For the second year in a row, the mall operator that manages 62 malls across the country will close all of its locations for the entirety of Thanksgiving Day, according to a letter from its CEO, Stephen Lebovitz.
Lebovitz told CNBC that his company had “such overwhelming support from last year’s decision,” they felt “validated.”
The move is in response to “Black Friday creep,” which sees retailers opening earlier and earlier every year on Thanksgiving to capture crowds for “doorbuster” sales. CBL is marketing its move with the #makeThanksgivingyours hashtag.
Retailers that have an exterior entrance in malls will be allowed to open early, however, even if the mall itself is closed until 6 a.m. on Black Friday.
Some retailers, like TJ Maxx, Neiman Marcus, and Costco, have already started announcing whether they will be open or closed on Thanksgiving Day.
Here’s the full list of CBL malls that will be closed:
- Acadiana Mall in Lafayette, Louisiana
- Alamance Crossing in Burlington, North Carolina
- Arbor Place in Douglasville, Georgia
- Asheville Mall in Asheville, North Carolina
- Brookfield Square in Brookfield, Wisconsin
- Burnsville Center in Burnsville, Minnesota
- Cary Towne Center in Cary, North Carolina
- Chapel Hills Mall in Colorado Springs, Colorado
- CherryVale Mall in Rockford, Illinois
- Coastal Grand in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
- CoolSprings Galleria in Franklin, Tennessee
- Cross Creek Mall in Fayetteville, North Carolina
- Dakota Square Mall in Minot, North Dakota
- East Towne Mall in Madison, Wisconsin
- EastGate Mall in Cincinnati, Ohio
- Eastland Mall in Bloomington, Illinois
- Fayette Mall in Lexington, Kentucky
- Friendly Center in Greensboro, North Carolina
- Frontier Mall in Cheyenne, Wyoming
- Greenbrier Mall in Chesapeake, Virginia
- Hamilton Place in Chattanooga, Tennessee
- Hanes Mall in Winston-Salem, North Carolina
- Harford Mall in Bel Air, Maryland
- Hickory Point Mall in Forsyth, Illinois
- Honey Creek Mall in Terre Haute, Indiana
- Imperial Valley Mall in El Centro, California
- Janesville Mall in Janesville, Wisconsin
- Jefferson Mall in Louisville, Kentucky
- Kirkwood Mall in Bismark, North Dakota
- Laurel Park Place in Livonia, Michigan
- Layton Hills Mall in Layton, Utah
- Mall del Norte in Laredo, Texas
- Mayfaire in Wilmington, North Carolina
- Meridian Mall in Okemos, Michigan
- Mid Rivers Mall in St. Peters, Missouri
- Monroeville Mall in Monroeville, Pennsylvania
- Northgate Mall in Chattanooga, Tennessee
- Northpark Mall in Joplin, Missouri
- Northwoods Mall in Charleston, South Carolina
- Oak Park Mall in Overland Park, Kansas
- Old Hickory Mall in Jackson, Tennessee
- Park Plaza in Little Rock, Arkansas
- Parkdale Mall in Beaumont, Texas
- Parkway Place in Huntsville, Alabama
- Pearland Town Center in Pearland, Texas
- Post Oak Mall in College Station, Texas
- Richland Mall in Waco, Texas
- South County in St. Louis, Missouri
- Southpark Mall in Colonial Heights, Virginia
- St. Clair Square in Fairview Heights, Illinois
- Stroud Mall, Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania
- Sunrise Mall, Brownsville in Texas
- Triangle Town Center in Raleigh, North Carolina
- Turtle Creek Mall in Hattiesburg, Mississippi
- Valley View Mall in Roanoke, Virginia
- Volusia Mall in Daytona Beach, Florida
- West County Center in St. Louis, Missouri
- West Park Mall in Giraradeau, Missori
- West Towne Mall in Madison, Wisconsin
- WestGate Mall in Spartanburg, South Carolina
- Westmoreland Mall in Greensburg, Pennsylvania
- York Galleria in York, Pennsylvania
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