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| Location | Nashville, Tennessee |
| Address | 2126 Abbott Martin Road |
| Management | Davis Street Land Company |
| Owner | Davis Street Land Company |
| No. of stores and services | 100 |
| No. of anchor tenants | 2 |
| Total retail floor area | 825,000 square feet (76,600 m2) (GLA) |
| No. of floors | 2 |
| Website | themallatgreenhills.com |
The Mall at Green Hills is a regional shopping mall in the upscale Green Hills commercial and residential district of Nashville. It has over 100 stores on two floors totaling 825,000 square feet (76,600 m2). The mall is mostly geared to an upscale crowd, and features many stores unique to the Nashville area, in addition to standard suburban mall fare.
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History
The mall has undergone several renovations and expansions over the past 50 years. Green Hills Shopping Center opened in the early 1950s and originally operated as an open-air strip mall. In the late 1960s, a Castner Knott store opened along with a newly-constructed, yet small, enclosed area. Cain-Sloan (which became Dillard's in 1987) also opened a stand-alone store at the west end of the mall. It was the first new locations for both Nashville-based retailers, who had both previously only operated their downtown stores. Both would eventually expand to the far suburbs before being merged into larger chains.
Through the late 1980s and early 1990s, the mall's largest expansion to date was constructed, connecting the enclosed mall to Dillard's and adding a food court adjacent to Castner Knott. In the process of expansion, most of the stores with exterior entrances were closed or moved into the enclosed mall. The mall's Walgreens store moved to a new stand-alone building a block away, and its former slot became occupied by Carrabba's. The food court's restaurants failed to attract substantial business, and within a few years, the area was converted into more shops after all the restaurants vacated. In the newest mall expansion, however, Panera Bread and The Cheesecake Factory joined Carrabba's as the mall's lone eateries (except for a small bistro within Davis-Kidd). All three can be accessed by external entrances.
In 1998, a new development emerged adjacent to the mall, including a health club and a Regal Cinemas 16-screen megaplex. Regal also opened an indoor amusement park, "FunScape", which closed in 2000 when Regal pulled the plug on the concept. That space was converted into offices. The health club, named The Club, closed in 2007. Meanwhile, Castner Knott became Proffitt's, and later Hecht's.
A new Hecht's store was built in 2004 adjacent to the former food court, allowing the former department store building to be demolished for another mall expansion. The new space opened in 2005 and featured more mall space and the return of junior anchor Davis-Kidd Booksellers, which left the mall for a nearby building in 1986. Hecht's became Macy's in 2006.
A brand new Nordstrom store, Tennessee's first, will open in 2011 next to Dillard's at the mall's main entrance facing Abbott Martin Road. Before construction of Nordstrom begins, two new levels will be added to the existing parking garage beginning in early 2010.
Anchors
Current
- Dillard's (187,000 sq. ft.; Opened as Cain-Sloan 1965)
- Macy's (180,000 sq. ft.; Opened as Hecht's 2004)
Future
- Nordstrom (149,000 sq. ft.) Opening Fall 2011 due to economic reasons[citation needed]
Former
- Cain-Sloan (became Dillards, 1987)
- Castner Knott (became Proffitt's, 1998)
- Proffitt's (became Hecht's, 2001)
- Hecht's (moved next door, 2004; became Macy's, 2006)
See also
List of shopping malls in Tennessee
External links
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