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Rock Hill Mall

Shopping mall

34°57′51″N 80°59′50″W / 34.96410°N 80.99722°W / 34.96410; -80.99722Opening date1968-08-21

Rock Hill Mall was an enclosed regional shopping mall located in Rock Hill, South Carolina. It opened in 1968.^[1] Most tenants, including all of its retail anchors, left the mall when the newer Rock Hill Galleria opened nearby in 1991. After the closure of the vast majority of the mall in the 1990s, nearly all of it sat vacant and decaying for almost a decade as a dead mall, until it was finally demolished in late 2006.^[2]

History

Rock Hill Mall opened for business on August 21, 1968. The mall was fairly well trafficked until the opening of nearby Rock Hill Galleria. When this happened, all of the active anchor tenants immediately left this mall to set up in the Galleria, and this mall's interior quickly closed, most of it sitting vacant and the decaying for several years. The Catawba Nation operated a Bingo hall in one of the former anchors through the early 2000s. The mall was finally demolished in late 2006, making way for a BI-LO supermarket, which became a Publix soon after.

References

^ Marks, John (2018-11-09). "Sears to say goodbye to Rock Hill Galleria, weeks after news of Kmart store closing". The Herald. Retrieved 2024-03-20.
^ Elkins, Ken. "Remaking an aging corridor; Demolition of old mall, plant buoys hopes for Rock Hill's Cherry Road", Charlotte Business Journal, November 20, 2006. Accessed March 28, 2024. "Demolition crews recently ripped away sections of the old Rock Hill Mall to make way for an $11 million shopping center on the mostly vacant Cherry Road site."