Jasper Mall is an enclosed shopping mall located in

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, United States, approximately northwest of

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History

The mall opened on August 8, 1981. It currently is approximately in size, and includes three anchors and about 10 smaller stores. Originally developed by the local Simmons family and

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developer George Ewing, the mall is owned by Kohan Retail. Anchor

JCPenney Penney OpCo LLC , Trade name, doing business as JCPenney (colloquially Penney's and abbreviated JCP) is an American department store chain store, chain with 649 stores across 49 U.S. states and Puerto Rico. It is managed as part of the Catalys ...

moved from downtown to the mall when it opened. The local paper has reported that it is unusual for a mall to have

Kmart Kmart ( ), formerly legally registered as Kmart Corporation, now operated by Transformco, is a department-store chain and online retailer in the United States and Territories of the United States, its territories. It operates four remaining Kma ...

as an anchor. Sharp Development Group, led by Sam Sharp, purchased the mall from Jasper Mall Associates in 1996. Third anchor

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opened an approximately store in March 2002. This was part of an expansion of the mall by Sharp Realty. On December 28, 2016,

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announced that Kmart would be closing as part of a plan to close 30 Sears and Kmart stores nationwide. The store closed in March 2017.This space is now occupied by Rural King. On March 17, 2017, it was announced that the JCPenney store would also be closing as part of a plan to close 138 locations. The store closed its doors permanently on July 31.This space is now occupied by

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. On January 24, 2020, '' Jasper Mall'', a documentary feature film billed as "a year in the life of a dying shopping mall, its patrons, and its tenants", premiered at

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. On November 12, 2021,

opened in the former

anchor location on the east end of the Jasper Mall, acquiring the entire

space. On January 17, 2023, the Jasper City Council approved an incentive package, which has allowed a Rural King store to open in the former Kmart space on the west end of the Jasper Mall. Rural King officially opened for business Friday, April 4, 2025.

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External links

Jasper Mall official website
{{Shopping malls in Alabama Shopping malls in Alabama Shopping malls established in 1981 Kohan Retail Investment Group

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