The Streets at Southpoint

The Streets at Southpoint is a super-regional shopping mall located in southern Durham, North Carolina, at Interstate 40 and Fayetteville Road. The mall opened in 2002, and has 1,330,000 square feet of leasable area, and is anchored by Belk, J. C. Penney, Sears, Macy's and the first Nordstrom store in the state. Additionally, the center is known for being the first in North Carolina to incorporate an "outdoor village concept" when it opened, better known as "Main Street." This section of the mall includes Barnes & Noble, an Apple Store, Urban Outfitters, a movie theater and a Crate and Barrel store that relocated from Crabtree Valley Mall in 2011. Additionally, restaurants such as The Cheesecake Factory and Maggiano's Little Italy can be found in the "Main Street" section of Southpoint.

Southpoint's opening led to the demise of the first enclosed mall in Durham across town, South Square Mall. Once The Streets at Southpoint opened, Belk and J.C. Penney closed their locations at South Square Mall, as did many other tenants, and they relocated to Southpoint. Belk went further by closing its store at Northern Durham's Northgate Mall and University Mall in Chapel Hill, consolidating all three of their older Durham/Chapel Hill stores into one Belk store at Southpoint.

The mall is a popular destination for the entire Research Triangle, as it is the closest major mall to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Duke University, and North Carolina Central University as well as many affluent communities. The mall has spurred development in the entire area, creating big box power centers and new housing and apartment communities.

Anchors^[2]

• Belk (179,729 sq ft (16,697.4 m²) Signed as Hudson Belk until 2010)
• J.C. Penney (102,654 sq ft (9,536.9 m²)
• Macy's (180,000 sq ft (17,000 m²)., formerly Hecht's until 2006)
• Nordstrom (144,000 sq ft (13,400 m²))
• Sears (119,964 sq ft (11,145.0 m²))

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