Malls · North Carolina

Biltmore Square Mall

Imported, unreviewedStatus not verifiedAsheville, NC

Biltmore Square Mall in Asheville, NC is a mall of unknown status; data limits understanding of its past and potential. · summary, model-written

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Biltmore Square Mall — Exterior view of a strip center with multiple retail stores and outdoor seating area. · verified by a vision model. Photo: Edwin Shelton from Asheville NC, USA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Place

15-minute neighbourhood (5+ of 6 daily needs within 800 m)

This site: 5/6 openstreetmap · all sites with this

30,000+ vehicles a day on an adjacent road

This site: 86,230 on I-26 fhwa-hpms · all sites with this

Bike network nearby

This site: 11 ways openstreetmap · all sites with this

County permitting 2,000+ apartment units a year

This site: 2,224 units, Buncombe County census-bps · all sites with this

Grocery within 800 m

This site: 2 stores openstreetmap · all sites with this

High inland flooding risk

This site: Relatively High fema-nri · all sites with this

Interstate or freeway within 600 m

This site: I-26 fhwa-hpms · all sites with this

Tract house prices doubled in 10 years

This site: +130% fhfa · all sites with this

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Now

Status	Status not verifiedWikipedia reported

Securitised debt and public filers

Filings (2001 to date) that name “Biltmore Square Mall” and “Asheville” (7 hits, first 7 sampled, 2 other filers such as tenants left out). Only weak matches to commercial-mortgage trusts: the mall may have backed a securitised loan, or may just be mentioned in the filing; several trusts usually means one loan split into pari-passu notes. Earliest trust filing in the sample 2001-12-07 (a sample date, not the issuance date); Whether the loan is still in the pool, in special servicing or repaid is in the trust's monthly distribution reports, which are not searchable here. Text matches, not a title search. Open the search · all trusts.

Kind	Filer	Filings	Dates	Forms
CMBS trust (weak)	CREDIT SUISSE FIRST BOSTON MORTGAGE SECURITIES CORP	2	2001-12-07 to 2001-12-12	8-K 2

Site context

FEMA flood zone	X · AREA OF MINIMAL FLOOD HAZARDFEMA NFHL
EPA-regulated facilities within 500 m	2: CARMAX; OKLAHOMA INSTALLATION #449EPA FRS
Census tract 37021002306	3,965 people, 389 per sq mi; median household income $61,502; median gross rent $1,264; 38% renters; 7.7% vacant units; 3.2% commute by transitACS 2023 5-year
Within a 10–15 minute walk (800 m)	5 of 6 daily needs: 2 grocers, 0 schools, 1 parks or playgrounds, 1 health, 1 civic, 14 food and drink; 11 cycleway segments, 25 sidewalk-tagged segmentsOpenStreetMap
Opportunity Zone	noHUD
Housing permits, Buncombe County (NC), 2024	2,224 units in 5+ unit buildings, 10 in 2–4, 1,379 single-family; 2023: 1,199 in 5+Census BPS
Social vulnerability (CDC SVI 2022, tract)	overall percentile 0.41; socioeconomic 0.43; housing and transport 0.48; 15% below 150% of poverty; 9% of households with no vehicleCDC/ATSDR
Other atlas sites nearby	1 within 10 km, 1 within 25 km: Former Sears store at Asheville Mall (8.7 km)computed
Overture Maps	no place match; building footprint 7,408 m²Overture (CDLA-Permissive 2.0)
Attention: Wikipedia page views	7,835 since 2015; 2,718 in the last 12 months (+5% vs the prior 12); peak 2024-12 with 328Wikimedia
Tract change 2013–2023	tract boundary changed between the 2010 and 2020 census; no 2013 comparisonCensus ACS
Natural hazard risk (FEMA National Risk Index, tract)	relatively moderate overall (score 62.4); expected annual loss $1.9M; high: inland flooding, cold wave, lightning; community resilience relatively moderateFEMA NRI
Tax-credit housing within 1 km	noneHUD LIHTC
Retail trade in the county, 2025 (BLS QCEW)	17,293 jobs in 1,326 establishments; average annual pay $40,112; employment location quotient 1.30; employment +0.2% on the yearBLS QCEW 2025, NAICS 44-45, private
Jobs located in the tract, 2022	5,547 jobs; 1,306 in retail trade, 436 in accommodation and food (workplace blocks summed to tract 37021002306)Census LEHD LODES8 WAC 2022
Upward mobility (Opportunity Atlas, 2010 tract)	children of low-income (25th percentile) families reached the 41th income percentile as adults; 0.9% incarcerated at the 2010 count (454 children in the sample); born 1978–83, measured 2014–15Opportunity Insights
Food access (USDA FARA 2019, 2010 tract)	not a low-access tract at 1 mile; 50% of residents more than 1 mile from a supermarket; poverty rate 8.3%; median family income $91,433; 412 SNAP householdsUSDA ERS
Schools	Buncombe County Schools (KG-12); 0 public schools within 1 mileNCES EDGE
Elevation	2,172 ft above sea level at the site pointUSGS 3DEP
Storm events in the county, 2016-2025	100 county-logged events: 53 thunderstorm wind, 27 hail, 12 flash flood, 6 flood; $602,628,000 property damage reported; 38 direct deaths; forecast-zone events (most flood, winter and heat) not countedNOAA Storm Events
Homes for sale in ZIP 28806, 2026-09	median list price $475,000 (-1.5% on the year); 250 active listings; median 75 days on market; 27% with a price cutRealtor.com Research
Retail trade in the county, 2012 to 2023	1,320 establishments (+17%); 19,291 jobs (+18%)Census CBP
Housing market in the county	typical home value $440,368 (-4% 1 yr, +16% 5 yr); typical rent $1,700/mo (+0% 1 yr), 2026-09Zillow Research
House price index, tract, 2025	455 (2000 = 100); +15.8% 1 yr, +65% 5 yr, +130% 10 yrFHFA
Traffic on the busiest road within 600 m (2024)	86,230 vehicles a day on I-26 (Interstate, 4 lanes); 8,325 trucks; 30 counted segmentsFHWA HPMS

