Auburn Mall (Massachusetts)

The mall was originally built in 1971 and featured Denholm's and Sears as anchors.[5] Denholm's was converted to Forbes & Wallace, and later to The Outlet, a Providence, Rhode Island-based department store chain. The Outlet store closed in the 1980s and was replaced with Caldor.

The mall underwent a significant renovation in 1997 which added Filene's as a third anchor.[6] Caldor closed in 1999 and was converted to a Filene's home store.[7] In 2006, the two Filene's stores in the mall were both converted to Macy's.

In October 2015, the mall unveiled plans to add a 10-screen cinema and restaurant in the space occupied by Macy's Home Store which closed on December 1, 2015.[8] By April 2016, those plans were approved.[9] However, in November 2016, the mall abandoned previous plans and proposed a new medical center for the Macy's Home Store space.[10] On June 16, 2017, the mall announced that Reliant Medical Group signed a 20-year lease and opened in the space formerly occupied by Macy's Home Store on February 18, 2019.[11]

On November 7, 2019, it was announced that Sears would be closing as part of a plan to close 96 stores nationwide. The store closed in February 2020. This left Macy's as the only traditional anchor left.[12]