Comments on: Eastland Mall; Charlotte, North Carolina

By: Patrick

Patrick — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:38:50 +0000

When I was little, my teenage brother would beg Mom to drive almost an hour for his back-to-school shopping because Eastland was the place for cool clothes. When I was in college (Late 80s) I worked at JCPenney in Eastland and it was still very vibrant, but SouthPark was by then becoming the more upscale and fashionable mall. Now it’s just scary, but it’s not only the mall but all the strips around it. That whole side of town needs reinvestment. The talk of using government funds to build upscale housing on the mall site, thinking that will somehow stimulate the surroundings, scares me though – anybody driven through Citiside lately? Bet you didn’t get out and walk.

By: Tony

Tony — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 04:20:53 +0000

My wife and I were trying to kill some time before our flight out of Charlotte. She punched “malls” into our rental’s GPS and randomly chose this mall as the one we’d go to. The mall was in disrepair and clearly dying economically. We took a walk through the mall and I can safely say that there was nothing I would buy.

By: Jonah Norason

Jonah Norason — Thu, 28 May 2009 00:40:40 +0000

I find it laughable that the stores on the website refer to the rink as a “soccer rink”. Too little, too late.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 27 May 2009 23:20:11 +0000

I went to Eastland last weekend. Most of those stores in the pictures are gone- the Foot Fettish (sic) closed, as did the Radio Shack and others.

By: Becky

Becky — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 04:51:13 +0000

I’m in agreement with Blair. I, too, was a student at UNC-Charlote in the late ’70’s. The eastside was the happening place to be in Charlotte. I’ll never forget Christmas shopping at Eastland back then and how crowded the parking lot would be. I even worked at Ivey’s (before Dillards) in the mid-’80’s. It was still pretty nice at that time but, looking back, it was slowly going down. How things change in this city:(

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:04:47 +0000

Sorry, I hadn’t seen Grocerying’s post about the Sears closing- Grocerying is correct.

The ice rink is gone too.

By: Jonah Norason

Jonah Norason — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 00:52:07 +0000

I think that the mall needs to die now. Demolish it and rebuild a new enclosed mall across the street…smaller, but with an ice rink.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 22:53:24 +0000

Sears is shutting down in June 2009!

By: grocerying

grocerying — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 08:45:56 +0000

Sears announced it will be closing its Eastland Mall store May 31 2009

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:15:35 +0000

Most of the chain stores in the photos are gone- Belk, now Dillard’s, and even Whitehall Jewelers, Things Remembered and Hibbett Sports, the Hallmark store, and more are now gone. The Sears is a “Clearance Center” downstairs. The Belk wing is mostly boarded up.

Sad, as that part of Charlotte needs a mall (doesn’t everyone?).