Once home to the region’s largest Macy’s department store, and the first Starbucks in the state of Tennessee, Oak Court Mall, 4465 Poplar Avenue in Memphis, is scheduled to be demolished.

A new, unnamed development will be constructed at the location.

The 850,000-square-foot mall, which opened in 1968, began as a freestanding, 3-story Goldsmith’s, a Memphis-based department store, in 1961.

In the early 1970s, Goldsmith’s constructed a 3-story structure immediately to the west of the existing store. The upper two levels of this structure served as parking, while the bottom level was connected to the first floor of the existing store and served as additional retail space.

In the late 1970s, Goldsmith’s once again expanded with an addition of the original building to the north. This addition contained two floors of above ground retail space. A portion of this expansion was converted to Goldsmith’s Furniture Gallery in the late 1980s when the rest of the mall was built.

In 1986, Belz Enterprises began construction on the mall immediately to the west of Goldsmith’s. The first floor of the mall was constructed below ground while the second floor was at ground level. The mall opened in 1988 with the anchors of Lord & Taylor and Goldsmith’s.

Lord & Taylor closed its store in 1992. The former Lord & Taylor store became Dillard’s, which was formerly located in Poplar Plaza. In 1995, Dillard’s built a store expansion in the center court of the mall for the men’s and children’s store while the existing Dillard’s on the west end of the mall became the women’s store.

In 2005, Federated Department Stores rebranded all of the Goldsmith’s locations as Macy’s.