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Malls · Mississippi

Downtown Mall

From the authors' mapReinhabitedRetrofit builtTupelo, MS

Reinhabited in 1993. · from the fields below

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Place
30,000+ vehicles a day on an adjacent roadThis site: 33,623 on US HIGHWAY 45 fhwa-hpms · all sites with this
Bike network nearbyThis site: 29 ways openstreetmap · all sites with this
Interstate or freeway within 600 mThis site: US HIGHWAY 45 fhwa-hpms · all sites with this
National Register place within 500 mThis site: Lee County Courthouse nps-nrhp · all sites with this
Opportunity ZoneThis site: 28081950500 hud-oz · all sites with this
Shrinking countyThis site: -2.1% census-acs · all sites with this
Strategy
ReinhabitedThis site: Reinhabitation: sports record · all sites with this

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From the authors' map

MS, Tupelo: Downtown Mall/BancorpSouth Arena, 1993
• Reinhabitation: sports

Now

StatusRetrofit builtderived from authors' map (retrofit year present)
StrategyReinhabitedauthors' map
What is there nowReinhabitation: sportsauthors' map
Retrofit year1993authors' map

Site context

FEMA flood zoneX · AREA OF MINIMAL FLOOD HAZARDFEMA NFHL
EPA-regulated facilities within 500 m5: ADCOMM GRAPHICS; CARQUEST OF TUPELO; DAVIS ENGINE REBUILDERS INC; TUPELO WATER & LIGHT DEPT; WASTE MANAGEMENT OF NOVAL MISSISSIPPIEPA FRS
Census tract 280819505023,479 people, 452 per sq mi; median household income $85,455; median gross rent $846; 25% renters; 12.9% vacant units; 0.0% commute by transitACS 2023 5-year
Within a 10–15 minute walk (800 m)3 of 6 daily needs: 0 grocers, 0 schools, 4 parks or playgrounds, 0 health, 4 civic, 6 food and drink; 29 cycleway segments, 151 sidewalk-tagged segmentsOpenStreetMap
Opportunity Zoneyes, tract 28081950500 (rural)HUD
National Register places within 500 m1: Lee County CourthouseNPS
Housing permits, Lee County (MS), 202424 units in 5+ unit buildings, 10 in 2–4, 92 single-family; 2023: 0 in 5+Census BPS
Social vulnerability (CDC SVI 2022, tract)overall percentile 0.51; socioeconomic 0.36; housing and transport 0.57; 12% below 150% of poverty; 4% of households with no vehicleCDC/ATSDR
Other atlas sites nearby1 within 10 km, 1 within 25 km: Tupelo Mall (1.9 km)computed
Overture Mapsno place match; building footprint 15,634 m², 8.941289901733398 mOverture (CDLA-Permissive 2.0)
Attention: Wikipedia page views1,367 since 2015; 1,367 in the last 12 months; peak 2026-07 with 471Wikimedia
Tract change 2013–2023tract boundary changed between the 2010 and 2020 census; no 2013 comparisonCensus ACS
Natural hazard risk (FEMA National Risk Index, tract)relatively low overall (score 52.9); expected annual loss $1.8M; high: cold wave, lightning; community resilience relatively moderateFEMA NRI
Tax-credit housing within 1 kmnoneHUD LIHTC
Retail trade in the county, 2012 to 2023510 establishments (-0%); 6,863 jobs (-6%)Census CBP
Housing market in the countytypical home value $212,212 (+6% 1 yr, +25% 5 yr); typical rent $1,374/mo (+4% 1 yr), 2026-09Zillow Research
House price index, tract, 2025336 (2000 = 100); -0.9% 1 yr, +41% 5 yr, +70% 10 yrFHFA
Traffic on the busiest road within 600 m (2024)33,623 vehicles a day on US HIGHWAY 45 (freeway or expressway, 4 lanes); 4,640 trucks; 28 counted segmentsFHWA HPMS

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Multifamily screen

  • retrofit already built
  • county shrank -2.1% 2018–23

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History and original facts

Now called / also known asBancorpSouth Arena
CountyLee County
Census division6 · East South Central

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Background

Huntington Bank Arena, formerly Tupelo Coliseum, BancorpSouth Center, BancorpSouth Arena, and Cadence Bank Arena is a 10,000-seat multi-purpose arena, near downtown Tupelo, Mississippi, named for Huntington Bancshares, a large multi-state commercial banking company.

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Timeline

  1. 1993 Retrofit: reinhabit

Sources

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