College Square is an indoor regional

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located in Morristown,

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. College Square is owned by Time Equities Inc and managed by Urban Retail Properties.Carmike Cinemas Announces Construction Plans for New State-of-the-Art Theatre in Morristown, Tennessee
Business Wire, Oct 9, 2007 It features approximately 50 stores and restaurants including

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History

Opened in 1988, College Square is the only shopping mall in an eight-county area of

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. The mall was originally anchored by Maryville-based

Proffitt's Proffitt's was a department store chain based in Alcoa, Tennessee. On March 8, 2006, the Proffitt's and McRae's stores were converted into Belk stores. Belk acquired the two chains in July 2005 from Saks, Inc. History Beginnings Jeweler Dav ...

(a regional department store),

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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 ...

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, and

Goody's Family Clothing Goody's Family Clothing Inc. was an American chain of department stores, owned and operated by Stage Stores and headquartered in Houston, TX. It specialized in retailing on-trend apparel, accessories, cosmetics, footwear, and housewares. It wa ...

(a regional discount junior department store). Walmart has relocated outside the mall, with

Belk Belk, Inc. is an American department store chain founded in 1888 by William Henry Belk in Monroe, North Carolina, with nearly 300 locations in 16 states. Belk stores and Belk.com offer apparel, shoes, accessories, cosmetics, home furnishings, ...

taking part of its space, including an outside and mall entrance. A regionally based chain of

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stores, Dixie Pottery, had a location adjacent to Belk. The store, which had no mall entrance, closed in 2007. The

location closed after the chain was bought out by

; College Square had been the only mall in the region with locations of both Proffitt's and Belk. In 2007,

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moved into the Proffitt's space after expanding the building into a former parking lot. In 2008, a new twelve-screen Carmike Cinema was built over a large portion of the southern parking lot. The former theater was demolished. In addition, the Goody's Family Clothing store in the mall closed in 2009 with the bankruptcy of the retail chain, and then returned on March 17, 2011, within its former space. Sears closed in 2013.

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went into half of the old Sears store along with

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. On January 12, 2016, JCPenney announced it was closing in spring 2016.

Dick's Sporting Goods Dick's Sporting Goods, Inc. (stylized as "DICK'S Sporting Goods") is an American sporting goods retail company, based in Coraopolis, Pennsylvania. The company was established by Richard "Dick" Stack in 1948, and has approximately 854 stores an ...

and

ULTA Beauty Ulta Beauty, Inc., formerly known as Ulta Salon, Cosmetics & Fragrance Inc. and before 2000 as Ulta3, is an American chain of beauty stores headquartered in Bolingbrook, Illinois. Ulta Beauty carries both high-end and low-end cosmetics, fragran ...

opened in October 2016 in the former JCPenney location.

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opened in the former Dixie Pottery location in March 2017. In May 2017, College Square Mall announced another redevelopment project which will add retailer Five Below to the front of the mall and an Olive Garden restaurant in front of DICK'S Sporting Goods fronting East Morris Boulevard. In 2018, the mall celebrated its 30th anniversary. In late 2018, Ashley HomeStore moved into where Goody's was previously located. Ashley closed in 2020 and Family Fun Zone opened in its place in late 2020.

References

External links

College Square Mall website
{{Knoxville area malls and shopping centers Buildings and structures in Hamblen County, Tennessee Morristown, Tennessee CBL Properties Shopping malls in Tennessee Shopping malls established in 1988 io:Morristown, Tennessee pt:Morristown (Tennessee)