Columbus Place, formerly Leigh Mall, is a shopping mall in Columbus, Mississippi, United States,[2] constructed in 1973 and marketed by Sterling Properties. The anchor stores[when?] were Dollar Tree, Hobby Lobby, Planet Fitness, and Burke's Outlet,[1] with a vacant anchor store that was once JCPenney. In 2019 it was purchased at auction for US$3.5 million by the Hull Property Group, which after much demolition and rebuilding renamed it Columbus Place in 2023.[3]
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| Location | Columbus, Mississippi, U.S. |
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| Coordinates | 33°30′42″N 88°25′53″W / 33.5116°N 88.4314°W |
| Address | 1404 Old Aberdeen Rd. |
| Opening date | 1973 |
| Developer | Jim Wilson & Associates |
| Owner | Colony Financial |
| No. of stores and services | 30+ |
| No. of anchor tenants | 6 (5 open, 1 vacant) |
| Total retail floor area | 319,384 square feet (29,671.7 m2)[1] |
| No. of floors | 1 |
History
editLeigh Mall was built in 1973 by Jim Wilson & Associates and sold to Equitable Real Estate in 1987.[4] J. C. Penney and Sears were the original anchor stores.[1]
Sears closed in 2012 and became Hobby Lobby one year later.[5] J. C. Penney closed in 2017.[6] The mall was sold at auction in 2019, at which point it was about 57 percent occupied.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b c d "Leigh Mall auction begins today". The Dispatch. October 15, 2019. Retrieved January 29, 2020.
- ^ "Leigh Mall under pressure to repave". The Dispatch. 27 April 2015. Retrieved 10 January 2016.
- ^ McLaughlin, Grant (27 April 2023). "Goodbye Leigh Mall; hello Columbus Place". The Dispatch.
- ^ "Investment group buys 2 north Mississippi malls". Clarion Ledger. March 24, 1987. pp. 8B. Retrieved January 29, 2020.
- ^ "Leigh Mall welcoming a new tenant". WCBI. December 18, 2013. Retrieved January 29, 2020.
- ^ "5 Miss. JCPenney stores to close". Clarion Ledger. March 17, 2017. Retrieved January 29, 2020.