It is managed and owned by Simon Property Group, the successor of the same company that built it.

On opening day, the mall was 93 percent occupied, consisting of 685,000 square feet (63,600 m2) of shop space along with the three department stores.

[3] Among the tenants of the mall at the time were a McCrory dime store,[4] Piccadilly Restaurants,[5] and Osco Drug.

At the same time, the original location of Dillard's in the mall was sold to Famous-Barr.

The addition of Dillard's South allowed the chain to offer a greater variety of merchandise between the two stores.