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Owner || General Growth Properties |- style="vertical-align: top;" | No. of stores and services || 150 |- style="vertical-align: top;" | No. of anchor tenants || 4 |- style="vertical-align: top;" | Total retail floor area || 948,000 square feet (GLA) |- style="vertical-align: top;" | Parking || |- style="vertical=align: top;" | No. of floors || 1 |- style="vertical=align: top;" | Website || |}

Oglethorpe Mall is a super-regional shopping mall on the Southside of Savannah, Georgia, at 1 million square feet. It is named after General James Oglethorpe, the founder of Savannah. This mall features several restaurants like Johnny Rockets, Romano's Macaroni Grill, and Piccadilly Cafeteria. There is an 11 unit food court featuring vendors such as Sbarro, Cinnabon, and Great Wraps. Currently their are approximately 150 stores and kiosks. The anchors are Belk, JC Penney, Macy's (formerly Rich's) and Sears. Oglethorpe Mall, the oldest mall in Savannah, was considered obsolete and mostly written-off by most consumers when Savannah Mall opened in 1990. Now almost two decades after Savannah Mall opened, Oglethorpe Mall, thirty-seven years after its opening, has become the premiere shopping mall experience in Savannah, with a varied array of stores and eateries resulting in a pleasant and vibrant shopping experience. It is currently owned by General Growth Properties.

History

The mall opened in April of 1969 on Abercorn Expressway. At opening date the anchors were Belk-Beery and Sears. With the 1970s came a new era that brought in national chain stores. Stores like County Seat, The Gap, The Limited, Waldenbooks, Casual Corner, Spencer Gifts, Merry Go Round, and others. The basic design of the mall was very simple. It consisted of suspended ceilings, fluorescent lighting, and terrazzo floors. The exterior was and still largely is stucco over cinder-block. There also was a movie theatre that closed in the mid-1980s. The movie theatre is now the 6th precinct of the Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police Department.

Renovations came in 1982 when JC Penney was added, in 1989 when the mall was gutted and structurally redesigned and in 1991 when Rich's was added following the closing and demolition of Maas Brothers. Since the late 1990s many modernizations have occurred like replacing a section of the mall called The Promenade with Barnes and Noble. Two years later a new food court opened replacing the older sparatically placed restaurants throughout the mall. Work continues to bring in more upscale stores and more affluent shoppers.

Key Tenants

Department Stores

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