Turtle Creek Mall is an enclosed

shopping mall A shopping mall (or simply mall) is a North American term for a large indoor shopping center, usually anchored by department stores. The term "mall" originally meant a pedestrian promenade with shops along it (that is, the term was used to refe ...

located in

Hattiesburg, Mississippi Hattiesburg is a city in the U.S. state of Mississippi, located primarily in Forrest County, Mississippi, Forrest County (where it is the county seat and largest city) and extending west into Lamar County, Mississippi, Lamar County. The city popu ...

, United States. Opened in 1994, its anchor stores are At Home,

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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, Belk, and Urban Planet. There is 1 vacant anchor store that was once Sears.

History

The first anchor stores that opened at Turtle Creek were

Gayfers Gayfer's was a regional department store chain in the southern United States. Based in Mobile, Alabama, the chain of stores operated from 1879 until 1998 when it was taken over by Dillard's. History C.J. Gayfer migrated to Mobile, Alabama, from ...

, and Goody's, all of which opened in October 1994. McRae's and

were added in 1995. By 1999, Turtle Creek was at 100 percent capacity. The Gayfers anchor was converted into a second McRae's location when Gayfers was bought out by Dillard's in 1998. Both were acquired by Belk in 2006, which consolidated all operations into the former Gayfers anchor in 2010. Goody's closed in 2009 and was converted into

Stein Mart Stein Mart was an American discount men's and women's department store chain based in Jacksonville, Florida. Stein Mart had locations primarily in the Southeast, Texas, and California. Stein Mart stores sold recent trends in clothing for both m ...

in 2011. In 2014, the Garden Ridge anchor store was rebranded into At Home. 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. 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. By 2023, the former Stein Mart location was occupied by an Urban Planet clothing store.

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