Lenox Square

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Aerial view of Lenox Square with JW Marriott Hotel in background.

Lenox Square, owned by the Simon Property Group, is a shopping mall located in the Buckhead neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States. It was the first major shopping mall in Georgia.

It opened in August 1959 and was originally an open-air mall anchored by Rich's, Davison's (later known as Macy's) and a Colonial grocery store. There were 60 original tenants, including a bowling alley and a Kresge 5 and 10. In 1960, Lenox Square began an annual tradition of hosting what would later become the largest Independence day fireworks displays in the Southeast. A cinema opened in June 1963.

In the early 1970s, Lenox Square was enclosed to compete with the newer enclosed malls that had opened in the region. The enclosure of the mall was undertaken in tandem with the construction of a new wing, which included Georgia's first and only Neiman Marcus. A second expansion was completed in 1980 that added a three-level section at the back of the mall and a food court, as well as a connection to MARTA's Lenox transit station that opened after service to an extension of the transit system's North Line commenced in December 1984.

In 1991, with the closure of Rich's in downtown Atlanta, the Rich's at Lenox Square became the chain's flagship. In 1995, the mall opened its largest expansion yet, adding a second story above the original one-level section. The expansion made Lenox Square, at the time, the largest shopping center in the Southeast, with 1.5 million square feet divided among 240 stores and restaurants.

With the elimination of the Rich's brand by Federated Department Stores in 2005, the Rich's location at Lenox Square became the flagship of the Macy's South division, while the erstwhile Macy's location at the mall closed for remodeling to reopen as a Bloomingdale's. In 2006, the Simon Property Group launched a fourth expansion project, extending the second story completed in 1995 over the Neiman Marcus wing of the complex.

Lenox Square is connected via walkway to the 27-story JW Marriott Buckhead hotel, classifed as a 4-star hotel by the AAA. It is today the sister mall to Phipps Plaza, located diagonally across the intersection of Lenox and Peachtree roads.