Middlesboro Mall is an enclosed shopping mall in Middlesboro, Kentucky, on U.S. Route 25E. It includes over 26 stores and services. Anchor stores are Belk, JCPenney and Roses and a cinema owned by AMC Theatres.HistoryThe mall is part of a retail business concentration that developed along U.S. 25E beginning in the late 1960s. It opened in October 1983 with Belk, JCPenney, Kmart and an array of specialty merchants. The mall's first owner was David Hocker and Associates. The mall is an important retail center for a large rural area in the mountains of eastern Kentucky and nearby Tennessee.Sears joined the mall in June 1987 with a 16500ft2 store, then added another in 1989. Kmart closed on June 1, 2002. Roses opened to fill the Kmart store in 2010. Sears left in November 2012 and opened a new store north of the Mall on U.S. Route 25E.Since 2004, the mall has been owned by Ershig Properties, which is based in Henderson, Kentucky.