The Streets at Southpoint is a shopping mall in Durham, North Carolina. Located near I-40, on Fayetteville Road, the mall was developed by Urban Retail Properties and is currently owned and managed by Brookfield Properties, a subsidiary of Brookfield Asset Management. The Streets at Southpoint opened in 2002. , the mall is anchored by AMC Theatres and department stores Belk, J. C. Penney, Macy's, and Nordstrom. Previous anchors include Consolidated Theatres and department stores Hecht's and Sears. History The Streets at Southpoint took four years of planning and over two years of construction. It opened on March 8, 2002, with anchors Hecht's (now Macy's), Sears, JCPenney, Belk, and Nordstrom. The mall had around 300,000 visitors during its first three days of operation. The mall is home to many firsts for the area, including North Carolina's first Nordstrom and Apple Store. Other stores that were new to the Research Triangle area included Aveda, California Pizza Kitchen, Hollister Co., and Pottery Barn Kids. The Streets at Southpoint was the first mall to come to the Durham area in nearly three decades. The opening of the mall was chosen as the most important story of the year in Durham's Top 10 Business Stories of 2002. On December 28, 2018, Sears announced it would be shuttering its location at the mall as part of a plan to close 80 stores nationwide. The store closed in March 2019. Southpoint Cinemas is an AMC movie megaplex that totals more than 56,000 square feet. The cinema is open 365 days a year. List of anchor stores Architecture The Streets at Southpoint was designed and developed by Urban Retail Properties with an old-fashioned Main Street concept. RTKL Associates Inc. served as the architect and also provided environmental graphic design services, incorporating the logo design throughout the development, reinforcing the shopping center's identity. The mall is a "hybrid mall," combining a traditional enclosed mall with an outdoor pedestrian wing. A 70-feet glass wall separates the two portions of the mall. The Streets at Southpoint's developer, Jim Farrell, wanted to add to the Main Street feel, envisaging playing children as a fixture of the mall. He enlisted A.R.T. Design Group to create statues of some of the children of local leaders. There are 23 statues in total throughout the mall, taking three years to create. Over 2 million red bricks were used to line both the exterior and interior of