Governor's Square Mall is an enclosed shopping mall in Clarksville, Tennessee, United States, serving the Clarksville metropolitan area. It is owned by the Cafaro Company. Its

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s are Burlington,

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 ...

, Ross Dress For Less, JCPenney, Belk, Old Navy, and

Dillard's Dillard's, Inc. is an upscale American department store chain with approximately 282 stores in 29 states and headquartered in Little Rock, Arkansas. Currently, the largest number of stores are located in Texas with 57 and Florida with 42. The ...

. The mall contains over 100 stores and restaurants across of space.

History

Plans for the mall were announced by the Youngstown, Ohio-based Cafaro Company in 1985, with an estimated construction cost of $40 million. Governor's Square Mall opened in October 1986, with a total cost of $50 million. At the time of its opening, the area around Exit 4 on Interstate 24 was largely undeveloped. The mall is now the center of the retail and commercial district for the Clarksville area. By August 1987, the mall had 66 tenants, with JCPenney, Sears, and Snyder's as the three anchor stores. Occupancy at the mall reached 92 percent by 1990, with a total of 98 stores. In 1994,

announced plans to open a store at the Governor's Square Mall. An original anchor Snyder's (later Hess's) was split between Borders Books & Music 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 ...

. After Goody's closed, it became

. A

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was also added. Borders closed in 2011 and became Ross Dress for Less in 2013. On October 15, 2018, it was announced that Sears would be closing as part of a plan to close 142 stores nationwide. Burlington opened a store at the former Sears location in September 2021.

References

External links

Official website
Shopping malls in Tennessee Shopping malls established in 1986 Buildings and structures in Clarksville, Tennessee Cafaro Company 1986 establishments in Tennessee {{US-mall-stub