High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Eastland Mall was a shopping mall in Charlotte, North Carolina. The center opened in 1975 as the then-largest mall in North Carolina with three anchor department stores, Belk, J.C. Penney and Ivey's, and a Sears store joined four years later.Burlington Coat Factory, the mall's final anchor, has closed, leaving all anchors vacant. The mall was owned by Glimcher Realty Trust and the City of Charlotte. Glimcher requested the mall be put into receivership due to heavy debt, and there have been reports of the mall entering foreclosure. LNR sold the interior space in the mall to Boxer Properties of Houston for $2 million. It has ceased operations as of June 30, 2010, but the city of Charlotte has purchased the property from Boxer Properties, and the owners of the vacant anchors for $13.2 million dollars, in hopes for selling it to a developer. While closed, the city of Charlotte is still expected to keep the mall secure, safe and tended to as...