Lakeside Shopping Center


Lakeside Shopping Center, also known as Lakeside Center, is a mall located at 3301 Veterans Memorial Boulevard in the New Orleans suburb of Metairie, Louisiana. It first opened on March 24, 1960, as the first regional shopping mall in New Orleans and is the largest and one of the busiest malls in the New Orleans metro area. Lakeside is a mall with four major retail anchors. There are also more than 120 stores and restaurants. Lakeside once operated a 5-screen movie theater in a satellite complex near Dillard's but competition from newer stadium style theaters forced its closure and its eventual demolition for additional satellite retail space in 2000. The smaller Clearview Mall, a property opened in 1966 and located about to the West on Veterans Memorial Boulevard, had never operated a movie theater on its property since its opening. That mall greatly expanded its food court and added 12 screens with stadium style seating in 2001. On June 4, 2020, it was announced that JCPenney would be closing as part of a plan to close 154 stores nationwide. The store will close in October 2020.

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The mall suffered only minor damage from Hurricane Katrina.