The former Sears property at Northgate Mall has been sold, with plans to tear down the onetime Hixson anchor store to make way for a BJ’s Wholesale Club, an official said Monday.
“BJ’s will be happy there,” Bassam Issa, a developer who sold the land with mall company CBL Properties, said in a phone interview. “Northgate is a good central location.”
Issa said the 158,000-square-foot former Sears, a fixture at the Hixson mall that opened in 1972, will be demolished by the former owners and then turned over to BJ’s early next year.
“They’ll take over in March,” he said about the old Sears site that closed in 2019. The purchase price wasn’t announced.