Arbor Place Mall

Arbor Place Mall
Location Douglasville, Georgia, USA
Address 6700 Douglas Boulevard
Opening date October 13, 1999
Management CBL & Associates
Owner CBL & Associates
No. of stores and services 140[1]
No. of anchor tenants 5
Total retail floor area 1,176,454 sq ft (109,296 m2)[1]
No. of floors 2
Parking 6,000+
Website www.arborplace.com

Arbor Place Mall, the only regional mall directly serving the growing western suburbs of Atlanta, is located in Douglasville, Georgia, in Douglas County. Opened in October 1999, the mall was originally to be anchored by Dillard's, Parisian, Sears, and Upton's. The Upton's chain folded prior to the opening of the mall, but the contract to build the store was still completed, resulting in a vacant anchor when the mall opened. A home improvement chain named Dekor took over the Upton's site in 2000. The chain folded in 2001 and once again left the mall with a vacant anchor space. In 2003, JCPenney took over the site.

The two-level mall has been very successful and was the first to bring upscale shopping to an underserved area. Shoppers previously had to travel long distances to other Atlanta area malls. Rich's, long planned to open at the mall, finally opened as Rich's-Macy's in 2004, one of only two stores signed with the hyphen. In 2005 the Rich's name was dropped, and became just Macy's. Arbor Place Mall was built by and is still owned by CBL & Associates.

Anchors

Along with this, Arbor Place Mall enforces a youth escort policy, known as YEP, stating youths under 17 must be accompanied by an adult on Friday and Saturday nights after 6:00pm. This applied to the entire mall and is strictly enforced.

Major Tenants

Former anchors

News

November 26, 2007 Shooting

On Monday, November 26, 2007, there was a shooting incident inside Arbor Place Mall, stemming from the attempted robbery of an armed Brinks guard. Two people—the Brinks guard and the robbery suspect-were shot. The shooting resulted in a bullet being shot through a food court window, located on the north side, front entrance of the mall structure. [2]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Arbor Place". CBL & Associates Properties, Inc. Retrieved 2011-01-19.
  2. Jones, Winston (November 2007). "Suspect, guard wounded in Arbor Place shooting". Douglas County Sentinel.

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Coordinates: 33°43′42″N 84°44′45″W / 33.728250°N 84.745850°W