Belk, Hanes Mall, Winston Salem, North Carolina. Photographed 5/17/2005.

Belk, Hanes Mall, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Exterior view. Photographed January 30, 2011.

Belk, Hanes Mall, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Exterior view. Photographed January 30, 2011.

Belk, Hanes Mall, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Exterior view. Photographed January 30, 2011.

Belk, Hanes Mall, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Upper level mall entrance. Photographed with camera phone 7/23/05.

Belk, Hanes Mall, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Lower level mall entrance. Photographed with camera phone 8/02/05.

Belk, Hanes Mall, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Mall entrance. Photographed January 30, 2011.

Belk; Hanes Mall, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Upper level mall entrance. Photographed November 26, 2010.

Belk, Hanes Mall, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Upper level mall entrance. Photographed January 30, 2011.

Belk, Hanes Mall, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Lower level mall entrance. Photographed January 30, 2011.

Belk, Hanes Mall, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Escalator well. Photographed with camera phone 8/02/05.

Belk; Hanes Mall, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Escalator well. Photographed November 26, 2010.

Belk, Hanes Mall, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. beneFit cosmetics counter. Photographed with camera phone 8/02/05.

Belk, Hanes Mall, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Clinique cosmetics counter. Photographed with camera phone 8/02/05.

Belk, Hanes Mall, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Men's Nautica sportswear department. Photographed with camera phone 8/02/05.

Belk, Hanes Mall, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Men's Big & Tall department. Photographed with camera phone 8/02/05.

Belk, Hanes Mall, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. 'Today's Woman' department. Photographed with camera phone 8/02/05.

Belk, Hanes Mall, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Parking lot sign. Photographed January 30, 2011.

Hanes Mall, Winston Salem, North Carolina. Photographed 5/17/2005.


Hanes Mall, Winston Salem, North Carolina. View of ceiling and skylight detail near Belk. Photographed with camera phone 7/05/05.

Hanes Mall, Winston Salem, North Carolina. View of South Mall center court, looking up at upper level food court. Photographed with camera phone 7/23/05.

Hanes Mall, Winston Salem, North Carolina. South Mall, looking towards food court. Photographed with camera phone by Billy Coore 12/15/2006.

Hanes Mall, Winston Salem, North Carolina. View of sign in North Mall near JCPenney. Photographed with camera phone 7/23/05.

Hanes Mall, Winston Salem, North Carolina. View of elevator near Belk. Photographed with camera phone 7/23/05.

Hanes Mall, Winston Salem, North Carolina. Carousel in North Mall. Photographed with camera phone 8/02/05.

Hanes Mall, Winston Salem, North Carolina. Carousel in North Mall. Photographed with camera phone by Billy Coore 12/15/2006.

Hanes Mall, Winston Salem, North Carolina. South Mall, looking towards Macy's. Photographed with camera phone by Billy Coore 12/15/2006.

Hanes Mall is North Carolina's largest shopping mall, with over 1.6 million square feet (150,000 m²) of retail space. The mall also has one of the most unique designs of any mall in the state.

The original mall north section of the mall was opened in 1975 with Belk, JCPenney and Sears. The mall later expanded southward to include Ivey's (Dillard's), Thalhimers (Hecht's / Macy's) and a new food court.

The interesting thing about the design is that you have to walk through JCPenney to get to either side of the mall. (Wilkipedia)

Nordstrom, Short Pump Town Center, Richmond, Virginia (Richmond City Watch)


Nordstrom, Short Pump Town Center mall entrance, Richmond, Virginia (Richmond City Watch)

Chesterfield Towne Center; Richmond, Virginia. Mall entrance. (photo by Pat Richardson)


Chesterfield Towne Center, Richmond, Virginia (Richmond City Watch)

Cary Towne Center, Cary, North Carolina. Photographed 5/1/05

Cary Towne Center is a mall in Cary, NC, a suburb west of Raleigh, NC. Cary Towne Center, as it is known today, originally opened as Cary Village Mall in 1979. Today, the mall is anchored by Hudson-Belk, Dillard's, Hecht's, J.C. Penney and Sears with 1.1 million square feet (102,000 m²) of retail space. (Wilkipedia)

Thalhimers (later Hecht's and Macy's); SouthPark mall, Charlotte, North Carolina

Thalhimers (later Hecht's and Macy's), SouthPark mall, Charlotte, North Carolina. Mall entrance, 1991. (courtesy Pat Richardson)

