Updated (5/6/08) with vintage aerial view
Cotswold Mall, Charlotte, North Carolina. Cover of mailing from early days of the mall. (courtesy Pat Richardson)
Cotswold Mall, Charlotte, North Carolina. Aerial view of shopping center, 1966. (courtesy Pat Richardson)
Cotswold Mall, Charlotte, North Carolina. Interior mall view, date unknown. (courtesy Pat Richardson)
Cotswold Mall, Charlotte, North Carolina. Interior mall view, date unknown. (courtesy Pat Richardson)
Cotswold Mall, Charlotte, North Carolina. Moonlight Madness Sale advertisement, February, 28, 1975 (Pat Richardson)Cotswold Mall wasn't Charlotte's first enclosed mall (that distinction goes to
Charlottetown Mall), but it was the first that was truly in the suburbs. Anchored by Harris Teeter,
Ivey's, Roses, and
The Collins Company, Cotswold Mall opened in the 1960s and featured both interior and exterior entrances for its stores.
Various remodeling schemes and anchor changes would change Cotswold Mall from an enclosed mall to exclusively a open-air center with a neighborhood focus, but it still stands, fully occupied, at the corner of Randolph Road and Sharon Amity Road, not far from
SouthPark.
