Alexandria Mall
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Mall history
In March 1972, Buddy Tudor's family-owned construction company from Pineville began construction of Alexandria Mall. The mall opened its doors on August 1, 1973 with over 30 stores, spanning nearly Template:Cvt in total. It featured national department stores JCPenney and Sears (both of which replaced preexisting locations in Alexandria), regional chain Bealls (later Beall-Ladymon), based in Shreveport, Louisiana, and local department stores Weiss & Goldring, Gus Kaplan (later Green's) and Wellan's as anchors. Other original tenants included Piccadilly Cafeteria, Peoples Shoes, Lerner Shops and a two-screen cinema run by General Cinema Corporation.[2][3]
In August 1986, an expansion to the mall was completed that doubled its size to Template:Cvt and added 56 additional stores, including the department stores Dillard's and Mervyn's (the latter of which opened that October due to a delay in construction), and a food court dubbed "The Market Place". Concurrently, portions of the existing mall were renovated, and the two-screen cinema was replaced with a six-screen multiplex on the mall's periphery.[4][5][6] In honor of the mall's expansion, local pizza chefs cooked a Script error: No such module "convert". pizza.[7]
In July 1989, Wellan's closed after failing to pay rent for seven months; the Alexandria Mall store was the chain's last remaining location.[8] In 1994, Beall-Ladymon was acquired by Stage Stores and renamed to Stage. In November of that year, a renovation of the Sears wing of the mall and its entrance was completed, and part of the former Wellan's became a Sam Goody store;[9] Stein Mart filled the remainder of the space in October 1995.[10]
In February 2001, General Growth Properties (GGP) took over leasing and management of the mall.[11] It was then sold to J. Herzog Properties of Denver, Colorado in 2004, with GGP retaining its management role.[12] Mervyn's closed in January 2006,[13] followed soon by the closure of Stein Mart on April 30.[14] In March 2007, Burlington Coat Factory opened in the former Mervyn's location,[15] while Weiss & Goldring relocated outside the mall into a former Firestone tire center that was converted into a strip mall.[16] Bed Bath & Beyond opened in 2008 in the previous location of Weiss & Goldring, and the former Stein Mart became a children's play place called Slinkee's.
GGP handed over management of the mall to Jones Lang LaSalle in 2010.[17] Both Slinkee's and the neighboring Lagniappe Theater Company had their leases terminated on September 29, 2015, as the mall was under negotiations to convert their spaces into a Conn's store, which opened on February 13, 2016.[18][19]
In September 2018, Sears closed as part of the chain's plan to close 72 stores nationwide.[20] Stage closed in early 2019. Bed Bath & Beyond closed in March 2023,[21] and Michaels opened in its place later that year.[22] In fall 2024, Burlington Coat Factory moved to the nearby MacArthur Village shopping center, and Conn's closed as part of the chain's bankruptcy proceedings.[23][24]
References
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External links
Template:Alexandria, Louisiana Template:Shopping malls in Louisiana