Southpark Mall is open, but it is also in foreclosure at the same time. This situation usually happens before a building is sold, emptied, or redeveloped. But it does not always.
The mall opened in Colonial Heights, Virginia, in 1989 with four department stores anchoring a single-story building near Interstate 95. It served the Tri-Cities area of Petersburg, Hopewell, and Colonial Heights, and grew a commercial district around it that still functions today.
Three of those original department stores are gone. A congregation now holds services inside the mall’s Regal Theatre. Dick’s Sporting Goods operates in another building that was once Dillard’s…