100 Oaks Mall (sometimes written out as One Hundred Oaks Mall) is a shopping mall located three miles south of downtown

Nashville, Tennessee Nashville is the capital city of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat, seat of Davidson County, Tennessee, Davidson County. With a population of 689,447 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 U.S. census, Nashville is the List of muni ...

along

Interstate 65 Interstate 65 (I-65) is a major north–south Interstate Highway in the central United States. As with most primary Interstates ending in 5, it is a major crosscountry, north–south route, connecting between the Great Lakes and the Gulf ...

and

Tennessee State Route 155 State Route 155 (SR 155), mostly designated as Briley Parkway, is a major freeway and parkway beltway around Nashville, Tennessee. It is long. Briley Parkway, named in honor of former Nashville mayor Beverly Briley, passes the Grand Ole Opry H ...

. Neighborhoods and cities around the area include Berry Hill, Woodbine and Oak Hill.

History

The mall was Nashville's second enclosed shopping area, originally opening on October 27, 1967, after

Harding Mall Harding Mall was a shopping mall located in suburban Nashville, Tennessee, United States. It was southeast of downtown at the corner of Nolensville Pike US 31A/ US 41A and Harding Place ( SR 255) in the Paragon Mills neighborhood. Built in 1966, ...

opened two years before. Original tenants included

JCPenney Penney OpCo LLC, doing business as JCPenney and often abbreviated JCP, is a midscale American department store chain operating 667 stores across 49 U.S. states and Puerto Rico. Departments inside JCPenney stores include Mens, Womens, Boys, Gir ...

Woolco Woolco was an American-based discount retail chain. It was founded in 1962 in Columbus, Ohio, by the F. W. Woolworth Company. It was a full-line discount department store unlike the five-and-dime Woolworth stores which operated at the time. At its ...

and Harveys. It closed in 1983, although Burlington Coat Factory opened in the former Woolco in 1985. The mall fully reopened in 1989 but began declining again soon afterward.

Belz Enterprises Belz Enterprises, Inc. is a major American-based developer of hotels, retail, and commercial properties, including shopping malls. Belz owns and operates the Peabody Hotel in Memphis. Previously they operated two other Peabody Hotels, one in Littl ...

re-developed the center in 1995 as an outlet mall, introducing

big-box store A big-box store (also hyperstore, supercenter, superstore, or megastore) is a physically large retail establishment, usually part of a chain of stores. The term sometimes also refers, by extension, to the company that operates the store. The t ...

s such as Michaels,

Media Play Media Play was a chain of retail stores founded in 1992 by Musicland that sold VHS, DVDs, music, electronics, toys, video games, anime, books, and board games similar to Hastings Entertainment, 2nd and Charles, and Half Price Books. Each store ...

, and TJ Maxx. Following an extensive renovation in 2008, the bottom floor of the mall remains open for retail, with major tenants including

hhgregg H. H. Gregg, Inc. (stylized as hhgregg or HHgregg on their website) is an American online retailer and former retail chain of consumer electronics and home appliances in the Midwest, Northeast, and Southeast United States, that operated stores in ...

(now defunct), Kirkland's, Electronic Express, and

PetSmart PetSmart is a privately held American chain of pet superstores, which sell pet products, services, and small pets. It is the leading North American pet company, and its direct competitor is Petco. Its indirect competitors are Amazon, Walmart, ...

. The upper floor and office building are now used for medical clinics and administrative offices operated by

Vanderbilt University Medical Center The Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) is a medical provider with multiple hospitals in Nashville, Tennessee, as well as clinics and facilities throughout Middle Tennessee. VUMC is an independent non-profit organization, but maintains acad ...

. Tennessee's largest movie theater, the

Regal Cinemas Regal Cinemas (also Regal Entertainment Group) is an American movie theater chain headquartered in Knoxville, Tennessee. A division of Cineworld, Regal operates the second-largest theater circuit in the United States, with over 7,200 screens i ...

Hollywood 27, is located next to the mall.

References

Official Website
Shopping malls in Tennessee Buildings and structures in Nashville, Tennessee Shopping malls established in 1968 1968 establishments in Tennessee {{US-mall-stub