Malls · Tennessee

Eastgate Mall (Chattanooga)

From the authors' mapReinhabitedPartly retrofittedChattanooga, TN

Opened 1962. Partial Reinhabited in 2000. · from the fields below

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Finance and pipeline

On Facebook

This site: …https://www.facebook.com/1641667969482375 overture · all sites with this

Website alive

This site: …http://www.eastgatecenter.net/ overture / http check · all sites with this

Place

30,000+ vehicles a day on an adjacent road

This site: 105,156 on 24 fhwa-hpms · all sites with this

Grocery within 800 m

This site: 3 stores openstreetmap · all sites with this

High inland flooding risk

This site: Relatively High fema-nri · all sites with this

High social vulnerability tract (SVI ≥ 0.75)

This site: 0.91 cdc-svi · all sites with this

High tornado risk

This site: Relatively High fema-nri · all sites with this

Interstate or freeway within 600 m

This site: 24 fhwa-hpms · all sites with this

Lower-income tract (< $50k)

This site: $49,500 census-acs · all sites with this

National Register place within 500 m

This site: Brainerd Mission Cemetery nps-nrhp · all sites with this

Tract house prices doubled in 10 years

This site: +161% fhfa · all sites with this

Walkable block group (EPA ≥ 12)

This site: …index 15.2 epa-walkability · all sites with this

Scale

Building footprint 50,000+ m²

This site: 65,765 m² overture · all sites with this

Strategy

Reinhabited

This site: Partial reinhabitation: office record · all sites with this

New use

Office

This site: Partial reinhabitation: office arcgis-webmap · all sites with this

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From the authors' map

TN, Chattanooga: Eastgate Mall/ Eastgate Town Center, 2000
• Partial reinhabitation: office

Now

Status	Partly retrofittedauthors' map reported
Strategy	Partial Reinhabitedauthors' map reported
What is there now	Partial reinhabitation: officeauthors' map reported
Retrofit year	2000authors' map reported

Securitised debt and public filers

Filings (2001 to date) that name “Eastgate Mall” and “Chattanooga” (228 hits, first 100 sampled). Common name: these matches are unreliable. No commercial-mortgage trust names this mall in the sample, which does not rule out a securitised loan. Text matches, not a title search. Open the search · all trusts.

Kind	Filer	Filings	Dates	Forms
Public owner (strong)	CBL & ASSOCIATES PROPERTIES INC (CBL)	100	2001-01-19 to 2022-08-16	8-K 84, 10-K 11, 8-K/A 4, 10-K/A 1
Public owner (weak)	CBL & ASSOCIATES LIMITED PARTNERSHIP	39	2013-11-06 to 2021-11-16	8-K 35, 8-K/A 2, 10-K 2

