Uptown Meridian (formerly Bonita Lakes Mall) is an enclosed

shopping mall A shopping mall (or simply mall) is a large indoor shopping center, usually Anchor tenant, anchored by department stores. The term ''mall'' originally meant pedestrian zone, a pedestrian promenade with shops along it, but in the late 1960s, i ...

located in

Meridian, Mississippi Meridian is the List of municipalities in Mississippi, eighth most populous city in the U.S. state of Mississippi, with a population of 35,052 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. It is the county seat of Lauderdale County, Mississippi, ...

, United States.

History

The mall opened on October 15, 1997, and was owned by

CBL & Associates Properties CBL Properties (previously CBL & Associates, Inc., then CBL & Associates Properties, Inc.) is an American real estate investment trust that invests in shopping centers and owns shopping malls, primarily in the Southeastern and Midwestern Unite ...

. In 2016, Bonita Lakes Mall was sold to RockStep Capital. Over one hundred shopping venues are located within or outside the mall. Venues include department stores, specialty shops, restaurants, eateries, and a movie theater. Bonita Lakes Mall was renamed Uptown Meridian in 2020.

Anchor tenants

Belk Belk, Inc. is an American department store chain founded in 1888 by William Henry Belk in Monroe, North Carolina, with nearly 300 locations in 16 states. Belk stores and Belk.com offer apparel, shoes, accessories, cosmetics, home furnishings, a ...

(formerly

McRae's McRae's was a mid-range regional department store chain founded and based in Jackson, Mississippi, with locations in Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, and Florida. The nameplate was in existence for more than a century. History Samuel P. McRae f ...

) *

Dillard's Dillard's, Inc. is an American department store chain with approximately 267 stores in 29 states and headquartered in Little Rock, Arkansas. Currently, the largest number of stores are located in Texas with 57 and Florida with 42. The company a ...

* Fitness Depot * Golden Ticket Cinemas * Woodstock Furniture Clearance Outlet

Former tenants

* Goody's *

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 ...

(closed in 2017) *

Sears Sears, Roebuck and Co., commonly known as Sears ( ), is an American chain of department stores and online retailer founded in 1892 by Richard Warren Sears and Alvah Curtis Roebuck and reincorporated in 1906 by Richard Sears and Julius Rosen ...

(closed in 2018) *

United Artists Theatres Regal Cinemas (also Regal Entertainment Group) is an American movie theater chain that operates the second-largest theater circuit in the United States, with 5,720 screens in 420 theaters as of December 31, 2024. Founded on August 10, 1989, it ...

* AllIn1 Adventures (formerly Hype Indoor Adventures)

Bonita Lakes Crossing

Bonita Lakes Crossing is a

shopping center A shopping center in American English, shopping centre in English in the Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth English (see American and British English spelling differences#-re, -er, spelling differences), shopping complex, shopping arcade, ...

located outside of the mall. Some of the stores in the center include Ashley Furniture HomeStore, Cato Fashions, and Jo-Ann.

References

External links

Uptown Meridian official website
{{Shopping malls in Mississippi Shopping malls established in 1997 Shopping malls in Mississippi Buildings and structures in Meridian, Mississippi Tourist attractions in Meridian, Mississippi