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Castner Knott was a
Castner Knott
reunion website, with details on history from former employees and vendors Defunct department stores based in Tennessee Retail companies established in 1898 Companies based in Nashville, Tennessee Retail companies disestablished in 1998 Defunct companies based in Tennessee 1898 establishments in Tennessee 1998 disestablishments in Tennessee {{US-retail-company-stub
Castner Knott was a Nashville, Tennessee
Nashville, often known as Music City, is the capital and List of municipalities in Tennessee, most populous city in the U.S. state of Tennessee. It is the county seat, seat of Davidson County, Tennessee, Davidson County in Middle Tennessee, locat ...
-based regional department store
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chain which operated stores in Alabama
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, Kentucky
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, and Tennessee
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. The chain was in business for a century
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from 1898 to 1998, in its later years as a division of Mercantile Stores Company.
Castner Knott's historic flagship location on Nashville's Church Street closed in 1996, while the remaining stores were among those sold to Little Rock, Arkansas
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-based Dillard's
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, when it acquired Mercantile in 1998. The five high-volume mall stores ( Bellevue Center, CoolSprings Galleria, Hickory Hollow Mall, The Mall at Green Hills and Rivergate Mall
Rivergate Mall is a super-regional shopping mall located in Goodlettsville, Tennessee, United States, just outside of Nashville, Tennessee, Nashville, the List of capitals in the United States, state capital of Tennessee. Opened in October 1971 ...
) in the greater Nashville area, where Dillard's already had locations, were sold to Saks Incorporated and rebranded as Proffitt's
Proffitt's was a department store chain based in Alcoa, Tennessee. The chain was founded in 1919 by David W. Proffitt and James Ellis. In 2006, the Proffitt's and McRae's stores were converted into Belk after Belk had acquired the two chains in ...
. The stores were then sold in 2001 to May Company, who, in turn, rebranded these locations as Hecht's
Hecht's was an American department store chain founded in 1857 by Samuel Hecht, Jr. It was headquartered in Washington, D.C., and operated in the Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic and Southern United States. The family business was acqui ...
. In 2006, those stores were converted to the Macy's
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name as a result of the May Company-Federated Department Stores
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merger. Macy's would eventually close the Bellevue Center and Hickory Hollow Mall locations, following the decline of those malls as a whole.
The original Castner-Knott Company building, located in downtown Nashville, was sold to Shmerling Clearbrook Holdings in the late 1990s for roughly $1.5 million. On February 3, 2020, the building and adjoining parking garage was sold to a New York real estate firm for $27.2 million.
See also
*List of department stores converted to Macy's
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* List of defunct department stores of the United States
This is a list of defunct department stores of the United States, from small-town one-unit stores to mega-chains, which have disappeared over the past 100 years. Many closed, while others were sold or merged with other department stores.
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Castner Knott
reunion website, with details on history from former employees and vendors Defunct department stores based in Tennessee Retail companies established in 1898 Companies based in Nashville, Tennessee Retail companies disestablished in 1998 Defunct companies based in Tennessee 1898 establishments in Tennessee 1998 disestablishments in Tennessee {{US-retail-company-stub