University Place

University Place may refer to:

University Place (Chapel Hill, North Carolina)

University Place (formerly known as University Mall) is the only enclosed shopping mall in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. University Place is owned and operated by Madison Marquette of Washington D.C. The mall is anchored by Southern Season. The gross leasable area of the center is 366,000 square feet. The mall is located about two miles northeast from downtown and The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Today the mall has an even mix of national and local stores, with a focus on specialty retailers.

History

The mall originally opened with Ivey's and Hudson Belk in 1973, and Roses Stores as a junior anchor. Ivey's became Dillard's in 1990. In 2002, after The Streets at Southpoint was completed, Belk closed its store at the mall and South Square Mall store in Durham and consolidated both stores into one larger store at Southpoint. Upmarket gourmet retailer Southern Season bought and renovated the former Belk space in 2003. The mall received an exterior and interior renovation 2010.

University Place (Manhattan)

University Place is a short north–south thoroughfare in Manhattan, New York City, which runs from Washington Square Park in the south as a continuation of Washington Square East, taking the position of Madison Avenue uptown, and terminates at East 14th Street just southwest of Union Square. Although the roadway continues north of 14th Street as Union Square West, the two streets run in opposite directions (University Place uptown, and Union Square West downtown), both feeding into 14th Street. Until the late 1990s, University Place was a two-way street.

University Place was formerly part of Wooster Street, but received a new name in 1838, a year after New York University's first building opened on Washington Square. The street was the original location of the Union Theological Seminary in 1838, and the New York Society Library moved there in 1856.

The street contains numerous shops and restaurants, many of which cater to students at NYU and the New School.

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