Mayberry Mall

Mayberry Mall

Exterior view of Mayberry Mall, October 2012
Location	Mount Airy Township, North Carolina, USA
Coordinates	36°30′23″N 80°37′19″W / 36.50634°N 80.62193°W / 36.50634; -80.62193Coordinates: 36°30′23″N 80°37′19″W / 36.50634°N 80.62193°W / 36.50634; -80.62193
Address	380 Frederick Street
Opening date	1968
No. of stores and services	20+
No. of anchor tenants	3 (1 open, 2 vacant)
Total retail floor area	265,000 square feet
No. of floors	1

Mayberry Mall is a shopping mall located just outside Mount Airy, North Carolina on the east side of U.S. Highway 52. It was named after the fictitious town of Mayberry in which The Andy Griffith Show was based. The anchor stores are only one anchor which is Belk

Opened in 1968,^[1] it is the only shopping center between Winston-Salem, North Carolina and Roanoke, Virginia.^[2] One of the original anchor stores was W.T. Grant's Grant City, which closed in 1975^[3] and became Kmart. Kmart closed in 2016. Winn Dixie was also an anchor until it relocated in 1978.^[4] Belk was added in 1970,^[5] and J. C. Penney moved into the mall in 1987.^[6]

On June 8, 2018, JCPenney announced that it's store would be closing on July 9, 2018 which will leave Belk as the only anchor left.^[7]

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