CoolSprings Galleria


CoolSprings Galleria is an enclosed super-regional shopping mall in the Cool Springs commercial and residential corridor between Franklin and Brentwood, Tennessee, south of Nashville, Tennessee, United States. Opened in 1991, it features 150 stores. The mall's anchor stores are Belk, Dillard's, JCPenney, and Macy's, with other major tenants including American Girl, The Cheesecake Factory, H&M, Primark, and Ulta Beauty. CBL Properties developed the mall in a joint venture with the Edward J. DeBartolo Corporation, and has owned it since its opening; CBL also owns an adjacent power center called CoolSprings Crossing which was developed simultaneously.
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History

CBL & Associates Properties, a shopping mall developer based in Chattanooga, Tennessee, first announced plans to build a shopping mall in Franklin, Tennessee, in 1989. It would be situated at the interchange of Interstate 65 and Moores Lane. CBL developed the mall through a joint venture with the Edward J. DeBartolo Corporation. The original plans for the mall included three anchor stores: Castner Knott, and Sears, with additional space for up to two more. Overall it would feature nearly 200 stores in over of retail space. Coinciding with development of the mall, three other stores were confirmed for the surrounding area: Target and Service Merchandise at an adjacent power center called CoolSprings Crossing, and The Home Depot across Interstate 65.
CoolSprings Galleria opened on August 7, 1991, with Castner Knott, Dillard’s, and Sears as anchors. The mall was over 1.3 million square feet in size and an estimated 70,000 to 80,000 people visited the mall on opening day. JCPenney would open in the following years and on October 24, 1994, Parisian opened a location at the mall, becoming the fifth anchor store.
In May 2011, it was announced that TIAA-CREF would receive 50% ownership of the mall and several other CBL malls in an attempt to reduce CBL's debt. Sears closed its store there in 2013 and sold it to CBL, who plans to redevelop the space.