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22: 89: 335:, which opened in 1976 with the mall and relocated to a newly constructed building on an outparcel at the mall after the mall was demolished, closed suddenly on July 22, 2012, and the building was sold to Cowboy Brazilian Steakhouse. The former mall site has been redeveloped as an office complex, with a 330:
The subsequent bankruptcy of Montgomery Ward in 2000 also dealt the project a final blow. The store ultimately closed in 2001 and was later converted to office space, with Montgomery Ward's free-standing auto center converted to an art gallery that relocated from inside the mall and later would
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In April 2019, the 18-screen Regal Cinemas was proposed to be demolished for a 300 residential unit complex. As of February 2020, the demolition has wrapped up and the site of the cinema is being prepared for redevelopment.
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The mall's large "town square" style clock was donated to the City of North Charleston upon the mall's closing and placed in storage. It was recently refurbished and added to the food court of the nearby newly opened
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call center operating in the former Ward's building and a new multi-story office tower near Piccadilly which houses the new City Hall for the City of North Charleston.
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become a restaurant and daycare. The only remaining original tenant from its days as a mall,
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hotel; however, plans for the big box retailers and other shops never materialized.
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and surrounded by a few smaller shops. The mall was demolished and an 18-screen
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Catalog Showrooms moved into the space. The Wilson's chain was later sold to
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The main road where the mall was located is still is called Mall Drive.
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and Edward's, a local department store which would later be sold to
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Changing economic conditions spurred by the closure of the nearby
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Buildings and structures in Charleston County, South Carolina
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and renamed "Big K-Edwards." Big K-Edwards closed and
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Demolished buildings and structures in South Carolina
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North Charleston, South Carolina
Coordinates
32°52′38″N 80°0′41″W / 32.87722°N 80.01139°W / 32.87722; -80.01139
Melvin Simon & Associates
WP Glimcher
anchor tenants
Total retail floor area
North Charleston, South Carolina
Melvin Simon & Associates
Montgomery Ward
JCPenney
Kuhn's-Big K
Wilson's
Service Merchandise
General Cinemas
Ed McMahon
American Revolutionary War
World War II
Mark Clark
Rosey Grier
Claude Akins
Charleston Naval Base
JCPenney
Northwoods Mall

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