Summary, model-written

The record identifies Biltmore Square Mall as a mall located in Asheville, North Carolina. It provides no timeline of opening, renovations, or closures, and lists the site’s status as unknown. The narrative excerpt mentions Tanger Outlets Asheville as a shopping mall at the same location.

Why. not stated in the record

Where it stands. The site’s current status is unknown and no controlling owner is specified in the record.

For a planner

Status unknown requires verification
Limited to a single source
Need to clarify whether the site is Biltmore Square Mall or Tanger Outlets Asheville

For a developer

Site size and ownership not provided
Entitlement stage unclear
No context-layer data (flood, transit, environment) available

What we do not know yet

Missing opening date, anchor tenant history, and closure timeline
Unknown current ownership and control
No zoning or land-use details
Narrative excerpt may be model-extracted and unreviewed
Only one source cited

Generated by nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b on NVIDIA API via Hermes CT from the fields, parcels, deals and context layers on this page, with no outside knowledge. It is regenerated when the record changes and has not been checked by a person. How it is made.

Elsewhere on the web

Retail history: Biltmore Square on DeadMalls.com photos, field notes and visitor memories since 2000; matched by name and city; nothing copied here

Pages with photos

Sky City: Retail History: Biltmore Square Mall: Asheville, NC skycity2.blogspot.com
Biltmore Square Mall Asheville, NC May 2012 | Flickr flickr.com
The now torn down Biltmore Square Mall, Asheville, NC. : r/Li… reddit.com

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county grew 6.8% 2018–23

Inputs: record fields (size, status) and county Census ACS 2018–2023 figures (growth, rent). How the points work. Not a recommendation.

History and original facts

County	Buncombe County
Census division	5 · South Atlantic
Notes	Wikipedia categories: Demolished shopping malls in the United States

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Background

Tanger Outlets Asheville is a shopping mall located just off Andrew Jackson Highway (I-26/US 74) on Brevard Road (NC 191) in Asheville, North Carolina, United States.

Excerpt from Wikipedia (authors and history), CC BY-SA 4.0. May be older than the record above.

Sources

Wikipedia: Biltmore Square Mall · 2026-08-05 · CC BY-SA 4.0

Cite

Retrofit Atlas (2026). "Biltmore Square Mall, Asheville, NC." Record m-9fbc6f2855, imported, unreviewed. Built on the public Retrofitting Suburbia map (Dunham-Jones and Williamson) and the sources listed. https://retrofitatlas.org/malls/nc/asheville-biltmore-square-mall/ (accessed 2026-10-20).

BibTeX

@misc{retrofitatlas_ashevillebiltmoresquaremall,
  title = {Biltmore Square Mall, Asheville, NC},
  author = {{Retrofit Atlas}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://retrofitatlas.org/malls/nc/asheville-biltmore-square-mall/}},
  year = {2026},
  note = {Record m-9fbc6f2855, release 2026-10-20, tier: draft. Built on the Retrofitting Suburbia map (Dunham-Jones and Williamson) and the sources listed on the record. Accessed 2026-10-20}
}

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