{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2025}} {{Use American English|date=February 2025}} {{Infobox shopping mall | name = Columbus Place | native_name = | native_name_lang = | logo = | logo_width = | image = | image_width = | caption = | location = Columbus, Mississippi, U.S. | coordinates = {{Coord|33.5116|-88.4314|type:landmark_region:US-MS|display=inline,title}} | address = 1404 Old Aberdeen Rd. | opening_date = 1973 | closing_date = | developer = Jim Wilson & Associates | manager = | owner = Hull Property Group | architect = | number_of_stores = 30+ | number_of_anchors = 6 (5 open, 1 vacant) | floor_area = {{convert|319384|sqft|m2}}<ref name="dispatch">{{cite web | url=https://www.cdispatch.com/news/article.asp?aid=76680 | title=Leigh Mall auction begins today | work=The Dispatch | date=October 15, 2019 | accessdate=January 29, 2020}}</ref> | floors = 1 | parking = | publictransit = | website = | footnotes = | embedded = }} '''Columbus Place''', formerly '''Leigh Mall''', is a shopping mall in Columbus, Mississippi, United States,<ref>{{cite web|title=Leigh Mall under pressure to repave|url=http://www.cdispatch.com/news/article.asp?aid=41614|website=The Dispatch| date=27 April 2015 |accessdate=10 January 2016}}</ref> constructed in 1973 and marketed by Sterling Properties. The anchor stores{{When|date=January 2024}} were Dollar Tree, Hobby Lobby, Planet Fitness, and Burke's Outlet,<ref name="dispatch"/> with a vacant anchor store that was once JCPenney. In 2019 it was purchased at auction for US$3.5 million by the Hull Property Group, which after much demolition and rebuilding renamed it Columbus Place in 2023.<ref>{{cite news| last=McLaughlin | first=Grant | title=Goodbye Leigh Mall; hello Columbus Place | newspaper=The Dispatch | date=27 April 2023 | url=https://cdispatch.com/news/goodbye-leigh-mall-hello-columbus-place/}}</ref>
==History== Leigh Mall was built in 1973 by Jim Wilson & Associates and sold to Equitable Real Estate in 1987.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/185237561/ | title=Investment group buys 2 north Mississippi malls | work=Clarion Ledger | date=March 24, 1987 | accessdate=January 29, 2020 | pages=8B}}</ref> J. C. Penney and Sears were the original anchor stores.<ref name="dispatch"/>
Sears closed in 2012 and became Hobby Lobby one year later.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.wcbi.com/video-leigh-mall-welcoming-a-new-tenant/ | title=Leigh Mall welcoming a new tenant | work=WCBI | date=December 18, 2013 | accessdate=January 29, 2020}}</ref> J. C. Penney closed in 2017.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.clarionledger.com/story/business/2017/03/17/jc-penney-store-closures/99301878/ | title=5 Miss. JCPenney stores to close | work=Clarion Ledger | date=March 17, 2017 | accessdate=January 29, 2020}}</ref> The mall was sold at auction in 2019, at which point it was about 57 percent occupied.<ref name="dispatch"/>
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{{Shopping malls in Mississippi}}
Category:Hull Property Group Category:Shopping malls in Mississippi Category:Shopping malls established in 1973 Category:1973 establishments in Mississippi Category:Buildings and structures in Lowndes County, Mississippi Category:Shopping malls developed by Jim Wilson & Associates