citadel Mall
Citadel Mall ily commercialized West Ashley suburb of Charleston,
South Carolina.
Opening
At the time of its opening, Citadel Mall was anchored by
Sears which relocated from a free-standing location in
Downtown Charleston at Calhoun and St. Philip Streets,
Belk, which shuttered a 1950s store in Pinehaven Shop-
Location 2070 Sam Rittenberg Boulevard, ping Center in North Charleston and relocated to the
Charleston, South Carolina, USA 29407
mall, and Thalhimer’s, an upscale Richmond, Virginia
Coordinates 32°47′53″N 80°1′55″W / 32.79806°N based department store chain new to South Carolina
80.03194°W / 32.79806; owned by Carter Hawley Hale Stores.
-80.03194Coordinates: 32°47′53″N
80°1′55″W / 32.79806°N 80.03194°W /
32.79806; -80.03194 Features
Opening 1981 In addition to the 6 anchor stores, the mall featured ap-
date proximately 100 national specialty retailers and eateries
Developer Jacobs, Visconti & Jacobs - some of which were new to the Charleston area. The
mall was well-received in Charleston and was the catalyst
Management CBL & Associates Properties
for many nearby large-scale commercial projects as
Owner CBL & Associates Properties shopping centers and restaurants were built all around
the mall’s perimeter.
No. of stores 100+[1]
and services Today, the mall contains a gross leasing area of
1,138,527 square feet (105,772.6 m2), boasting a total of
No. of 6 100+ in-line stores.
anchor
tenants
Total retail 1,138,527 square feet (105,773 m2)[1]
New Changes
floor area
Parking 5427
Dillard’s
Jacobs, Visconti & Jacobs later became The Richard E. Ja-
No. of floors 1 cobs Group in the 1990s. The first major change at the
Website www.citadelmall.net mall occurred in 1992 when it was announced that Thal-
himer’s, now owned by the May Department Store Com-
Citadel Mall is a regional 1,138,527 square feet (105,773 pany would be folded into the Hecht’s Department Store
m2) shopping mall located in Charleston, South Carolina, chain and the Charleston location would be sold to Dil-
USA. It opened in 1981 and is located just off the I-526 lard’s. Dillard’s operated in the former Thalhimer’s build-
exit, the mall features more than 100 stores, including ing until 1994 when they relocated to a newly construct-
six anchor stores: Belk, Dick’s Sporting Goods, Dillard’s, ed, much larger building at the mall.
JCPenney, Sears and Target. It is owned and managed by
CBL & Associates Properties. Target
Dillard’s sub-leased the former Thalhimer’s building to
Development JCPenney, though the former eventually shuttered this
location in January 2001. Target purchased the vacant
The mall opened in 1981 as a project of national mall de- two-story JCPenney building and demolished it to make
veloper Jacobs, Visconti & Jacobs of Cleveland, Ohio. Ci- way for a new Target store - the first in Charleston. Tar-
tadel Mall is located at the intersection of Sam Rittenberg get’s success at Citadel Mall prompted the company to
Boulevard (S.C. Highway 7) and Savannah Highway (U.S. quickly construct three other locations in the Charleston
Highway 17) at the junction of Interstate 526 in the heav- area.
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Citadel Mall
Belk cessions menu featuring hot dogs, pizza, soft pretzels and
CinnaBon CinnaPretzels; all at bargain pricing. The new
Not to be out done by Dillard’s and its luxurious and
IMAX megaplex opened October 2, 2009.
spacious new store, Belk announced plans to construct a
News reports have stated that Citadel Mall earns just
200,000 square feet (20,000 m2) two-level flagship proto-
84 cents for each dollar of debt payments made by the
type store on the back of the mall next to Dillard’s. Belk
mall, and the mall has lost stores such as Cache, GAP, and
sold their vacated building to Parisian, a division of Saks
Hollister. However, the mall’s owner has been reported
Incorporated, who completely gutted the interior and
as aggressively marketing the mall and attracting new
opened an upscale two-level department store. It was an-
tenants.[2]
nounced in August 2006 that Saks Incorporated would
sell their Parisian chain to Belk Incorporated and that all
Parisian stores would be converted to Belk in the third Anchors
quarter of 2007. The Parisian store closed that year.
• Belk (189,892 sq ft (17,642 m2))
• Dick’s Sporting Goods (freestanding)
JCPenney • Dillard’s (186,455 sq ft (17,322 m2))
Belk announced in a press release that the Citadel Mall • JCPenney (129,790 sq ft (12,058 m2))
Parisian store would close on February 2, 2007 since Belk • Sears (120,816 sq ft (11,224 m2))
already operates a newer, larger store at the mall. JCPen- • Target (125,381 sq ft (11,648 m2))
ney returned to the mall and opened in the vacated
Parisian store in October 2007 much to the dismay of
shoppers who were hopeful for an upscale anchor tenant Food court
replacement for Parisian. It was also considered unusual • Charley’s Steakery
that JCPenney would return to the mall it had left some • Chick-fil-A
six and a half years earlier. • China Master
• Corrado’s Pizza
Renovation & Food Court Addition • Little Athens Gyros
The Richard E. Jacobs Group added a Food Court and com- • Sarku Japan
pletely remodeled the mall’s interior in the early 2000s.
Shortly thereafter, Jacobs divested the majority of its Restaurants
mall portfolio and sold Citadel Mall to CBL & Associates
Properties. CBL added a sixth anchor store to the mix in • King Street Grille
2005 - Dick’s Sporting Goods on an outparcel next to the • Red Lobster (freestanding)
mall’s freestanding six screen AMC Theaters. • Sesame Burgers and Beer
• Subway
New IMAX Cinema Megaplex • Wholly Cow Ice Cream & Coffee
On April 8, 2008, AMC Theaters announced that it was
closing its Citadel Mall Cinema 6 after the final showing Outparcels
on Sunday, April 13, 2008. AMC also announced plans to • Citadel Mall IMAX Stadium 16 (freestanding)
close its Northwoods Mall Cinema 8 on the same date. • PetSmart (freestanding)
The cinema was originally built as a part of the Gen-
eral Cinemas chain which later was sold to AMC Theaters.
General Cinemas had announced plans to demolish and References
replace the Citadel Mall Cinema 6 with a huge new multi- [1] ^ "Citadel Mall". CBL & Associates Properties, Inc..
plex featuring stadium seating and Dolby surround sound http://cblproperties.com/pag.nsf/
to be built on a vacant parcel of land behind the existing CorpSiteByAlphaWeb/
cinemas. With the sale to AMC these plans never ma- Citadel+Mall?opendocument. Retrieved
terialized. On April 12, 2008 it was announced that the 2011-01-25.
property was acquired by Southeast Cinema Entertain- [2] Singe, Kerry (2010-12-26). "Trouble ahead for 6
ment of Charlotte, North Carolina. It was reopened tem- Carolina malls?". The Charlotte Observer.
porarily until September 2008 when the current cinema http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2010/12/26/
building was demolished. It was replaced by a state of 1934679/trouble-ahead-for-6-carolinas.html.
the art sixteen screen megaplex known as Citadel Mall
IMAX Stadium 16 with several screens dedicated to art
films and featuring stadium-style seating with leather External links
seats, 3-D and IMAX capabilities, and an extended con- • Citadel Mall website
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• CBL & Associates Properties, Inc. The owner of
Citadel Mall
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