Tagged: Eastland Mall

Local News
2:16 pm
Mon March 11, 2013

City Selects Finalists To Revive Eastland Mall

Credit Julie Rose
Charlotte Development and Investment Manager Peter Zeiler (l) gives interested parties a tour of the vacant Eastland Mall in January.

The City of Charlotte has identified three finalists to breathe life into the now-vacant Eastland Mall and surrounding area.  

The Eastland Mall will not become a doll factory or a multi-generational healthy living community. Those are two of four proposals the city rejected in the first stage of selecting a suitor to remake the 80-acre site on Central Avenue in east Charlotte. But it's still not entirely clear what all three finalists to develop the property have in mind.

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Local News
4:59 pm
Wed January 30, 2013

Interest Brewing For Vacant Eastland Mall

Charlotte taxpayers may not know it, but they own a mall.  The city bought Eastland Mall  back in August for $13 million.  When it opened in 1975, it was the largest mall in North Carolina. Then came a decade of steady decline. By 2010 it was completely vacant. WFAE's Julie Rose reports on the latest effort to bring Eastland Mall back to life.

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