Welcome to the largest mall and retail history site on the internet. The MALL HALL OF FAME is a vintage shopping mall scrapbook. Its focus is on shopping complexes built -in the USA- between 1946 and 1979. Don't forget to visit our four Shopping Mall Memory Lanes, which transport you through time to a mall in 1956, 1963, 1970 and 1977!

Sears anchored the north end of ASHEVILLE MALL for over 44 years. The store shut down in July 2018. An open-air plaza was envisaged that would have replaced the abandoned store with retail, a state-of-the-art cinema and 6-story residential complex. This plan was abandoned during the bankruptcy of mall owner CBL Properties, in 2020.
Drawing from Seritage Growth Properties