Malls · North Carolina

Midtown Square Mall

From the authors' mapRedevelopedRegreenedRetrofit builtCharlotte, NC

Opened 1959. Redeveloped · Regreened in 2006.

Status nowRetrofit builtderived from authors' map (retrofit year present) reported

What it becamehousing, office, retailextracted, unreviewed reported

Site size10 acresextracted, unreviewed

documented

situated on a 10-acre (40,000 m2) parcel

en.wikipedia.org

Retrofit year2006authors' map reported

Rail within 800 mNoOpenStreetMap, HUD

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Finance and pipeline

On Facebook

This site: …https://www.facebook.com/291860035962 overture · all sites with this

Website alive

This site: …http://www.MetropolitanCLT.com/ overture / http check · all sites with this

Place

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

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

3+ other atlas sites within 10 km

This site: 4 within 10 km computed · all sites with this

30,000+ vehicles a day on an adjacent road

This site: 126,394 on I-277 fhwa-hpms · all sites with this

Bike network nearby

This site: 73 ways openstreetmap · all sites with this

County permitting 2,000+ apartment units a year

This site: 5,377 units, Mecklenburg County census-bps · all sites with this

Grocery within 800 m

This site: 4 stores openstreetmap · all sites with this

Interstate or freeway within 600 m

This site: I-277 fhwa-hpms · all sites with this

Low social vulnerability tract (SVI ≤ 0.25)

This site: 0.17 cdc-svi · all sites with this

Renter-majority tract

This site: 90% census-acs · all sites with this

Scale

Under 20 acres

This site: 10 acres extraction · all sites with this

Strategy

Redeveloped

This site: Redevelopment: mixed use, new streets Partial regreening: greenway arcgis-webmap · all sites with this

Regreened

This site: Redevelopment: mixed use, new streets Partial regreening: greenway arcgis-webmap · all sites with this

New use

Housing

This site: …new_use field extraction · all sites with this

Mixed use

This site: Redevelopment: mixed use, new streets Partial regreening: greenway along with cond extraction · all sites with this

Office

This site: …ets Partial regreening: greenway along with condominiums, offices, and restaurants extraction · all sites with this

Park and open space

This site: Redevelopment: mixed use, new streets Partial regreening: greenway along with condominiums, offices, and restaurants extraction · all sites with this

Retail (continued)

This site: …new_use field extraction · all sites with this

All elements and lists · Trends

From the authors' map

NC, Charlotte: Midtown Square Mall/Metropolitan, 2006
• Redevelopment: mixed use, new streets
• Partial regreening: greenway

Now

Status	Retrofit builtderived from authors' map (retrofit year present) reported
Strategy	Redeveloped · Regreenedauthors' map reported
New uses	housing, office, retailextracted, unreviewed reported
What is there now	Redevelopment: mixed use, new streets Partial regreening: greenwayauthors' map reported
Retrofit year	2006authors' map reported
Redeveloper	Pappas Properties / Collette Associates and Colonial Properties Trustextracted, unreviewed reported

Planning

Planning notes	along with condominiums, offices, and restaurantsextracted, unreviewed reported

