Biggs Park Mall Plans $18M Renovation With Three New Retailers

Biggs Park Mall in Lumberton will add TJ Maxx, Burlington, and Five Below as part of an $18 million makeover. The work also covers updates for Belk, Maurice's, Shoe Show, Tomlinson's, and Bath & Body Works.

Beginning Feb. 16., workers will convert the old JCPenney space into spots for the three incoming stores. A small enclosed section will remain open for seasonal events, but most of the mall will shift toward an open-air shopping center.

K.M. Biggs Inc. has held the property since 1903, when the family launched a mercantile business in downtown Lumberton. K.M. Biggs ran that original operation alone. The business became a corporation in 1934. Back then, it sold groceries, hardware, and farm supplies.

In 1957, the Biggs family created Biggs Park Inc. to develop a 22-acre tract near the city's Tanglewood residential area. Five years later, stores opened there: Woods Stores, Winn-Dixie, Sherwin-Williams, Shoe Show, JCPenney, and Sugar's Men's Store.

The company built Robeson County's first enclosed mall in 1984, replacing part of the strip center. Belk, Tomlinson, and JCPenney anchored it, with national chains like Waldenbooks, Foot Locker, and Radio Shack filling other spaces.

Ashland Construction of Charlotte will build it. Bondurant & Associates of Portsmouth, Virginia, designed it. Pembroke-based Lumbee Guaranty Bank is paying for it.