Bristol Mall
Bristol Mall in Bristol, Virginia, was the area’s main regional shopping center. It opened in the mid-1970s and featured anchors such as Parks-Belk, Miller's, and Sears, along with a movie theater and a country-music museum that celebrated the region’s heritage.
Ownership changed several times. In 1999 Aronov Realty Management bought the mall for $25 million. In 2006 Bristol Mall Acquisitions LLC purchased it for $18.3 million. In August 2015, the mall foreclosed and was put up for auction. It later sold to Sunstar Keshav LLC, which said it would revitalize the property.
The mall closed on August 31, 2017, after its last store left and its website went offline.
The property reappeared on the market in 2018. Par Ventures bought it and planned to convert it into a cannabidiol plant, creating about 500 jobs, and renamed it Bristol Industrial Mall.
In December 2021, Hard Rock Casino announced plans to reuse the space as the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Bristol, with a planned opening in 2024.
The mall had various tenants over the years, including Piccadilly Cafeterias (closed 2011), JCPenney (closed 2014), and Belk (which consolidated its Bristol stores into a single Belk at The Pinnacle in 2015). Sears closed in 2017, leaving the mall without anchors, and by August 31, 2017, all tenants had left.
This page was last edited on 3 February 2026, at 17:03 (CET).