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Opening date
  
1968

No. of floors
  
1 (anchors had 2)

Total retail floor area
  
5 ha

No. of anchor tenants
  
3 (former)

Opened
  
1968

Number of anchor tenants
  
3 (former)

Location
  
Greenville, South Carolina, United States

Address
  
225 S Pleasantburg Dr, Greenville, SC 29607, USA

Similar
  
Charles Towne Square, Haywood Mall, Magnolia Park Town Center, Ashley Landing, Prince of Orange Mall

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McAlister Square is a repositioned shopping mall in Greenville, South Carolina. It is a hybrid property, containing a campus of Greenville Technical College.

Contents

The mall opened in 1968, featuring anchor stores Ivey's and Meyers-Arnold. A Belk-Simpson department store was added in 1974, bringing the mall to approximately 500,000 square feet (46,000 m2) of leasable space. A Winn-Dixie grocery store, movie theater and bank branch were outparcels.

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Decline

In 1990, the Ivey's store was converted into a Dillard's, and the store closed in 1995, when Dillard's relocated to Haywood Mall. The Belk-Simpson store closed in 1999. The Upton's anchor, which had replaced the Meyers-Arnold store, closed shortly thereafter.

Current use

The mall is owned by Greenville Technical College and the University Center of Greenville. While little of the space in the main mall continues to be used as retail space, the outparcels consist of a Publix grocery store, a Camelot movie theater, a BB&T bank branch and other retailers. The world's first freestanding Chick-fil-A, which opened in the 1990s when the mall also had a Chick-fil-A at center court, is still in business along Laurens Road. The mall has been repainted and re-landscaped since its transformation into a mixed-use center.

References

McAlister Square Wikipedia