Castner Knott
Castner Knott Company was a Nashville, Tennessee-based regional department store chain which operated stores in Kentucky and Alabama, along with Tennessee. The chain was in business for a century from 1898 to 1998, in its later years as a division of Mercantile Stores Company.
Castner Knott's historic flagship location on Nashville's Church Street closed in 1996, while the remaining stores were among those sold to Little Rock, Arkansas-based Dillard's, when it acquired Mercantile in 1998. The five high-volume mall stores (Bellevue Center, CoolSprings Galleria, Hickory Hollow Mall, The Mall at Green Hills and Rivergate Mall) in the greater Nashville area, where Dillard's already had locations, were sold to Saks Incorporated and rebranded as Proffitt's. The stores were then sold in 2001 to May Company, who, in turn, rebranded these locations as Hecht's. In 2006, those stores were converted to the Macy's name as a result of the May Company-Federated Department Stores merger. Macy's would eventually close the Bellevue Center and Hickory Hollow Mall locations, following the decline of those malls as a whole.
Locations
- Alabama
- Decatur
- Florence
- Florence Mall
- Huntsville
- Madison Square Mall
- Parkway City Mall
- Kentucky
- Bowling Green
- Tennessee
- Franklin
- Murfreesboro
- Nashville
- Bellevue Center
- Castner-Knott Building (Church Street; flagship store; adjacent to the failed Church Street Centre mall in the early 1990s; closed 1996)
- Donelson Plaza
- The Mall at Green Hills
- Harding Mall
- Hickory Hollow Mall
- Rivergate Mall
See also
References
External links
- Castner Knott reunion website, with details on history from former employees and vendors