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and Sears properties would close, including the Sears store at
Metrocenter. The last of the mall's department store anchors, Sears closed in 2012. Presently the only uses of the mall are the Burlington store, City offices, and scattered small outlets around the center court. Special events are still
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The former McRae's/Belk property was sold in July 2010 to Retro Metro, LLC, with plans to divide the one-time anchor between offices for the City of
Jackson on the first level, and a mixed-use redevelopment in the second level that included offices, restaurants, and retail space. Watkins Partners, a
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Metrocenter began to decline in 1999, when the first of the mall's anchor department stores closed. Dillard's, which had acquired two of the mall's anchor spaces by 1999, continued to operate in the former D.H. Holmes space while closing the Gayfer's space. Dillard's remained in the mall until
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corridor. After years of ownership by Cannon
Management and Jackson Metrocenter Limited, a decade-long decline at the mall led to a foreclosure in November 2012, and subsequent sale to Metrocenter Mall, LLC. Though the mall itself is closed, some portions of the mall are used as
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2006, leaving two active department store anchors at
Metrocenter. Within the same year, one of those anchors—McRae's—was sold to Belk, which assumed the anchor and rebranded the store's restaurant as Brittyanna's. A steady pattern of vacancies continued until August 2007, when
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Jackson-area real estate developer, announced intentions to move forward with
Project Retro Metro in December 2010 and started with its mixed-use redevelopment in January 2011. David Watkins, president of Watkins Partners, said, "Metrocenter has plummeted."
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December 2009 meeting of Jackson's city council, to purchase the former D.H. Holmes/Dillard's property for $ 39,500, in hopes of spurring a revitalization of West Jackson.
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was added as the fourth department store anchor in May 1979. Restaurants were inside two of the department stores — Potpourri
Restaurant inside D.H. Holmes, and Widow Watson's inside McRae's. Metrocenter also had a
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opened in the first level of the former
Gayfers property to great fanfare, drawing patrons from more than 90 miles away. Statistics show traffic had increased at Metrocenter by as much as 3,000 cars per day.
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