As of spring 2026, you can still park in the Oak Court lot, walk into Dillard’s, use the Pinnacle branch, and go to work in the office building. But the mall is closed. These are not the same thing.
Oak Court Mall, the enclosed shopping center that opened on Poplar Avenue in 1988, closed its interior to the public on April 20, 2026, after nearly 38 years.
The most striking thing about Oak Court’s financial failure is that the mall was almost completely full when the loan went into default. Occupancy was 98 percent in 2020. The loan payment had already been missed…