You Remember It as Colonial Mall. Your Neighbor as Burlington Square. In Burlington, NC It Was Holly Hill the Whole Time.

Holly Hill Mall is a one-level enclosed mall on Huffman Mill Road in west Burlington, North Carolina. It opened in 1969 with Belk, Sears, and Woolworth inside it, and none of the three is there now.

Belk and JCPenney moved to a newer center two miles west in 2007, and the mall was in foreclosure by the next summer. A group of local businessmen bought it out of a bank and put the Holly Hill name back up.

Sears stayed the longest. The mall sold that end of the property in 2019, and the store came down the year after. A supermarket was built on the cleared land…

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