Former Carson's
Muncie Mall is an enclosed shopping mall in Muncie, Indiana. Opened in 1970, it is anchored by one anchor store: JCPenney. It is managed by Washington Prime Group.
History[]
Macy's
Muncie Mall opened in 1970 with Britt's, W. T. Grant, and Sears as its anchor stores. Other major tenants upon opening included a National Tea supermarket and Osco Drug. Britt's and Grant's, both later became L. S. Ayres and JCPenney, respectively. Another major tenant was Ball Stores, which later became Elder-Beerman.
Books-A-Million
In 1997, after L. S. Ayres vacated the central anchor spot for a new store in the mall, the former Ayres building became a new Elder-Beerman store. Elder-Beerman continued to operate a home goods store within the former Ball Stores. L .S. Ayres' newer store became Macy's in 2006. Books-A-Million opened its fourth Indiana store at the mall in 2006. Old Navy, which replaced the Elder-Beerman home store, closed in 2010. Elder-Beerman became Carson's in 2012. On April 18, 2018, Carson's announced that its store would be closing in August 2018 as a result of liquidation of their parent company, Bon-Ton. On May 31, 2018 Sears announced that they would also be closing as part of a plan to close 72 stores nationwide. Sears closed in September 2018. It left only JCPenney and Macy's as the only anchors left.
On January 6, 2020, it was announced that Macy's would be closing in March 2020 which will leave J. C. Penney as the only anchor left.
Less than 3 months later, on June 4, 2020, it was announced that JCPenney would be closing as part of to close 242 stores nationwide, leaving the mall without any anchor stores.