Malls · Tennessee

Hickory Hollow Mall

From the authors' mapRedevelopedReinhabitedClosedNashville, TN

Opened 1978. Closed 2019. Redeveloped · Reinhabited.

Status nowClosedextracted, unreviewed

What it becameretail, healthcare, education, mixedextracted, unreviewed

Site size27 acresextracted, unreviewed

Retrofit yearNot yet retrofittedstatus

Walkability11.3 of 20 · 15-minute 3 of 6EPA, OpenStreetMap

Rail within 800 mNo · Opportunity ZoneOpenStreetMap, HUD

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Hickory Hollow Mall. Photo: Superdupereditor, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Site profile17 elements · what this retrofit is built with · tap a chip for the evidence

Former anchors

Sears

This site: Sears wikipedia · all sites with this

Finance and pipeline

On Facebook

This site: …https://www.facebook.com/2017473508475858 overture · all sites with this

Place

30,000+ vehicles a day on an adjacent road

This site: 36,432 on 254 fhwa-hpms · all sites with this

County permitting 2,000+ apartment units a year

This site: 4,138 units, Davidson County census-bps · all sites with this

High social vulnerability tract (SVI ≥ 0.75)

This site: 0.97 cdc-svi · all sites with this

Opportunity Zone

This site: 47037015628 hud-oz · all sites with this

Renter-majority tract

This site: 77% census-acs · all sites with this

Tract income up 60%+ since 2013

This site: +104% census-acs · all sites with this

Tract population up 25%+ since 2013

This site: +29% census-acs · all sites with this

Scale

Building footprint 50,000+ m²

This site: 67,679 m² overture · all sites with this

Strategy

Redeveloped

This site: Reinhabitation, education and civic Redevelopment, recreation and office arcgis-webmap · all sites with this

Reinhabited

This site: Reinhabitation, education and civic Redevelopment, recreation and office arcgis-webmap · all sites with this

New use

Civic and government

This site: Reinhabitation, education and civic Redevelopment, recreation and office Approved by Metro Na extraction · all sites with this

Education

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

Mixed use

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

Office

This site: …tation, education and civic Redevelopment, recreation and office Approved by Metro Nashville Council (late April 2022). Glob 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

TN, Nashville: Hickory Hollow Mall
• Reinhabitation, education and civic
• Redevelopment, recreation and office

Now

Status	Closedextracted, unreviewed
Strategy	Redeveloped · Reinhabitedauthors' map
New uses	retail, healthcare, education, mixedextracted, unreviewed
What is there now	Reinhabitation, education and civic Redevelopment, recreation and officeauthors' map
Redeveloper	CBL & Associatesextracted, unreviewed

Planning

Zoning change	public ownership plus Global Mall Planning Study (zoning not found)research
Public purchase or subsidy	Metro bought the mall property for $44M. Separately, $32M to convert the old JCPenney into a library and community center. The planned Vanderbilt lease fell through.research
Entitlement year	2022research
Planning notes	Approved by Metro Nashville Council (late April 2022). Global Mall Planning Study https://nashville.gov/departments/planning/long-range-planning/local-planning-studies/global-mall-planning-studyresearch

Securitised debt and public filers

Filings (2001 to date) that name “Hickory Hollow Mall” and “Nashville” (117 hits, first 100 sampled, 4 other filers such as tenants left out). No commercial-mortgage trust names this mall in the sample, which does not rule out a securitised loan. Text matches, not a title search. Open the search · all trusts.

Kind	Filer	Filings	Dates	Forms
Public owner (strong)	CBL & ASSOCIATES PROPERTIES INC (CBL)	83	2001-02-01 to 2014-03-03	8-K 60, 10-K 15, 10-Q 4, 10-K/A 3
Public owner (weak)	CBL & ASSOCIATES LIMITED PARTNERSHIP	1	2014-03-03 to 2014-03-03	10-K 1

As reported by the owner

Property tables from the owner's annual report (Form 10-K, Item 2) on EDGAR, one row per filing year. GLA, occupancy and anchors are the filer's own figures at that year end; “leased” counts signed leases, “occupied” counts open stores; ownership is the filer's share. Matched by name and place, unreviewed; the verbatim table row is in sec_facts.csv.

Year end	Filer	Name in filing	GLA sq ft	Occupancy	Years	Share	Sales psf	Anchors listed
2009	CBL & Associates Properties 10-K, 2010-02-22	Hickory Hollow Mall Nashville, TN match: exact	1,107,476 in-line 401,989	69.0% leased	built 1978 / acquired 1998 / renovated 1991	100.0%	$159	Macy's, Sears, Electronic Express
2006	CBL & Associates Properties 10-K, 2007-03-01	Hickory Hollow Mall Nashville, TN match: exact	1,107,042 in-line 428,105	92.0% leased	built 1978 / acquired 1998 / renovated 1991	100.0%	$239	Dillard’s, Linens N Things, Macy’s, Sears, Steve & Barry’s

