Jasper Mall is an enclosed shopping mall located in Jasper, Alabama, United States, approximately 30 miles (48 km) west of Birmingham.
History[]
The mall opened on August 8, 1981. It currently is approximately 350,000 square feet (33,000 m2) in size, and includes one anchor and about 35 smaller stores.
Originally developed by the local Simmons family and Georgia developer George Ewing, the mall is owned by Kohan Retail. Anchor JCPenney moved from downtown to the mall when it opened. The local paper has reported that it is unusual for a mall to have Kmartas an anchor.
Sharp Development Group, led by Sam Sharp, purchased the mall from Jasper Mall Associates in 1996.
Third anchor Belk opened an approximately 60,000-square-foot (5,600 m2) store in March 2002. This was part of an 80,000-square-foot (7,400 m2) expansion of the mall by Sharp Realty.
On December 28, 2016, Sears Holdings announced that Kmart would be closing as part of a plan to close 30 Sears and Kmart stores nationwide The store closed in March 2017.
On March 17, 2017, it was announced that the JCPenney store would also be closing as part of a plan to close 138 locations. The store closed its doors permanently on July 31. Belk is the only anchor left in the mall.
On January 24, 2020, Jasper Mall, a documentary feature film billed as "a year in the life of a dying shopping mall, its patrons, and its tenants" premiered at Slamdance Film Festival.
