Mall of Louisiana

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Mall of Louisiana
Mall facts and statistics
Opening date	1997
Developer	Jim Wilson & Associates
Management	General Growth Properties
Owner	General Growth Properties
No. of stores and services	155 [1]
No. of anchor tenants	4
No. of floors	2
Website	malloflouisiana.com

Mall of Louisiana is a shopping mall in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and is located between I-10 and Bluebonnet Blvd.

Built in 1997 by developer Jim Wilson & Associates, it is one of the largest malls in Louisiana and is currently owned and managed by General Growth Properties. It contains the second largest indoor carousel in the world, and the only indoor carousel that is located in a mall. The architects are Crawford McWilliams Hatcher Architects, Inc. (CMH). [2]

Rave Motion Pictures opened a sixteen screen movie theater adjacent to the mall in 2006.

[edit] Anchor Tenants

• Dillard's
  • Dillard's Men's, Children's & Home (160,000 sq. ft., formerly McRae's)
  • Dillard's Women's (212,507 sq. ft.)
• JCPenney (124,656 sq. ft.)
• Macy's (opened 1997 as Maison Blanche, renamed Parisian in 1998, Foley's in 2001, Macy's 2006; 211,000 sq. ft.)
• Sears
  • Sears (121,418 sq. ft.)
  • Sears Tire, Battery & Auto (10,026 sq. ft. outparcel)

[edit] External links

• Crawford McWilliams Hatcher Architects, Inc. Homepage [3]
• Official site.
• Real Estate Alert, March 3, 2004 - A bidding war is under way for Mall of Louisiana
• Business Wire, August 18, 2005: Dillard's, Inc. Purchases McRae's Store at The Mall of Louisiana from Belk
• General Growth Properties, Inc. - Mall of Louisiana
• Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development: DOTD, James Construction sign agreement to finish Picardy project by December 2006. Construction of an I-10 crossover that will serve as the main entrance to the Mall of Louisiana.