India's Shopping mall
Indian Mall was an enclosed shopping mall located at the Highland Drive-Caraway Road intersection in Jonesboro, Arkansas, United States. It was located just north of the junction of Interstate 555 and Arkansas Highway 1.
For more than thirty years, Indian Mall was the only shopping center serving Northeast Arkansas. The nearby opening of The Mall at Turtle Creek in 2006 drew many tenants away from Indian Mall, including the Dillard's and JCPenney anchors. Indian Mall then became a dead mall, losing all of its tenants except for Sears, an insurance office and a GameStop
which remained for close to two years. As of February 2008, the mall
has been closed off except for Sears, and will be redeveloped.
The Dillard's Clearance Center has closed.
Indian Mall opened in 1968
as a shopping destination for Jonesboro and northeastern Arkansas. It
was also the second mall in the state (the first being Phoenix Village
Mall in Fort Smith). Indian Mall derived its name from the name of nearby Arkansas State University's mascot.
The mall first opened as a small shopping center with Blass (a chain owned by Dillard's; the store was later re-branded Dillard's), TG&Y, Sears,
and a supermarket called Stimson's. The mall sustained heavy damage
during a series of tornadoes that struck the city on May 27, 1973. J. C. Penney
was added in 1976. TG&Y closed in the 1980s; Dillard's then moved
its men's wear and home goods to the former TG&Y space. The
supermarket space was converted to a food court in the 1980s as well.
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