Charlestowne Mall was a shopping mall located in St. Charles, Illinois, United States. It was the second mall to serve the city after St. Charles Mall. Built by Wilmorite Properties, Charlestowne Mall opened for business in April 1991. Its original anchor stores were Kohl's, JCPenney, Sears, and Carson's (then known as Carson Pirie Scott). Regal Cinemas added a movie theater in 1999 which was sold to Classic Cinemas two years later, while JCPenney closed in 2000 and was converted in 2001 to Von Maur. The mall began experiencing a decline in tenancy in the 21st century due to its size, its location, and the opening of Geneva Commons in Geneva, Illinois in 2002. Although Wilmorite sold most of its shopping malls to Macerich in 2005, Charlestowne Mall was not included in the sale; it then changed ownership multiple times, with many of the following owners announcing plans to renovate it. None of these plans were executed, and many stores closed over time, including Sears in 2011 and Kohl's in 2016. The mall was entirely closed in 2017 except for the movie theater, Von Maur, and Carson's, which itself closed a year later. The vacant mall is owned by Urban Street Group. History Wilmorite Properties, a shopping mall developer based in suburban Rochester, New York, first announced the plans for Charlestowne Mall in 1989. The developers chose a site east of St. Charles, Illinois, on Illinois Route 64. The plans called for a two-story shopping mall spanning more than with three anchor stores: JCPenney, Sears, and Carson Pirie Scott and Company (later known as Carson's). Charlestowne Mall would be Wilmorite's first development outside the state of New York. Wilmorite chose the location due to projected residential growth in DuPage and Kane counties, the two counties in which the city of St. Charles is located. The first store at the mall to open was Sears, which did so on April 2, 1991. Sears' store was opened ahead of the rest of the mall due to it having already been stocked with merchandise. Wilmorite delayed opening of the mall and Carson's until August 1991, and JCPenney did not open until early 1992. John R. Kraus, then a representative of Wilmorite, stated that the delay was due to company concerns about the nation's economy after the Gulf War; he also thought that delaying the mall's opening would allow it to benefit from back to