Site context

FEMA flood zone	X · AREA OF MINIMAL FLOOD HAZARDFEMA NFHL
EPA-regulated facilities within 500 m	6: GLOBAL MALL AE DEMOLITION; KIPP HIGH SCHOOL - BELL ROAD; MCNABB ANTIOCH PROJECT; NOVO ANTIOCH; OKLAHOMA INSTALLATION COMPANY (DILLARDSEPA FRS
Census tract 47037015628	4,602 people, 5,508 per sq mi; median household income $66,558; median gross rent $1,484; 77% renters; 9.6% vacant units; 6.5% commute by transitACS 2023 5-year
Walkability (EPA, block group)	index 11.3 of 20; 109 intersections per sq mi; no transit stop within the EPA search radius; land-use mix 0.86; 140,839 jobs within 45 min by car; 0% of households without a carEPA Smart Location
Within a 10–15 minute walk (800 m)	3 of 6 daily needs: 0 grocers, 0 schools, 4 parks or playgrounds, 0 health, 1 civic, 9 food and drink; 7 cycleway segments, 71 sidewalk-tagged segmentsOpenStreetMap
Opportunity Zone	yes, tract 47037015628 (rural)HUD
Housing permits, Davidson County (TN), 2024	4,138 units in 5+ unit buildings, 20 in 2–4, 2,722 single-family; 2023: 8,041 in 5+Census BPS
Social vulnerability (CDC SVI 2022, tract)	overall percentile 0.97; socioeconomic 0.92; housing and transport 0.97; 37% below 150% of poverty; 6% of households with no vehicleCDC/ATSDR
Other atlas sites nearby	1 within 10 km, 5 within 25 km: Harding Mall (7.1 km)computed
Overture Maps	place Hickory Hollow Mall (shopping_mall, confidence 0.82, from Overture, Overture-signals, meta); building footprint 67,679 m²Overture (CDLA-Permissive 2.0)
Website and social	no website listed · social: facebookOverture / Internet Archive
Attention: Wikipedia page views	23,020 since 2015; 6,473 in the last 12 months (-10% vs the prior 12); peak 2024-10 with 844Wikimedia
Tract change 2013–2023	population +29% (3,563 → 4,602); median income +104% ($32,609 → $66,558); renters 88% → 77%; median home value +114% ($117,400 → $251,700)Census ACS 5-year
Natural hazard risk (FEMA National Risk Index, tract)	relatively low overall (score 26.7); expected annual loss $630,050; community resilience relatively moderateFEMA NRI
Tax-credit housing within 1 km	1 LIHTC properties, 154 units: Hickory Hollow Tower (154 units)HUD LIHTC
Retail trade in the county, 2012 to 2023	2,716 establishments (+5%); 41,024 jobs (+10%)Census CBP
Housing market in the county	typical home value $424,273 (-3% 1 yr, +16% 5 yr); typical rent $1,820/mo (+1% 1 yr), 2026-09Zillow Research
Traffic on the busiest road within 600 m (2024)	36,432 vehicles a day on 254 (principal arterial, 4 lanes); 2,368 trucks; 12 counted segmentsFHWA HPMS

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Elsewhere on the web

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

Pages with photos

Hickory Hollow Mall - Nashville, TN | Flickr flickr.com
Hickory Hollow Mall shishido.com
Core of Hickory Hollow Mall sells for $1M | D… nashvillepost.com
Hickory Hollow Mall (Nashville) - 2021 All You Need to Kno… tripadvisor.com
Hickory Hollow Mall: Long-dea… tennessean.com
The Rise and Fall of Hickory Hollow Mall wkrn.com
RIP, Hickory Hollow Mall | Ragamuffingospelfan's Blog oneragamuffin.com

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Multifamily screen

closed or demolished site (sourced)
already in play: under construction, approved, or sold to a developer with housing plans
27 acres
county grew 3.8% 2018–23
median rent $1,485
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

Opened	1978Wikidata
Closed	2019extracted, unreviewed
Acres	27.0extracted, unreviewed
Stores at peak	249extracted, unreviewed
Anchors	Sears, Castner Knott, Cain-Sloan
County	Davidson County
Census division	6 · East South Central

Not yet recorded: GLA, original developer, retrofit year. Know it? Tell us.

Background

Hickory Hollow Mall, later Global Mall at the Crossings, was a 1,100,000 ft2 (100,000 m2) regional indoor shopping mall in the Nashville neighborhood of Antioch, Tennessee, located just east of I-24 at exit 59 along Bell Road. The shopping center was inaugurated on August 11, 1978, and flourished for three decades, containing 249 stores during its heyday as the largest and highest-grossing mall in Tennessee.

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

Timeline

1978 Opened (Wikidata)
1978 Mall inaugurated/opened
1982 JCPenney added as anchor
1991 $25 million expansion converting Dillard's
1998 CBL & Associates purchases mall
2012 Revitalization plan announced
2012 Nashville State Community College purchases former Dillard's space
2016 58 tenants occupy internationally-themed mall
2019 Mall closed
2026 Scheduled demolition

Sources

Wikipedia · supports: acres, status, year closed
12 quoted sentences
After 41 years of operation, the mall closed in 2019
opened on September 21, 1978, on 27 acres of land
After 41 years of operation, the mall closed in 2019
inaugurated on August 11, 1978,
Metro Nashville · supports: zoning change
1 quoted sentence
Metro Council voted in late April 2022 to purchase a significant portion of the Global Mall site and an adjoining office building.
Metro Nashville
wpln.org
Retrofitting Suburbia Interactive Mall Map (ArcGIS web map ce33ab26…) · 2021-01-20

Cite

Retrofit Atlas (2026). "Hickory Hollow Mall, Nashville, TN." Record m-0d322f926d, from the authors' map. Built on the public Retrofitting Suburbia map (Dunham-Jones and Williamson) and the sources listed. https://retrofitatlas.org/malls/tn/nashville-hickory-hollow-mall/ (accessed 2026-10-20).