Turtle Creek Mall

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Turtle Creek Mall
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Aerial view of Turtle Creek Mall and anchor stores in 2014
Turtle Creek Mall
Location Hattiesburg, Mississippi, United States
Coordinates 31°19′37″N89°22′34″W / 31.327°N 89.376°W / 31.327; -89.376
Address1000 Turtle Creek Drive
Opening date1994
Developer CBL & Associates Properties
OwnerCBL & Associates Properties
No. of stores and services75
No. of anchor tenants 6 (5 open, 1 vacant)
Total retail floor area 845,508 square feet [1]
No. of floors1 (2 in former Sears) [2]

Turtle Creek Mall is an enclosed shopping mall located in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, United States. Opened in 1994, its anchor stores are At Home, JCPenney, Dillard's, Belk, and Urban Planet. There is 1 vacant anchor store that was once Sears.

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History

The first anchor stores that opened at Turtle Creek were Dillard's, Gayfers, and Goody's, all of which opened in October 1994. McRae's and JCPenney were added in 1995. [3] By 1999, Turtle Creek was at 100 percent capacity. [4]

On 3 of June of 2004 [5] , Chuck E. Cheese Opened Inside the mall.

The Gayfers anchor was converted into a second McRae's location when Gayfers was bought out by Dillard's in 1998. [6] Both were acquired by Belk in 2006, which consolidated all operations into the former Gayfers anchor in 2010. [7] Goody's closed in 2009 and was converted into Stein Mart in 2011. [8] In 2014, the Garden Ridge anchor store was rebranded into At Home. [9]

On May 31, 2018, it was announced that Sears would be closing 72 of its stores in the U.S., including its Turtle Creek location, which closed in September 2018. [10]

On August 12, 2020, it was announced that Stein Mart had filed bankruptcy and would be closing all of its stores in the U.S., including its Turtle Creek location. [11] By 2023, the former Stein Mart location was occupied by an Urban Planet clothing store. [12]

References

  1. ↑ "CBL : Turtle Creek Mall : Fact Sheet". Archived from the original on December 30, 2015. Retrieved April 4, 2013.
  2. ↑ "1000 Turtle Creek Dr, Hattiesburg, MS 39402". CommercialSearch.com. Retrieved August 30, 2025.
  3. ↑ "Rome News-Tribune - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com. Retrieved May 26, 2018.
  4. ↑ "Turtle Creek Mall at capacity". Msbusiness.com. Retrieved July 16, 2017.
  5. ↑ "The Official Every Location Ever List - Open During Construction". docs.google.com. Retrieved August 30, 2025.
  6. ↑ Caldwell, Stan (October 17, 1999). "turtle+creek+mall"+"anchor" "Turtle Creek Mall owes success to location". Hattiesburg American. Retrieved January 20, 2018.
  7. ↑ "Belk to combine Turtle Creek Mall stores | Hattiesburg American | hat…". archive.is. April 11, 2013. Archived from the original on April 11, 2013. Retrieved October 13, 2018.
  8. ↑ [ dead link ]
  9. ↑ "Garden Ridge rebranding all stores to At Home". www.retailcustomerexperience.com. June 17, 2014. Retrieved February 6, 2023.
  10. ↑ Smith, Aaron. "Is your Sears or Kmart closing? Check the list". CNNMoney. Retrieved June 2, 2018.
  11. ↑ Kilgore, Tomi (August 13, 2020). "Here are all the 'Going-Out-of-Business' sales for 112-year-old Stein Mart stores". www.msn.com. Retrieved August 14, 2020.
  12. ↑ "Mall Directory | Turtle Creek Mall". www.turtlecreekmall.com. Retrieved February 6, 2023.
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