Northgate Mall (Chattanooga)

Northgate Mall

Location	Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA
Opening date	March 15, 1972
Management	CBL & Associates Properties
No. of stores and services	120
No. of anchor tenants	6
Total retail floor area	820,000 square feet (76,180.5 m2)
Parking	4,500
No. of floors	2
Website	http://www.visitnorthgatemall.com/

Northgate Mall is an enclosed shopping mall in the Chattanooga suburb of Hixson. Opened on March 15, 1972, it was the second mall built in Chattanooga, Tennessee. It was the northside competition to Eastgate Mall.

A new movie theater opened in 2005.^[1] A new food court was proposed to go in where Book Gallery is located, but it was never built.^[2]

Anchors & Majors

Current

• Carmike Cinemas
• Belk (90,496 sq. ft.) (Originally Miller's, then Hess's, then Proffitt's)
• Belk Home Store (22,700 sq. ft.)
• The Book Gallery (13,863 sq. ft.)
• JC Penney (158,771 sq. ft.) (Original anchor)
• Piccadilly Cafeterias
• Ross Dress for Less (Coming soon)
• Sears (153,000 sq. ft.) (Original anchor)

Deadly crash at Sears

On April 13, 2009, a woman was killed after her car crashed into the Sears building.

The woman entered the Northgate Mall entrance from Highway 153. The vehicle jumped a curb and sped toward Sears, where it crashed into the southwest corner of the building. The crash left a 3 x 4 foot hole in the wall of the shoe storage area of the department store.^[3]

References

1. ^ http://www.ggp.com/properties/Centerinfo.asp?smuid=562%7C GGP Leasing Information
2. ^ "Northgate Mall plans six-tenant food court, welcomes new retailers". Chattanooga Tmes Free Press. Archived from the original on 2007-09-26. http://web.archive.org/web/20070926223656/http://community.timesfreepress.com/absolutenm/templates/coNews-HXN-story.aspx?articleid=1716&zoneid=51. Retrieved 2007-08-25. 
3. ^ Simms, Richard (April 13, 2009). "Deadly Crash Into Northgate Sears Building". NewsChannel 9. http://www.newschannel9.com/news/northgate_977354___article.html/sears_crashed.html. Retrieved 2009-04-13. ^{[dead link]}

External links

• Northgate Mall — Official website

Coordinates: 35°07′48″N 85°14′24″W / 35.130°N 85.240°W / 35.130; -85.240