Inlet Square Mall

Inlet Square Mall
Location Murrells Inlet, South Carolina, USA
Opening date 1980
Management Brooke Doswell
Owner Urban Retail Properties
No. of stores and services 12
No. of anchor tenants 4
No. of floors 1
Website http://www.inletsquaremall.com

Inlet Square Mall is a 434,482-square-foot (40,364.7 m2) single-level regional shopping center in Murrells Inlet. Its anchor stores include Belk, Bath & Body Works, Planet Fitness, and Books-A-Million.

After the opening of a Walmart Supercenter in nearby Garden City, Kmart closed in late April 2014.[1] On January 7, 2015, it was announced that the one of the mall's two main anchor stores, J.C. Penney, would be closing in March of the same year.[2] A Planet Fitness opened in place of the former Ladies Choice fitness center in May 2015.[3] The mall's Stein Mart location closed in September 2015[4] to relocate it to the South Strand Commons shopping center in Myrtle Beach which opened in October 2015.[5]

Anchors

Former Anchors

Reconstruction

F + F Development began reconstruction on the mall in 2012 in an attempt to make it similar to the popular outdoor shopping center Broadway at the Beach. The construction caused F + F Development to go into bankruptcy, and Urban Retail Properties purchased the mall in late 2014.

History

Inlet Square was built in 1980 by CBL Properties. It was the areas largest mall, just slightly larger than the now demolished Myrtle Square Mall. It held the title of the Grand Strand's largest mall until 1986, when Myrtle Beach Mall was opened. Even still, Inlet Square proved to be quite profitable. The mall was bought in the early 2000s. It was originally going to be redesigned similarly to the successful Broadway at the Beach. With those plans falling through, a $4.5 million remodeling project began in 2007. The first renovation in the mall's history, and much needed since the massive 1,300,000 square foot Coastal Grand Mall opened in 2004. The renovations didn't become complete until 2011 due to financial hardships and loss of foot traffic. During this time, the mall lost most of its long time tenants including the 12 screen Regal Cinemas in 2010. In 2011, Franks Cinebowl and Grill opened a new complex in the former Regal Cinemas bringing new life to the mall. In 2014, the mall lost Kmart, which opened with the original mall in 1980, and also gained a Planet Fitness location in the former Ladies Choice location. In 2015, the mall also was hit with two more tenant losses with the closures of JC Penney and Stein Mart.

In May 2016, the Frank Theatres location closed suddenly with no notice to the public.[6] This leaves Belk, Planet Fitness, Bath & Body Works, and Books-A-Million as the only anchor tenants left in the mall.

References

  1. ↑ http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/2014/02/10/4016496/kmart-closing-store-in-murrells.html
  2. ↑ http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/2015/01/07/4711827/jc-penney-to-close-store-in-inlet.html?sp=/99/209/&ihp=1
  3. ↑ http://www.wmbfnews.com/story/27432505/planet-fitness-to-open-at-inlet-square-mall
  4. ↑ "South Strand job fair Thursday, revitalization plans for the future". www.wmbfnews.com. Retrieved 2015-10-30.
  5. ↑ "Newly opened Stein Mart brings more growth to South Strand". www.wmbfnews.com. Retrieved 2015-10-30.
  6. ↑ http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/news/business/article77876357.html

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