Thalhimers (later Hecht's and Macy's), SouthPark mall, Charlotte, North Carolina. Model shopping in ladies' shoe department for photo shoot, 1988. (courtesy Pat Richardson)

Hecht's (former Thalhimers, later Macy's), SouthPark mall, Charlotte, North Carolina. Mall entrance with "photoshopped" Hecht's signage, 1992. (courtesy Pat Richardson)

Hecht's (former Thalhimers, later Macy's), SouthPark mall, Charlotte, North Carolina. Mall entrance, 1994. (scanned from SouthPark directory)



Hecht's, SouthPark mall, Charlotte, North Carolina. 1988-2004 facade (Photo by cantnot)


Hecht's, SouthPark mall, Charlotte, North Carolina. Revised facade (Photo by cantnot)


Hecht's, SouthPark mall, Charlotte, North Carolina. Revised mall entrance (Photo by cantnot)

Hecht's, SouthPark mall, Charlotte, North Carolina. Temporary signage with new Macy's sign placed underneath. (JerseyBoy)

Hecht's, SouthPark mall, Charlotte, North Carolina. Temporary signage with new Macy's sign placed underneath. (JerseyBoy)

Hecht's, SouthPark mall, Charlotte, North Carolina. Temporary signage with new Macy's sign placed underneath. (JerseyBoy)

Macy's, SouthPark mall, Charlotte, North Carolina. Temporary signage with new lighted Macy's sign placed underneath. Photographed with camera phone 7/8/06.

The Macy's store at SouthPark was originally opened as Thalhimers in 1988 and was the anchor of a major expansion of the Charlotte mall at 140,000 square feet on two levels. It was the first and only Thalhimers store in the market.

The design of the building was a post-modern spin on the Modernist architecture of SouthPark, utilizing white glazed brick, but eschewing the early '70s style building setbacks and anodized aluminum window trim of its fellow anchors in favor of a dramatic rounded entrance marquee, blue mosaic-tiled accents at the entryway and frameless glass doors (modified in 2001, citing security concerns).

In 1990, Thalhimers was purchased by the May Department Stores Company which operated the chain as a separate division until 1992, when it was folded into May's Hecht's division. A companion Hecht's location opened at Carolina Place Mall in 1993, eight miles south of SouthPark, and another new Hecht's location opened in 2005 at Northlake Mall some 15 miles north of this store.

In 2002, work started on a major expansion of Hecht's SouthPark to coincide with a major mall expansion and renovation. A new facade was added and a new interior and mall entrance were constructed. The project was completed in March 2004, and the store now covers 200,000 square feet on two levels.

In 2005, The May Department Stores Company merged with Federated Department Stores. The Hecht's division was eliminated and the former Hecht's stores will soon be operated by Federated's Macy's division. Hecht's SouthPark is scheduled to officially convert to Macy's in September 2006.

Belk, River Ridge Mall, Lynchburg, Virginia (LynchburgDining.com)

Belk, River Ridge Mall, Lynchburg, Virginia, Mall entrance under renovation in 2005-2006. Photographed with camera phone 9/28/05.

Belk, River Ridge Mall, Lynchburg, Virginia. Mall entrance detail. Photographed with camera phone 9/28/05.


Belk, River Ridge Mall, Lynchburg, Virginia, Fragrances department, slated for renovation in 2005-2006. Photographed with camera phone 5/20/05.

Belk, River Ridge Mall, Lynchburg, Virginia. Cosmetics and Fragrances department under renovation. Photographed with camera phone 9/28/05.


Belk, River Ridge Mall, Lynchburg, Virginia. Escalator well, slated for renovation in 2005-2006. Photographed with camera phone 5/20/05.

Belk, River Ridge Mall, Lynchburg, Virginia. Escalator well. Photographed with camera phone 9/28/05.


Belk, River Ridge Mall, Lynchburg, Virginia, former Men's Suits and Shoes department, slated for renovation in 2005-2006. Photographed with camera phone 5/20/05.

Belk, River Ridge Mall, Lynchburg, Virginia. Men's Chaps Ralph Lauren sportswear department. Photographed with camera phone 9/28/05.

Dillard's, SouthPark mall, Charlotte, North Carolina, proposed new facade (Architecture+)

Hudson Belk, Crabtree Valley Mall, Raleigh, North Carolina, 5/1/2005. The three-story portico with two multi-tiered chandeliers is original and was partially obstructed by an addition to the mall's parking deck (left) in 2003.