100 Oaks Mall Explained

100 Oaks Mall (sometimes written out as One Hundred Oaks Mall) is a shopping mall located three miles south of downtown Nashville, Tennessee along Interstate 65 and Tennessee State Route 155. Neighborhoods and cities around the area include Berry Hill, Woodbine and Oak Hill.[1]

History

The mall was Nashville's second enclosed shopping area, originally opening on October 27, 1967, after Harding Mall opened two years before.[2] Original tenants included Penneys, Woolco and Harveys. Woolco closed in 1983,[3] although Burlington Coat Factory would open in the former space that November.[4] JCPenney closed in January 1986, furthering a slow decline for 100 Oaks,[5] and the mall was purchased by Belz Enterprises later in the year. In September 1991, Belz closed 100 Oaks' interior mall space, allowing tenants with outside entrances to stay open. Morrison's Cafeteria closed its 100 Oaks location a month later due to declining business and mall tenancy.

Belz Enterprises re-developed the center between 1995 and 1996 as an outlet mall, introducing big-box stores such as Michaels, Media Play, and TJ Maxx.[1] Following an extensive renovation in 2008, the bottom floor of the mall remains open for retail, with major tenants including hhgregg (now defunct),[6] Kirkland's,[7] Electronic Express,[8] and PetSmart.[9] The upper floor and office building are now used for medical clinics and administrative offices operated by Vanderbilt University Medical Center.[10] [11] Tennessee's largest movie theater, the Regal Cinemas Hollywood 27, is located next to the mall.

Legacy

The mall in 2001 was used as a setting in the music video for country singer Alecia Elliott's "You Wanna What?"

References

Official Website

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Chain Store Age. 1995. Lebhar-Friedman, Incorporated.
  2. Web site: Lost Nashville: The original Hundred Oaks Mall and its second rebirth before Vanderbilt . . . October 29, 2021.
  3. Web site: K&G taking over Saks space at 100 Oaks Mall - Nashville Business Journal. bizjournals.com. 2014-10-24.
  4. Book: Consumers Digest. 1985. v. 24-25. Consumers Digest, inc.. 0010-7182. 2014-10-24.
  5. Book: ULI Market Profiles. Urban Land Institute. 1988. Urban Land Institute. 0894-6108. 2014-10-24.
  6. Web site: hhgregg 100 Oaks. hhgregg.com. 29 September 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160929063945/http://www.hhgregg.com/store-locations/Nashville-TN-0031. 2016-09-29. dead.
  7. Web site: 100 OAKS MALL Kirkland's. kirklands.com. 29 September 2016.
  8. Web site: Store Locations Middle Tennessee. electronicexpress.com. 29 September 2016.
  9. Web site: PetSmart in Nashville, Tenn. petsmart.com. 29 September 2016.
  10. Web site: Vanderbilt Health: Hospitals, Doctors, Clinics and Medical Services in Nashville, TN . VUMC Web Development Team. vanderbilthealth.com. 2015-06-13.
  11. Urban Land. Urban Land Institute. Urban Land Europe. 2010. 69. Urban Land Institute. 0042-0891. 2014-10-24.