Anchor Changes
There have been several significant changes within the mall since it opened on October 3, 1993: Mervyn's vacated in December 1995 and Dillard's filled the sixth pad on the east side of the mall the following year. A large parking deck was also constructed next to Dillard's. Though JCPenney converted most of the former Mervyn's locations, they already had a location at the mall. Instead, Parisian took the spot, making the mall more upscale in the process. In 2005, Lord & Taylor closed its 115,000 sq ft (10,700 m2). store at the mall leaving a vacant anchor. The Parisian location was vacated September 2007, as it has been bought out by Belk, which opened in the former Lord & Taylor space. In June 2009, Belk announced that its North Point Mall store will close in September 2009.
The mall itself was most recently renovated in 2003, when the interior was modernized to introduce more sitting areas, and in 2004, when an entire escalator was moved from East Court near Starbucks to the Sears wing of the mall.
Another major development occurred in June 2004, when The Cheesecake Factory opened its third Georgia location (and first location outside of Atlanta) at North Point. The store is located in the mall parking lot just beyond the parking deck. A walking path known as the "yellow brick road" connects the restaurant to the mall's Center Court.
Midwestern luxury retailer Von Maur announced in October 2010 to take over the vacant Belk (originally Lord and Taylor) building and open its first Atlanta-market store by the Fall of 2011 or 2012. According to Jim Von Maur, company president, the company planned to gut the two-story former Belk and expand it to 140,000 square feet (13,000 m2) from 115,000 square feet (10,700 m2). The design includes reddish brick, a cupola and columns to echo Georgia and the South. The store opened November 2011.
The former Parisian store was demolished to make way for a new AMC theater in September 2012.
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