Site context

FEMA flood zone	X · AREA WITH REDUCED FLOOD RISK DUE TO LEVEEFEMA NFHL
EPA-regulated facilities within 500 m	6: EXXON CO USA #50464; GOODYEAR STORE #3523; MIDTOWN PATHWAY; NATIONAL TIRE & BATTERY #8660; NTW LLC DBA NATIONAL TIRE & BATTERY - NTB # 660EPA FRS
Census tract 47065003000	2,396 people, 2,222 per sq mi; median household income $49,500; median gross rent $1,268; 40% renters; 8.2% vacant units; 1.8% commute by transitACS 2023 5-year
Walkability (EPA, block group)	index 15.2 of 20; 62 intersections per sq mi; nearest transit stop 549 m; land-use mix 0.86; 59,525 jobs within 45 min by car, 35,677 by transit; 8% of households without a carEPA Smart Location
Within a 10–15 minute walk (800 m)	4 of 6 daily needs: 3 grocers, 0 schools, 3 parks or playgrounds, 0 health, 3 civic, 19 food and drink; 3 cycleway segments, 2 sidewalk-tagged segmentsOpenStreetMap
Opportunity Zone	noHUD
National Register places within 500 m	1: Brainerd Mission CemeteryNPS
Housing permits, Hamilton County (TN), 2024	405 units in 5+ unit buildings, 188 in 2–4, 1,537 single-family; 2023: 522 in 5+Census BPS
Social vulnerability (CDC SVI 2022, tract)	overall percentile 0.91; socioeconomic 0.87; housing and transport 0.64; 26% below 150% of poverty; 7% of households with no vehicleCDC/ATSDR
Other atlas sites nearby	0 within 10 km, 1 within 25 kmcomputed
Overture Maps	place Eastgate Town Center (shopping_mall, confidence 0.34, from Overture, Overture-signals, meta); building footprint 65,765 m²Overture (CDLA-Permissive 2.0)
Website and social	www.eastgatecenter.net (alive); archived 2016–2026 (Wayback) · social: facebookOverture / Internet Archive
Attention: Wikipedia page views	8,273 since 2015; 1,200 in the last 12 months (-19% vs the prior 12); peak 2024-07 with 199Wikimedia
Tract change 2013–2023	population -1% (2,428 → 2,396); median income +54% ($32,156 → $49,500); renters 50% → 40%; median home value +68% ($92,700 → $156,200)Census ACS 5-year
Natural hazard risk (FEMA National Risk Index, tract)	relatively moderate overall (score 72.0); expected annual loss $2.2M; high: tornado, inland flooding; community resilience relatively highFEMA NRI
Tax-credit housing within 1 km	noneHUD LIHTC
Retail trade in the county, 2025 (BLS QCEW)	21,359 jobs in 1,512 establishments; average annual pay $40,607; employment location quotient 0.98; employment +1.3% on the yearBLS QCEW 2025, NAICS 44-45, private
Jobs located in the tract, 2022	2,896 jobs; 527 in retail trade, 296 in accommodation and food (workplace blocks summed to tract 47065003000)Census LEHD LODES8 WAC 2022
Upward mobility (Opportunity Atlas, 2010 tract)	children of low-income (25th percentile) families reached the 39th income percentile as adults; 2.2% incarcerated at the 2010 count (363 children in the sample); born 1978–83, measured 2014–15Opportunity Insights
Food access (USDA FARA 2019, 2010 tract)	not a low-access tract at 1 mile; poverty rate 15.8%; median family income $44,265; 194 SNAP householdsUSDA ERS
Schools	Hamilton County School District (PK-12); 1 public school within 1 mile: Barger Academy of Fine ArtsNCES EDGE
Elevation	674 ft above sea level at the site pointUSGS 3DEP
Storm events in the county, 2016-2025	189 county-logged events: 124 thunderstorm wind, 32 flash flood, 19 hail, 7 flood; $9,639,000 property damage reported; 8 direct deaths; forecast-zone events (most flood, winter and heat) not countedNOAA Storm Events
Homes for sale in ZIP 37411, 2026-09	median list price $277,500 (+0.5% on the year); 85 active listings; median 70 days on market; 25% with a price cutRealtor.com Research
Retail trade in the county, 2012 to 2023	1,440 establishments (+3%); 23,819 jobs (+19%)Census CBP
Housing market in the county	typical home value $348,511 (-1% 1 yr, +22% 5 yr); typical rent $1,515/mo (+2% 1 yr), 2026-09Zillow Research
House price index, tract, 2025	324 (2000 = 100); +13.6% 1 yr, +75% 5 yr, +161% 10 yrFHFA
Traffic on the busiest road within 600 m (2024)	105,156 vehicles a day on 24 (Interstate, 6 lanes); 21,661 trucks; 26 counted segmentsFHWA HPMS

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Elsewhere on the web

Retail history: Eastgate Mall on DeadMalls.com photos, field notes and visitor memories since 2000; matched by name and city; nothing copied here

Pages with photos

Mallmanac.com: Eastgate Town Center, Chattanoo… mallmanac.com
DEAD MALL: Eastgate Town Center - Chattanooga, TN. A liminal wonderland with a lovely fountain. youtube.com
Eastgate Towne Center - Wikiwand wikiwand.com
Sky City: Retail History: Eastgate Mall: Chattanooga, TN skycity2.blogspot.com
Eastgate Mall (Eastgate Town Center) | I don't kno… flickr.com
About - Eastgate Town Center eastgatecenter.net
5600 Brainerd Rd, Chattanooga, TN 37411 - Eastgate Town Center | LoopNet loopnet.com

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Multifamily screen

retrofit already built
county grew 3.7% 2018–23

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History and original facts

Now called / also known as	Eastgate Town Center
Opened	1962Wikidata
County	Hamilton County
Census division	6 · East South Central

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Background

Eastgate Towne Center, formerly known as Eastgate Mall is an enclosed office and retail complex in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Excerpt from Wikipedia (authors and history), CC BY-SA 4.0. May be older than the record above.

Timeline

1962 Opened (Wikidata)
2000 Retrofit: reinhabit

Sources

Retrofitting Suburbia Interactive Mall Map (ArcGIS web map ce33ab26…) · 2021-01-20
Wikipedia: Eastgate Mall (Chattanooga) · 2024-04-09 · CC BY-SA 4.0

Cite

Retrofit Atlas (2026). "Eastgate Mall, Chattanooga, TN." Record m-c6d47476f0, from the authors' map. Built on the public Retrofitting Suburbia map (Dunham-Jones and Williamson) and the sources listed. https://retrofitatlas.org/malls/tn/chattanooga-eastgate-mall/ (accessed 2026-10-21).

BibTeX

@misc{retrofitatlas_chattanoogaeastgatemall,
  title = {Eastgate Mall, Chattanooga, TN},
  author = {{Retrofit Atlas}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://retrofitatlas.org/malls/tn/chattanooga-eastgate-mall/}},
  year = {2026},
  note = {Record m-c6d47476f0, release 2026-10-21, tier: curated. Built on the Retrofitting Suburbia map (Dunham-Jones and Williamson) and the sources listed on the record. Accessed 2026-10-21}
}

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