Midtown at Forest Acres

Midtown At Forest Acres

Location	3400 Forest Drive Columbia, South Carolina, United States 29204
Opening date	1988
Management	Richland Joint Venture
No. of anchor tenants	1
Total retail floor area	713,992 square feet (66,332.0 m2) [1] (GLA)
Parking	3,770
No. of floors	2
Website	Midtown At Forest Acres website

Midtown at Forest Acres formerly Richland Mall is located just off Forest Drive at Beltine Blvd in Columbia, South Carolina.

Midtown at Forest Acres opened in the late 1960s as a strip center and was enclosed and renamed Richland Fashion Mall in 1988. Original anchors were Bonwit Teller, J.B. White, and Parisian.

Today the mall is anchored solely by Belk. Bonwit Teller closed in 1993 and was replaced by Dillard's which closed in 2003. J.B. White was purchased by Dillard's in 1998 and converted to Belk as a part of a Dillard's/Belk store swap. Parisian closed in 2006 after being acquired by Belk.

Other major retailers on the Midtown at Forest Acres campus includes TGI Fridays, Regal Cinemas, and Bank of America. Verizon Wireless used to operate a call center in former mall space, but it has moved out of Richland Mall to Elgin. Eckerd also had a pharmacy at Midtown until 2005.

In April 2009, the Columbia Children's Theatre relocated to Midtown at Forest Acres. They moved into the retail space that had previously been an Express clothing store.

In April 2010, Midtown at Forest Acres was sold to Kahn Development Company and will soon change the name back to Richland Mall.

On January 30, 2011, S&S Cafeteria departed Richland Mall.

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