former Thalhimers (later Hecht's and Lord & Taylor), Crabtree Valley Mall, Raleigh, North Carolina. Mall entrance, circa 1972. (Scan from thesis by Phillip Long, Courtesy Malls of America)
former Thalhimers (later Hecht's and Lord & Taylor), Crabtree Valley Mall, Raleigh, North Carolina. Mall entrance, circa 1975. (Courtesy Elizabeth Smartt)
former Lord & Taylor, Crabtree Valley Mall, Raleigh, North Carolina. Mall entrance, shortly after opening in 1995. (Crabtree Valley Mall)
former Lord & Taylor, Crabtree Valley Mall, Raleigh, North Carolina. Mall entrance. Photographed with camera phone 7/15/05.
former Lord & Taylor, Crabtree Valley Mall, Raleigh, North Carolina. Lower level mall entrance. Photographed with camera phone 6/23/05.
former Thalhimers (later Hecht's and Lord & Taylor), Crabtree Valley Mall, Raleigh, North Carolina. Sealed mall entrance with announcemnt the openeing of its latest tenant, a Hudson Belk Men's Store. Photographed with camera phone 3/24/07.
The former Lord & Taylor at
Crabtree Valley Mall, Raleigh, North Carolina, started its life as a branch of Richmond, Virginia-based department store Thalhimers in 1972. In 1990, Hecht's department stores in Washington, D.C., a division of the May Department Stores Co. of St. Louis, acquired the Thalhimers chain and renamed the stores Hecht's by early 1992.
A year later, Hecht's started construction on an 180,000 square foot, two-level location in an expansion wing of Crabtree Valley. The 100,000 square foot former Thalhimers store was then converted to a Lord & Taylor in 1995.
Things calmed down for nearly a decade until May Department Stores, which owned both Hecht's and Lord & Taylor at the time, announced plans to close the underperforming Lord & Taylor in 2003. Plans were originally to sell the remainder of the store's lease, but due to lack of interest from buyers, the store limped along as a clearance center for the chain until the end of the original lease in 2006.
Federated bought the May department store chain in 2005. That left Federated with two department stores at Crabtree Valley Mall: Hecht's and Lord & Taylor. Federated closed the underperforming Lord & Taylor in February 2006, but in an odd move, entered into a new five year lease on the space.
In early 2007, Belk, Inc. announced that the upper level of the shuttered Lord & Taylor space will become the new men's department of Hudson Belk, which is also located at the mall. Scheduled to open in May 2007, with 69,000 square feet of space, it will be Belk's largest freestanding men's store.
No plans have been announced for the lower level.
former Thalhimers (later Hecht's and Lord & Taylor), Crabtree Valley Mall, Raleigh, North Carolina. Mall entrance, circa 1972. (Scan from thesis by Phillip Long, Courtesy Malls of America)
former Lord & Taylor, Crabtree Valley Mall, Raleigh, North Carolina. Mall entrance. Photographed with camera phone 7/15/05.
former Thalhimers (later Hecht's and Lord & Taylor), Crabtree Valley Mall, Raleigh, North Carolina. Sealed mall entrance with announcemnt the openeing of its latest tenant, a Hudson Belk Men's Store. Photographed with camera phone 3/24/07.
The former Lord & Taylor at Crabtree Valley Mall, Raleigh, North Carolina, started its life as a branch of Richmond, Virginia-based department store Thalhimers in 1972. In 1990, Hecht's department stores in Washington, D.C., a division of the May Department Stores Co. of St. Louis, acquired the Thalhimers chain and renamed the stores Hecht's by early 1992.
Things calmed down for nearly a decade until May Department Stores, which owned both Hecht's and Lord & Taylor at the time, announced plans to close the underperforming Lord & Taylor in 2003. Plans were originally to sell the remainder of the store's lease, but due to lack of interest from buyers, the store limped along as a clearance center for the chain until the end of the original lease in 2006.
Sears, Crabtree Valley Mall, Raleigh, North Carolina. (Wake County, North Carolina Real Estate).
Sears, Crabtree Valley Mall, Raleigh, North Carolina. Photographed 10/20/07.
Sears, Crabtree Valley Mall, Raleigh, North Carolina. Upper level mall entrance. Photographed with camera phone 7/15/05.
JCPenney, Hanes Mall, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Exterior view of lower level. Photographed 1/24/09.
JCPenney, Hanes Mall, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Exterior view of upper level. Photographed 10/8/07.
JCPenney, Hanes Mall, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Exterior canopy sign on lower level. Photographed with camera phone 8/5/06.
JCPenney, Hanes Mall, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. North mall lower level entrance. Photographed with camera phone 7/23/05.
JCPenney, Hanes Mall, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. North mall lower level entrance. Photographed with camera phone 7/23/05.
JCPenney, Hanes Mall, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. South mall entrance. Photographed with camera phone 7/11/05.
JCPenney, Hanes Mall, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. South mall upper level entrance. Photographed with camera phone 7/11/05.
JCPenney, Hanes Mall, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. South mall lower level entrance. Photographed with camera phone 7/11/05.
JCPenney, Hanes Mall, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Escalator well. Photographed with camera phone 7/23/05.
JCPenney, Hanes Mall, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Men's Athletic Shoes department. Photographed with camera phone 8/02/05.
JCPenney, Hanes Mall, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Former Fine Jewelry department awaiting renovation. Photographed with camera phone 4/14/07.
JCPenney, Hanes Mall, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Former Men's Shoes department awaiting renovation. Photographed with camera phone 4/14/07.
JCPenney, Four Seasons Town Centre, Greensboro, North Carolina. Photographed with camera phone 4/12/06.
JCPenney, Four Seasons Town Centre, Greensboro, North Carolina. Level One mall entrance, circa 1990. (J.C. Penney Co.)
JCPenney, Four Seasons Town Centre, Greensboro, North Carolina. Level One mall entrance, looking down from up escalator. Photographed with camera phone 7/08/05. 
JCPenney, Four Seasons Town Centre, Greensboro, North Carolina. Level One mall entrance. Photographed with camera phone 7/08/05.
JCPenney, Four Seasons Town Centre, Greensboro, North Carolina. Escalator well. Photographed with camera phone 8/26/05.
Dillard's (former Meyers, Jordan Marsh and Ivey's), Four Seasons Town Centre, Greensboro, North Carolina. 1/21/07
Dillard's, Four Seasons Town Centre, Greensboro, North Carolina. View from west parking lot. Photographed with camera phone 7/08/05.
Dillard's, Four Seasons Town Centre, Greensboro, North Carolina. Koury Boulvard facade. Photographed with camera phone 7/22/05.
Dillard's, Four Seasons Town Centre, Greensboro, North Carolina. Level One mall entrance. Photographed with camera phone 8/26/05.
Dillard's, Four Seasons Town Centre, Greensboro, North Carolina. Cosmetics department. Photographed with camera phone 7/22/05.
Dillard's, Four Seasons Town Centre, Greensboro, North Carolina. Fragrance display. Photographed with camera phone 8/26/05.
Dillard's, Four Seasons Town Centre, Greensboro, North Carolina. Men's Sportswear department. Photographed with camera phone 7/22/05.
Dillard's, Four Seasons Town Centre, Greensboro, North Carolina. Men's Shoes department. Photographed with camera phone 7/22/05.
Dillard's, Four Seasons Town Centre, Greensboro, North Carolina. Costume Jewelry department. Photographed with camera phone 8/26/05.
Dillard's, Four Seasons Town Centre, Greensboro, North Carolina. Lingerie department. Photographed with camera phone 8/26/05.
