Cary Towne Center

Cary Towne Center was a closed indoor shopping mall in Cary, North Carolina managed by Turnbridge Equities and Denali Properties. It first opened on February 21, 1979. It closed on January 31, 2021. It was later acquired and is now owned by Epic Games. 
 
== Early History ==
Originally the Cary Village Mall, concepts for the shopping center were originally planned in 1972 with the developers Seby Jones and J.W. York and estimated to cost $25 mil. Though during planning the "Citizens for the Better Direction of Cary" were worried about increased traffic it would bring to the area as well as the property's proximity to Cary High School, Henry Adams School, and East Cary School. The group hired an attorney and pressured the town council to closely monitor the development causing York to complain that everything had to be approved "10 times” 
Cary Village Mall opened on February 21, 1979, with 325,000 square feet (30,200 m2) of retail space anchored by Ivey's and Hudson Belk (now Belk) as well as buildings occupied by Big Star Markets (later Harris Teeter). 
Category:Indoor Malls
Category:Shopping Malls
Category:Malls in the United States
Category:Malls in North Carolina
Category:Defunct malls
Category:Dead Malls
Category:Abandoned malls
Category:Malls that opened in 1979