Parkway Place
Parkway Place offers shoppers of the Tennessee Valley several stores that are unique to the Huntsville market, including, Torrid, Build-A-Bear Workshop, American Eagle/Aerie, and Chico's. The mall has over 2,800 free parking spaces (including the parking deck) and seats 400 people in the food court.
Parkway Place is owned by CBL & Associates Properties, Inc.
History
The original Parkway Shopping Center opened in 1957 as an open-air strip mall with 25 stores, with seven more stores added two years later. Two major events in the shopping complex's history occurred in 1974. First, the mall was acquired by Arlen Real Estate (which later became CBL), and a tornado destroyed the south end of the center. In February 1976, the shopping complex was re-opened as Parkway City Mall, a single-level enclosed mall, with Pizitz (later purchased by McRae's), Montgomery Ward and Parisian as anchors. The mall was opened with 467,000 square feet (43,400 m), and was expanded in 1984 and 1994. It was Huntsville's largest shopping center until Madison Square Mall opened in 1984. Plans began in 1998 to redevelop the location. The mall was already losing stores, and, in 2001, the Montgomery Ward chain closed all of its retail stores, costing the shopping complex one of its three anchors. The demolition of Parkway City Mall and 2002 construction of Parkway Place were completed in stages so as to allow the greatest possible open time for Piccadilly Cafeteria, one of the major remaining businesses at the time of the demolition. In January 2007, an expansion to the mall began, enlarging the anchor spot used by Parisian as it redeveloped into a Belk store. Parisian was then renamed Belk on September 12, 2007.
Anchor stores
Former anchors
- Parisian (sold to Belk in 2007)
References
- ^ "CBL : Parkway Place : Fact Sheet". Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved March 28, 2013.
- ^ "Dillard's and Parisian Announced as Anchor Stores for Parkway Place Redevelopment". Business Wire. April 12, 2000.
- ^ Shopping Centers Today Archived 2007-09-30 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Mall Hall Of Fame