Arbor Place Mall

Arbor Place Mall, the only regional mall directly serving the western suburbs of Atlanta, is located in Douglasville, Georgia, in Douglas County. Like Mall of Georgia in Buford, which is also Georgia's largest mall, the mall opened in 1999. Its anchors are Dillard's, Regal Cinemas, Belk, JCPenney and Macy's.
== History ==
Arbor Place Mall opened on October 13, 1999 with Dillard's, Parisian, Sears, Regal Cinemas and Upton's. The Upton's chain folded prior to the opening of the mall, but the contract to build the store was still completed, resulting in a vacant anchor when the mall opened. A home improvement chain named Dekor took over the Upton's site in 2000. The chain folded in 2001 and once again left the mall with a vacant anchor space. In 2003, JCPenney took over the site.
In 2000, Olive Garden opened outside the mall.
The two-level mall has been very successful and was the first to bring upscale shopping to an underserved area. Shoppers previously had to travel long distances to other Atlanta area malls. Rich's, long planned to open at the mall, finally opened as Rich's-Macy's in 2004, one of only two stores signed with the hyphen. In 2005, the Rich's name was dropped, and became just Macy's. Parisian closed its store in September 2007 and it is bought out by Belk. Belk took over the Parisian store on late of 2007. Arbor Place Mall was built by and is still owned by CBL & Associates.
Along with this, Arbor Place Mall enforces a youth escort policy, known as YEP, stating youths under 17 must be accompanied by an adult on Friday and Saturday nights after 6:00pm. This applied to the entire mall and is strictly enforced.
On November 7, 2019, Sears announced the closure of the Arbor Place Mall location. The store closed February 2020.
On June 4, 2020, JCPenney announced the closure of the Arbor Place Mall location, along with 241 other locations, but was later announced the location would not be closing.
In December 2020, Bed Bath Beyond closed at Arbor Place Mall, now leaving 2 vacant anchor stores (along with the former Sears).
In February 2023, Belk closed its Arbor Place Mall location to undergo conversion into a 1-floor Belk Outlet store. The grand opening of the outlet took place on April 8th. Simultaneously, on April 23rd, Conn’s Home Plus partially opened inside the Former Sears at Arbor Place Mall, providing mall entrance access for customers.
In April, 2024 Conn’s Home Plus filled for bankruptcy and is closing all its locations, including its Arbor Place location.
== Shooting ==
On Monday, November 26, 2007, there was a shooting incident inside Arbor Place Mall, stemming from the attempted robbery of an armed Brinks guard. Two people—the Brinks guard and the robbery suspect-were shot. The shooting resulted in a bullet being shot through a food court window, located on the north side, front entrance of the mall structure.
== Anchors ==
=== Current ===
* Dillard's
* Belk
* Macy's
* JCPenney 
* Regal Cinemas
=== Former ===
* Bed Bath & Beyond
* Sears
* Parisian (Became Belk's)
* Rich's (Became Rich's - Macy's) Then Macy's
* Upton's
* Dekor
== See also ==
* Douglasville Marketplace
* Douglasville Pavilion
* Douglasville Crossroads
* Mall of Georgia
== Gallery ==
=== Videos ===
File:Schindler Hydraulic Elevator at Arbor Place Mall in Douglasville, GA|The Glass Elevator
File:Schindler MT 300A Hydraulic Elevator - Arbor Place Mall - Douglasville, GA|The Internal Elevator
File:Golden Schindler MT Hydraulic Elevator At Dillard’s Arbor Place Mall In Douglasville, GA|The Dillard's Elevator
File:Montgomery Kone Hydraulic Elevator At Belk Arbor Place Mall In Douglasville, GA|The Belk Elevator
File:Sears Closing (Arbor Place Mall)- Douglasville, GA|Sears Closing Tour
== External Links ==
Arbor Place Mall's Official WebsiteCategory:Malls in Georgia
Category:Shopping Malls
Category:Malls in the United States
Category:Multi-Level Malls
Category:CBL Malls
Category:Malls that opened in 1999
Category:Former Sears-anchored Malls
Category:Macy's-anchored Malls
Category:Regal Cinemas-anchored Malls
Category:Dillard's-anchored Malls
Category:Belk Outlet-anchored Malls
Category:Former Belk-anchored Malls
Category:Former Bed Bath & Beyond-anchored Malls
Category:JCPenney-anchored Malls