# Century Plaza

Birmingham, AL · mall · tier: draft · Retrofit Atlas record `m-34b4969480` · release 2026-10-22

Canonical: https://retrofitatlas.org/malls/al/birmingham-century-plaza/  
JSON: https://retrofitatlas.org/data/records/m-34b4969480.json · Provenance: https://retrofitatlas.org/data/records/m-34b4969480.provenance.json · API: https://retrofitatlas.org/api/v1/sites/m-34b4969480

## Facts

| Field | Value | Provenance |
|---|---|---|
| Status | demolished | documented · model extraction, unreviewed |
| Strategy | redevelop | documented · model extraction, unreviewed |
| New use | logistics | reported · model extraction, unreviewed |
| What is there now | Amazon logistics facility | documented · model extraction, unreviewed |
| Opened | 1975 | reported · Wikipedia |
| Closed | 2009 | documented · model extraction, unreviewed |
| Retrofit year | 2020 | reported · model extraction, unreviewed |
| GLA (sq ft) | 740000 | reported · Esri 2014 layer |
| Stores at peak | 50 | reported · Esri 2014 layer |
| Original developer | Engel Realty | reported · web research agent |
| Redeveloper | Amazon | reported · model extraction, unreviewed |
| Zoning change | last-mile delivery center | documented · model extraction, unreviewed |
| Entitlement year | 2020 | reported · model extraction, unreviewed |

## Quoted support

- **year_closed**: “closed at the end of business on May 31, 2009” — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_Plaza
- **after_notes**: “Amazon logistics facility” — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_Plaza
- **status**: “demolished” — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_Plaza
- **strategy**: “redevelop” — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_Plaza
- **zoning_change**: “considered for development as a 200,000-square-foot (19,000 m2) last-mile delivery center by Amazon” — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_Plaza
- **enclosed**: “Century Plaza was an enclosed shopping mall in Birmingham, Alabama, United States.” — extraction-deep:nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b
- **demolition_year**: “It was demolished in 2020 and replaced by an Amazon logistics facility.” — extraction-deep:nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b

## Anchors

JCPenney, Sears, Rich's, Loveman's of Alabama

## Parties

- General Growth Properties — owner (from text) (1975–2009)
- Howard Hughes Corporation — owner (from text) (2017–2017)
- Lumpkin Development — owner (from text) (2017–2020)

## Timeline

- 1975: Opened (Wikidata)
- 1975: opened
- 2009: closed
- 2017: sale
- 2020: demolition
- 2020: redevelopment

## Deals and debt

- 2020 sale:  Amazon ← Lumpkin Development  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_Plaza
- 2017 sale: 3000000.0 Lumpkin Development ← Howard Hughes Corporation  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_Plaza

## Background (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0, shortened)

Century Plaza was an enclosed shopping mall in Birmingham, Alabama, United States. Opened in 1975, the mall originally included four anchor stores and more than one hundred tenants, but lost three of those anchors in the mid-2000s. In May 2009, the mall was completely closed as Sears and the rest of the stores in the mall closed. The mall was managed by General Growth Properties of Chicago, Illinois at the time of its closure. It was demolished in 2020 and replaced by an Amazon logistics facility.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_Plaza

## Sources

- Quoted support for year_closed — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_Plaza
- Esri StoryMaps: Closed_US_Malls feature layer (2014) — https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=6869fc5bfb3f4757954ef7a9e9ccbebf (2014-10-02)

## Cite

Retrofit Atlas (2026). "Century Plaza, Birmingham, AL." Record m-34b4969480, release 2026-10-22, tier draft. https://retrofitatlas.org/malls/al/birmingham-century-plaza/ (accessed 2026-10-22).

```bibtex
@misc{retrofitatlas_birminghamcenturyplaza,
  title = {Century Plaza, Birmingham, AL},
  author = {{Retrofit Atlas}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://retrofitatlas.org/malls/al/birmingham-century-plaza/}},
  year = {2026},
  note = {Record m-34b4969480, release 2026-10-22, tier: draft. Built on the Retrofitting Suburbia map (Dunham-Jones and Williamson) and the sources listed on the record. Accessed 2026-10-22}
}
```

Licence: research use only; terms undecided with the authors (https://retrofitatlas.org/licence/). Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0. Tiers: curated = from the authors' public map, not reviewed by them; draft = imported or model-extracted, unreviewed.