Every town has a place that tells you more about its past than any historical marker ever could. For Murfreesboro, that place is Stones River Mall. It has been a symbol of ambition, collapse, reinvention, and survival – sometimes all at once.
Built on optimism in the late 1980s and nearly lost before it ever opened, the mall has spent more than three decades reshaping itself to fit whatever the retail world demanded next.
…