Site context

FEMA flood zone	X · AREA OF MINIMAL FLOOD HAZARDFEMA NFHL
EPA-regulated facilities within 500 m	11: 1200 METROPOLITAN; BAXTER STREET REMEDIATION SITE; BJ'S WHOLESALE CLUB #375; CARE PLUS CVS PHARMACY #2980; CHARLOTTETOWN EXXON 4-3523EPA FRS
Census tract 37119000301	1,102 people, 14,557 per sq mi; median household income $97,411; median gross rent $1,855; 90% renters; 10.2% vacant units; 1.6% commute by transitACS 2023 5-year
Within a 10–15 minute walk (800 m)	6 of 6 daily needs: 4 grocers, 4 schools, 208 parks or playgrounds, 12 health, 10 civic, 40 food and drink; 73 cycleway segments, 501 sidewalk-tagged segmentsOpenStreetMap
Opportunity Zone	noHUD
Housing permits, Mecklenburg County (NC), 2024	5,377 units in 5+ unit buildings, 96 in 2–4, 6,496 single-family; 2023: 7,467 in 5+Census BPS
Social vulnerability (CDC SVI 2022, tract)	overall percentile 0.17; socioeconomic 0.42; housing and transport 0.35; 17% below 150% of poverty; 6% of households with no vehicleCDC/ATSDR
Other atlas sites nearby	4 within 10 km, 4 within 25 km: Ballantyne Corporate Park (1.7 km); Charlottetown Mall (1.7 km); Freedom Mall (6.3 km); Eastland Mall (7.5 km)computed
Overture Maps	place Metropolitan (shopping_mall, confidence 0.97, from Overture, Overture-signals, meta); building footprint 5,497 m², 14.0 mOverture (CDLA-Permissive 2.0)
Website and social	www.MetropolitanCLT.com (alive) · social: facebookOverture / Internet Archive
Attention: Wikipedia page views	1,014 since 2015; 1,014 in the last 12 months; peak 2026-09 with 139Wikimedia
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)	very low overall (score 1.8); expected annual loss $358,110; community resilience relatively moderateFEMA NRI
Tax-credit housing within 1 km	3 LIHTC properties, 153 units: The Oaks At Cherry (81 units); Cherry Gardens (42 units); Baxter Street Apartments (30 units)HUD LIHTC
Retail trade in the county, 2025 (BLS QCEW)	65,929 jobs in 3,906 establishments; average annual pay $45,867; employment location quotient 0.84; employment +2.1% on the yearBLS QCEW 2025, NAICS 44-45, private
Jobs located in the tract, 2022	3,927 jobs; 311 in retail trade, 159 in accommodation and food (workplace blocks summed to tract 37119000301)Census LEHD LODES8 WAC 2022
Upward mobility (Opportunity Atlas, 2010 tract)	children of low-income (25th percentile) families reached the 31th income percentile as adults; -9.2% incarcerated at the 2010 count (3 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; poverty rate 30.5%; median family income $134,306; 160 SNAP householdsUSDA ERS
Schools	Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (PK-12); 5 public schools within 1 mile: Elizabeth Traditional Elem; Metro School; Piedmont Middle School; Central Piedmont Early CollegeNCES EDGE
Elevation	645 ft above sea level at the site pointUSGS 3DEP
Storm events in the county, 2016-2025	182 county-logged events: 110 thunderstorm wind, 34 hail, 19 flash flood, 11 flood; $30,079,000 property damage reported; 1 direct deaths; forecast-zone events (most flood, winter and heat) not countedNOAA Storm Events
Homes for sale in ZIP 28204, 2026-09	median list price $520,000 (-33.6% on the year); 43 active listings; median 65 days on market; 22% with a price cutRealtor.com Research
Retail trade in the county, 2012 to 2023	3,640 establishments (+8%); 75,819 jobs (+44%)Census CBP
Housing market in the county	typical home value $414,531 (-1% 1 yr, +20% 5 yr); typical rent $1,732/mo (+1% 1 yr), 2026-09Zillow Research
Traffic on the busiest road within 600 m (2024)	126,394 vehicles a day on I-277 (Interstate, 8 lanes); 33 counted segmentsFHWA HPMS

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Mid-City Mall, Louisville, KY · Malls · similar size (11.5 acres); opened 1962; same strategy: redevelop
Westbury Square, Houston, TX · Malls · similar size (7.5 acres); opened 1962; same strategy: redevelop

Elsewhere on the web

Pages with photos

Midtown Square Mall Charlotte _ Metropolitan of Charlotte, NC – GTS… ai.cibseashrae.org
Midtown Square Mall To Include Event Center [AUDIO] wjon.com
Midtown Square midtownsquaremall.com
Midtown Square Mall Photos and Premium High Res Pictures - G… gettyimages.com
284 Midtown Square Mall Stock Photos, High-Res Pictures, and Im… gettyimages.ca

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Multifamily screen

retrofit already built
county grew 7.3% 2018–23
median rent $1,521
housing in the record

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

Now called / also known as	Metropolitan
Opened	1959extracted, unreviewed
Acres	10.0extracted, unreviewed documented situated on a 10-acre (40,000 m2) parcel en.wikipedia.org
Original developer	The Rouse Companyextracted, unreviewed documented The Rouse Company was the mall's developers. en.wikipedia.org
Anchors	Bon Marché
County	Mecklenburg County
Census division	5 · South Atlantic

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Background

Midtown Square, formerly Outlet Square, then Charlottetown Mall, was a shopping mall located in North Carolina. The area's first enclosed shopping mall, it opened on October 28, 1959. Atlanta's Lenox Square opened two months earlier, but it was an open-air mall at first. The mall was situated on a 10-acre (40,000 m2) parcel on the southeastern fringes of Charlotte's "center city" area. The Rouse Company was the mall's developers.

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

Timeline

1959 Opened as Charlottetown Mall
1989 Renovated and renamed Midtown Square
2006 Retrofit: redevelop, regreen
2006 Demolished
2008 Redeveloped mixed-use complex opened

Sources

Wikipedia: Midtown Square Mall (North Carolina) · supports: acres, original developer, year opened
7 quoted sentences
opened on October 28, 1959.
situated on a 10-acre (40,000 m2) parcel
The Rouse Company was the mall's developers.
opened on October 28, 1959.
Retrofitting Suburbia Interactive Mall Map (ArcGIS web map ce33ab26…) · 2021-01-20

Cite

Retrofit Atlas (2026). "Midtown Square Mall, Charlotte, NC." Record m-8699fc85c6, from the authors' map. Built on the public Retrofitting Suburbia map (Dunham-Jones and Williamson) and the sources listed. https://retrofitatlas.org/malls/nc/charlotte-midtown-square-mall/ (accessed 2026-10-20).

BibTeX

@misc{retrofitatlas_charlottemidtownsquaremall,
  title = {Midtown Square Mall, Charlotte, NC},
  author = {{Retrofit Atlas}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://retrofitatlas.org/malls/nc/charlotte-midtown-square-mall/}},
  year = {2026},
  note = {Record m-8699fc85c6, release 2026-10-20, tier: curated. 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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