Columbus Place

Columbus Place

Location	Columbus, Mississippi, U.S.
Coordinates	33°30′42″N88°25′53″W / 33.5116°N 88.4314°W / 33.5116; -88.4314
Address	1404 Old Aberdeen Rd.
Opening date	1973
Developer	Jim Wilson & Associates
Owner	Colony Financial
No. of stores and services	30+
No. of anchor tenants	6 (5 open, 1 vacant)
Total retail floor area	319,384 square feet (29,671.7 m2) [1]
No. of floors	1

Columbus Place, formerly Leigh Mall, is a shopping mall in Columbus, Mississippi, United States, ^[2] constructed in 1973 and marketed by Sterling Properties. The anchor stores ^{[ when? ]} were Dollar Tree, Hobby Lobby, Planet Fitness, and Burke's Outlet, ^[1] with a vacant anchor store that was once JCPenney. In 2019 it was purchased at auction for US$3.5 million by the Hull Property Group, which after much demolition and rebuilding renamed it Columbus Place in 2023. ^[3]

History

Leigh Mall was built in 1973 by Jim Wilson & Associates and sold to Equitable Real Estate in 1987. ^[4] J. C. Penney and Sears were the original anchor stores. ^[1]

Sears closed in 2012 and became Hobby Lobby one year later. ^[5] J. C. Penney closed in 2017. ^[6] The mall was sold at auction in 2019, at which point it was about 57 percent occupied. ^[1]

References

1. "Leigh Mall auction begins today". The Dispatch. October 15, 2019. Retrieved January 29, 2020.
2. "Leigh Mall under pressure to repave". The Dispatch. 27 April 2015. Retrieved 10 January 2016.
3. McLaughlin, Grant (27 April 2023). "Goodbye Leigh Mall; hello Columbus Place". The Dispatch.
4. "Investment group buys 2 north Mississippi malls". Clarion Ledger. March 24, 1987. pp. 8B. Retrieved January 29, 2020.
5. "Leigh Mall welcoming a new tenant". WCBI. December 18, 2013. Retrieved January 29, 2020.
6. "5 Miss. JCPenney stores to close". Clarion Ledger. March 17, 2017. Retrieved January 29, 2020.