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Friendly Center is a large, open-air mall located in northwestern Greensboro, North Carolina, near the interchange of Wendover Avenue and Friendly Avenue. The anchor stores at Friendly Center are Belk , Macy's and Harris Teeter .
Four Seasons Town Centre is a three-story shopping mall in Greensboro, North Carolina.Opened in 1974, it was the first enclosed shopping center in Greensboro. Currently it is anchored by Dillard's and JCPenney and it is the only indoor shopping mall within Greensboro's city limits; however, nearby Friendly Center, an outdoor shopping plaza, has many of the same tenants.
Belk opened its doors in February 1976, and Montgomery Ward's, Ivey's and twenty-two other stores opened in August of that year. It was Ivey's first department store in Greensboro. The mall encompassed 800,000 sq ft (74,000 m 2). Carolina Circle Mall also featured the only ice skating rink in Greensboro, located in the central corridor of the mall.
The original mall, the north wing, was opened in 1975 with Belk, JCPenney and Sears.In 1990, a new wing was built, expanding the mall southward to include Ivey's (this store was signed as Ivey's but, due to an acquisition by the parent company, opened as Dillard's), Thalhimer's (converted to Hecht's in 1992, and to Macy's in 2006) and a new food court.
Construction of the freeway began in May 1974, nine months before the mall opened on February 26, 1975. The mall opened with five anchors, three of which moved from downtown Fayetteville: Sears, Belk, and JCPenney; Miller & Rhoads and Thalhimer's, were new to the area. The mall also had a three screen movie theater named Cross Creek Mall ...
Belk was founded in 1888 by William Henry Belk in Monroe, North Carolina, outside Charlotte. The store was first called New York Racket and then Belk Brothers, after Belk made his brother, physician John Belk, his partner. [3] Belk bought in volume to pass savings on and sold at fixed prices, then a relatively unusual practice. [4]
Alamance Crossing opened its first phase on August 1, 2007. Its first two anchors were Belk and JCPenney, both of which relocated from existing stores at the smaller Burlington Square Mall, (now Holly Hill Mall) the town's existing shopping center. [2] [3] Hobby Lobby was added in 2008. [4]
Before the construction of Truist Stadium, North Carolina A&T Aggies played their home football games at Greensboro's War Memorial Stadium, which was also home to Greensboro's minor league baseball franchise. The university saw a great need to have an on campus stadium that could hold the growing number of fans attending home football games.