Prince of Orange Mall is a regional enclosed shopping mall in Orangeburg, South Carolina, in the United States. It is located on the northern end of town, at the edge of the city limits. It is anchored by Belk. The JCPenney anchor store closed in 2020, while the Sears anchor closed in 2013.Sears preparing to close in May The Times and Democrat, January 28, 2013 The fourth anchor, Key Catalog Showroom, was demolished in 2015.
Background The mall was built in 1984 by Orangeburg Associates. They sold it to National Property Analysts in 1986.
It currently has approximately in retail space, of which is occupied by the anchor tenants.Market Information, princeoforangemall.com, Retrieved April 20, 2010 It is the only enclosed mall in the greater Orangeburg area, approximately south of the larger metropolitan center of Columbia and northwest of Charleston.
Hull Storey Gibson Companies, a regional owner of shopping malls, purchased the mall in 1998 when it was in foreclosure. At that point, the food court had no tenants and the mall was only at 70 percent occupancy. The mall was subsequently renovated and occupancy increased.
The mall is named after William IV, Prince of Orange, for which the town is also named.Atkinson, Gene. Orangeburg, p.8 (Arcadia Publishing 2002) ()
On June 4, 2020, JCPenney announced that it would close around October 2020 as part of a plan to close 154 stores nationwide. After JCPenney closed, Belk is the only remaining anchor store left.
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