Augusta Mall - Augusta, Georgia - Retail Shopping Center with Two Food Courts

Augusta Mall, a super-regional lifestyle center mall complete with an 180,000-square-foot promenade, is located at 3450 Wrightsboro Road in Augusta, Georgia. The mall is open from 10am until 9pm, Monday through Saturday, and from 12pm until 6pm on Sunday. First opening its doors on August 3, 1978, the shopping center is the largest mall in the Augusta metro area and one of the largest in the state of Georgia at 1.3 million-square-feet, featuring 140 plus specialty stores and two food courts. Managed by General Growth Properties, the mall is anchored by Dillard's, JCPenney, Sears, Macy's, Dick's Sporting Goods, and Barnes & Noble. Statistically, 71 percent of the 510,633 area residents whose median household income is $59,313 shop at Augusta Mall more often than at any other nearby retail shopping center. However, in April 2009 it was announced that the owner of the shopping center, General Growth Properties, filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The mall though, is not in danger of closing down but does stand the possibility of being sold to another owner.

Augusta Mall has a club that is free to join and membership includes a monthly email highlighting the best discounts and offers available from mall stores, restaurants and partners. Each month that a person remains a club member they are entered for a chance to win a $100 mall-shopping spree. The Club also provides members the opportunity to earn points toward free mall gift cards by signing up for Club Rewards. Online surveys are then sent to members via email and survey points are tracked in a survey profile. American Express GGP mall gift cards can also be purchased through the mall website and are accepted by all mall merchants who accept American Express credit cards.

Uniformed officers provide security services 24 hours a day, everyday of the year. Security officers working for the Augusta Mall Security Department carry two-way communication devices and patrol officers drive in marked vehicles as to make them easily recognizable and available. Additionally, for reasons of safety, the mall participates in AMBER alert notifications by displaying signage within the mall when there is a missing child in the area. General Growth Properties also has a partnership with Habitat for Humanity International and offers shoppers the opportunity to do volunteer work and participate in fundraising events and awareness campaigns.

Travelers recommend staying at one of the two nearby hotels, either the Holiday Inn Gordon Highway or the Staybridge Suites Augusta, if planning to visit the mall while in the area. Nearly all shoppers who reviewed the mall were extremely pleased with the variety and newness of the stores. Though the shopping center is the largest in the area, people who visited recommend making a weekday trip versus a weekend trip cautioning that there are an abundance of teens congregating within the retail complex at any given time on weekends.