Mall at Green Hills

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The Mall at Green Hills

Location	Hillsboro Road 1 mile from I-440 , *Nashville, TN , USA
Management	Davis Street Land Company
Owner	Davis Street Land Company
No. of stores and services	100 stores
No. of anchor tenants	2
Total retail floor area	825,000 square feet (GLA)
No. of floors	1
Website	www.themallatgreenhills.com

The Mall at Green Hills is a regional shopping mall in the upscale Green Hills commercial and residential district of Nashville. It has over 100 stores on two floors totaling 825,000 square feet.

1 History
2 Anchors
3 Notable Stores
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] History

The mall has undergone several renovations and expansions over the past 50 years. Green Hills Shopping Center opened in the early 1950s and originally operated as an open-air strip mall. In the late 1960s, a Castner Knott store opened along with a newly-constructed, yet small, enclosed area. Cain-Sloan (which became Dillard's in 1987) also opened a stand-alone store at the west end of the mall.

Through the late 1980s and early 1990s, the mall's largest expansion to date was constructed, connecting it to Dillard's and adding a food court adjacent to Castner Knott. The food court's restaurants failed to attract substantial business, and the area was eventually converted into more shops after all the restaurants vacated.

In 1998, a new development emerged adjacent to the mall, including a health club and a Regal Cinemas 16-screen megaplex. Regal also opened an indoor amusement park, "FunScape", which closed in 2000 when Regal pulled the plug on the concept. That space was converted into offices. The health club, named The Club, closed in 2007.

A new Hecht's store was built in 2004 adjacent to the former food court, allowing the former department store building to be demolished for another mall expansion. The new space opened in 2005 and featured more mall space and the return of junior anchor Davis-Kidd Booksellers, which left the mall for a nearby building in 1986.

A brand new Nordstrom store, Tennessee's first, will open in 2010 next to Dillard's at the mall's main entrance facing Abbott Martin Road. Before construction of Nordstrom begins, two new levels will be added to the existing parking garage beginning in early 2009.