Kingsport Town Center - Kingsport, TN - A mall in Kingsport, Tennessee that caters to families

Kingsport Town Center is located at 2101 Fort Henry Drive in Kingsport, Tennessee. When it originally opened during the first part of 1976 it was the Fort Henry Mall. It is still the only mall that serves the Kingsport area. It is a two level mall at the intersection of Memorial Boulevard and Fort Henry Drive. Somera Capital Management owns the mall which the General Growth Properties manages.

Kingsport Town Center is anchored by Sears, JC Penney and Belk. There are seventy-five stores and services offered at the center in order to make patron's experience as pleasant as possible. The goal of the Kingsport Town Center is to create an environment that welcomes families and for their convenience the mall is open seven days a week.

Kingsport Town Center is open from ten in the morning until nine at night Monday through Saturday. On Sunday the mall is open from noon until six in the evening. The mall is closed for Thanksgiving and Christmas. There are special hours for the rest of the holiday season that can be obtained by contacting the mall directly. The hours of the stores occupying the Kingsport Town Center may vary from those of the mall itself and should be contacted individually to obtain.

The Kingsport Town Center offers a number of amenities and services to make the shopping experience more enjoyable for its patrons. Those that find that they are in need of more funds to continue shopping can solve this problem with the ATM in mall. If you lock yourself out of your car or find that it will not start you can get assistance to unlock it or have it jump started.

The Kingsport Town Center also offers services for faxing and copying. The Lost and Found assists customers that have either found or lost items in the mall. There is a family restroom to make shopping with children easier, as well as stroller rentals and a Kid's Club. The mall offers wheelchairs and a Notary Public. Patrons can also pick up a newspaper while they are shopping so they do not have to stop again on the way home. Additional information about the services and amenities offered by the Kingsport Town Center can be obtained by contacting the mall's customer service department.

When Somera Capital Management obtained the mall during 2007 at a cost of nearly $53 million dollars it did not take long to announce plans for renovations. It was after this purchase that the name changed from the Fort Henry Mall to the Kingsport Town Center. The company hopes to have the renovations complete by 2011 to update it from the 1970's design to a more modern facility.

The Kingsport Town Center is due to be expanded during the renovations and have more business added to the facilities. The plans also call for relocating a major anchor closer to the incoming traffic and connecting it to the mall with the use of a promenade type area. This area is to hold shops with a walkway in front and a courtyard.

The new owners plan to extend the portion of the Kingsport Town Center that is at the mall's theater entrance. By the time the renovations to the facilities are complete the facility is expected to go from 530,000 sq ft to 634,000 sq ft including the out parcels.