Northgate Mall, also called Northgate, is an enclosed

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in the

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suburb of Hixson. Opened on March 15, 1972, it was the second mall built in Chattanooga. Anchor stores are

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, and

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History

Northgate Mall was built in 1972 on land originally intended for a drive-in movie theater by a predecessor to

CBL & Associates Properties CBL Properties (previously CBL & Associates, Inc., then CBL & Associates Properties, Inc.) is an American real estate investment trust that invests in shopping centers, primarily in the Southeastern and Midwestern United States. The company is ...

(CBL), Arlen Shopping Center Group. The mall was considered the northside competition to now-defunct Eastgate Mall and is now considered a sister property of CBL's

Hamilton Place Mall Hamilton Place is an enclosed, two-story shopping mall in Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States, just off I-75. It was the largest shopping mall in the state of Tennessee from 1987 to 1998. History The mall opened to the public on August 5, 1987 ...

. Northgate was later sold by Arlen, being renovated in 1991 and 1997, and eventually ended up with

General Growth Properties GGP Inc. (an initialism of General Growth Properties) was an American commercial real estate company and the second-largest shopping mall operator in the United States. It was founded by brothers Martin, Matthew and Maurice Bucksbaum in Cedar Ra ...

(GGP) in 2000. After expanding Northgate between 2005 and 2008, GGP sold the mall to CBL for $11.5 million in September 2011. A 14-screen movie theater, owned by

, opened in 2005. A new food court was proposed to go in where the Book Gallery is located, but it was never built. in 2020, Hamilton County Schools proposed turning the old Sears into the new site of Chattanooga School for Liberal Arts, but the board voted against this. On April 13, 2009, a woman was killed after her car crashed into the

Sears Sears, Roebuck and Co. ( ), commonly known as Sears, is an American chain of department stores founded in 1892 by Richard Warren Sears and Alvah Curtis Roebuck and reincorporated in 1906 by Richard Sears and Julius Rosenwald, with what began a ...

building. The woman entered the Northgate Mall entrance from Highway 153. The vehicle jumped a curb and sped toward Sears, where it crashed into the southwest corner of the building. The crash left a hole in the wall of the shoe storage area of the department store. In early 2013, Northgate underwent a planned multimillion-dollar major renovation, including new flooring, ceiling and lighting upgrades, and repainting, which were completed by Christmas 2013. A associated center, which is located directly across from Northgate's main entrance and has

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and added

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, Michael's Arts & Crafts, and a brand-new facade in a related renovation, which was completed by the fall of 2013. In June 2013,

announced plans to move to Northgate. In January 2014,

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 ...

announced plans to close its Northgate store in June. On November 8, 2018, it was announced that Sears would close this location in early 2019 as part of a plan to close 40 stores.

References

External links

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