Alright, quick moment of Indianapolis nostalgia here.
If you ever spent time downtown in the mid-Nineties, odds are you walked through Circle Centre Mall. When that place opened back in 1995, it was the spot — wall-to-wall people, packed escalators, and you couldn’t take five steps without running into someone you knew. It felt like the whole city showed up that first weekend.
Fast-forward to this winter… very different scene. A few lights still on, a handful of stores hanging on, and workers boxing things up as Circle Centre quietly wrapped things up. The mall officially closed on New Year’s Eve at seven o’clock — right before we rang in 2026.
Some folks stopped by just to walk it one last time. A little nostalgia, a few memories, maybe a last look at where you bought concert tickets or killed time before a Pacers game.
But this isn’t the end of the story. Developers say the enclosed mall is going away, replaced by an open-air downtown neighborhood — think shops, restaurants, apartments, offices, and public spaces, all designed to bring some energy back to the heart of Indy.
So yeah… Circle Centre Mall is officially closed. One era ends, another one gets ready to begin — and downtown Indianapolis turns the page.