Edgewood Mall, the first enclosed shopping center in McComb, was built in 1987 by Prescott Sherman. Anchored by JCPenney, Beall-Ladymon, and Walmart, the mall opened its doors in July 1987 with a total of retail space. The mall was built on land owned by the Sherman family. In 1994, the Beall-Ladymon chain was bought out and converted to a Stage department store in early 1995. Sears replaced the former Walmart anchor space, vacated in 1998 when Walmart built a Supercenter next door, in March 1999. A major overhaul of the mall in 1999 included a expansion of the JCPenney anchor, construction of an additional of space for specialty shops, and addition of fourth large anchor, Mississippi-based McRae's. This expansion, capped by a grand re-opening in September 1999, left the mall with over of retail space. In 2002, Mississippi Business Journal reported that Prescott Sherman had given $2 million to the School of Engineering at the University of Mississippi from the Edgewood Mall. Sears closed in 2012. A Hobby Lobby replaced half of the Sears anchor space in 2015, making the store the only non-enclosed store of Edgewood Mall to date. In 2016, Marshall's took the other half of the former Sears anchor space. In 2019, Stage Stores announced that it would converted all of its stores to Gordmans, including the Goody's at Edgewood Mall. This conversion will take place in 2020.
Anchors
JCPenney - original tenant
Belk -.; opened as McRae's in 1999, converted in March 2006
Goody's - opened as Beall-Ladymon, Beall-Ladymon chain bought out in 1994, converted to Stage in early 1995. Stage Department Store was later converted to Goody's back in September 2011. To be converted to Gordmans in 2020.
Hobby Lobby - opened in 2015 in half of the former Sears.
Marshalls - opened in 2016 in the other half of the former Sears, space opened as Walmart which relocated to a new Supercenter in 1998, then later replaced by Sears in March 1999 and closed in 2012.
Other stores
The mall's junior anchor is Lott Furniture. Other notable stores in the mall include Beall St., Foot Locker, Hibbett Sporting Goods, Rue21, Factory Connection, and nail salon. A KB Toys which had opened during the mall's 1999 expansion was closed due to the toy chain's bankruptcy in 2004. The mall's Kirkland's location closed in 2005.
Expansion area
Edgewood Mall attract lots of people for portions of Southwest Mississippi, a lot from Louisiana, Alabama, and some from Tennessee and Arkansas who are on a travel or road trip. Ever since the mall's expansion grew out, more people coming to visit the mall by day.
The Mississippi Highway Patrol's driver's license examiner's office relocated from the Magnolia Community Center in Magnolia, Mississippi, to Edgewood Mall in 2001. Opening its doors on September 4, 2001, this office was located at the north entrance of the mall between JCPenney and McRae's. In February 2007, the Mississippi Department of Public Safety announced that the office was being forced to relocate by the end of March 2007 because their space in the mall had been acquired by another party.
