BLUE RIDGE MALL was never expanded beyond the parameters of its early '70s remodeling. Stores came and went over the years. A vacant J.J. Newberry was reconfigured as a North Court section in 1980. This featured a small Food Court on the Mall Level and multiplex cinema and Spaceport video arcade in the basement. A face lift was performed in the mid-1990s, when the sign seen above was erected.