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{{infobox shopping mall
| name              = Main Street Oak Ridge
| image             =
| caption           =
| location          = [[Oak Ridge, Tennessee]], United States
| opening_date      = 1955 outdoor format, late 1980s enclosed
| manager           = TN Oak Ridge Rutgers, LLC,<br>Oak Ridge City Center, LLC (''former'')
| owner             = TN Oak Ridge Rutgers, LLC
| number_of_stores  =
| number_of_anchors = 2
| floor_area        =
| floors            = 1
}}
'''Main Street Oak Ridge''', formerly known as ''Oak Ridge City Center'' and ''Oak Ridge Mall'', is a [[mixed-use development]] in [[Oak Ridge, Tennessee|Oak Ridge]], [[Tennessee]]. It was formerly constructed as a large indoor shopping mall.
==History==
The site currently occupied by Oak Ridge City Center was selected by the [[U.S. Atomic Energy Commission]] to establish a permanent shopping center in the years following [[World War II]]. In 1951 the AEC selected a company headed by [[Guilford Glazer]] to build the new shopping center. A shortage of steel resulting from the [[Korean War]] delayed construction, but the Downtown Shopping Center opened in 1955.<ref>''The Oak Ridger'', August 3, 1987</ref> This shopping area was considered a replacement for the former "townsite" area around Jackson Square.
In the late 1980s [[Crown American]] purchased the property and converted it to an indoor mall by enclosing the walkways around the stores and significantly expanding the floor area.
RealtyLink, a South Carolina-based development company, purchased the former Oak Ridge Mall site on June 30, 2016, for $6.3 million. The new owner is TN Oak Ridge Rutgers LLC, a company established by RealtyLink for the development project.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://oakridgetoday.com/2016/07/01/mall-sale-has-closed-executive-says/|title=Mall sale has closed, executives say|date=July 1, 2016|website=Oak Ridge Today}}</ref>
Plans by the developer call for replacing the former mall with ''Main Street Oak Ridge''. This will be a 58-acre, $75 million mixed-use development property.<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://oakridgetoday.com/2016/07/26/mall-demolition-begins-2/|title=Mall demolition begins|date=July 26, 2016|website=Oak Ridge Today}}</ref>
Demolition of the former Oak Ridge Mall began on the morning of Tuesday, July 26, 2016.<ref name="auto"/>
With the exception of anchor stores Belk and JCPenney, the former mall has been demolished, as of November 23, 2016.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://oakridgetoday.com/2016/11/23/new-parking-lot-paved-new-sign-belk-work-proceeds-quickly-main-street/|title=New parking lot paved, new sign up at Belk as work proceeds quickly at Main Street|date=November 23, 2016|website=Oak Ridge Today}}</ref> [[Dick's Sporting Goods]] opened in 2017 on the new property, which was renamed Main Street Oak Ridge.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://oakridgetoday.com/2017/06/28/dicks-sporting-goods-now-open-in-oak-ridge-grand-opening-this-weekend/|title=Dick's Sporting Goods now open in Oak Ridge|date=June 28, 2017|website=Oak Ridge Today}}</ref>
==References==
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[[Category:Shopping malls in Tennessee]]
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[[Category:Buildings and structures in Anderson County, Tennessee]]
[[Category:1955 establishments in Tennessee]]