* Macy's ( 252, 243 sq ft .) ( Opened as Bamberger's )

* Macy's ( 425, 000 ft² ) Opened 1956-4 Floors ( 3 above, 1 below )

* Bloomingdale's Opened 1959 as Davison's with name changed to Macy's in 1986.

( Opened in 1973 as Montgomery Ward, demolished and rebuilt as Kaufmann's, converted to Macy's 2006 )

Opened in 1973, the mall is currently managed and co-owned by The Macerich Company, a real estate investment trust, and is anchored by Macy's, Nordstrom, JCPenney and Sears.

** Macy's Home & Furniture Store ( 145, 776 ft² ; opened 1959 as The Broadway, reduced 1996 )

Panthersville is home to the Gallery at South DeKalb, formerly South DeKalb Mall, a regional shopping center with a Macy's ( former Rich's ) department store.

In early 2003 Federated closed the majority of its historic Davison's franchise in Atlanta ( operating as Macy's since 1985 ), rebranding its other Atlanta division Rich's with the unwieldy name, Rich's – Macy's.

Nearly two years earlier, one of the first national commercials for Macy's had aired during Desperate Housewives, shortly after the conversion of Rich's, Lazarus, Goldsmith's, The Bon Marché and Burdines.

Following Federated Department Stores ' ( now Macy's, Inc .) decision to consolidate nameplates 2003, the Rich's store at Mall of Georgia was dual-branded as Rich's-Macy's, and the Rich's name was dropped entirely in 2005.

In 2003, the mall began to feel the effects of department store consolidation when the Macy's anchor store closed, while the Rich's location was renamed Rich's-Macy's.

On March 6, 2005, the Rich's-Macy's store ( as Rich's ; along with the location at Colonial Brookwood Village ) was officially rechristened as Macy's.

* Macy's ( opened 1986 as Rich's, became Macy's 2005 ) ()

The Rich's Great Tree, now the Macy's Great Tree ( and briefly the The Great Tree at Macy's ), is a large tall cut pine Christmas tree that has been an Atlanta tradition since 1948.

Federated began a merger of the R. H. Macy's department stores with Rich's in the early 2000s, with the remaining Rich's stores being renamed Rich's-Macy's.

On January 1, 2006, the Rich's name was dropped altogether in favor of the nationally-known Macy's moniker.

The 2005 holiday season was touted as the last year of " Rich's Great Tree ", even though the tradition continues on as " The Great Tree at Macy's ".

After an announcement was made in 2004, Rich's stores became Rich's-Macy's in early 2005, and for Christmas that year and the next, the Rich's Great Tree became the " Great Tree at Macy's ".

In 2007, the still-new name was dropped in favor of " Macy's Great Tree ", after all Rich's stores became Macy's, eliminating the retailer after 140 years.

In 2003, Federated Department Stores began integrating the Macy's name with their other regional department store brands, including Rich's.

Lord & Taylor, the lone department store division not to be largely converted to the Macy's nameplate, was sold to a group of investors at NRDC Equity Partners, LLC for $ 1. 2 billion in October 2006.

It was converted from the Kaufmann's chain's flagship store to a Macy's flagship store in the summer of 2006.

At some malls, like Fashion Show Mall, the dual-store system proved to be unsuccessful, so Macy's closed one of the stores and converted the other back to a general Macy's store.

Incorporation of properties from six former regional May Company divisions began in February 2006, when existing Macy's stores and properties yet to be converted were then organized into seven divisions with store locations in 45 states, Washington, D. C., Puerto Rico and Guam.

Along with Macy's, there are two other department stores, Neiman Marcus, and Saks Fifth Avenue Off 5th Outlet which was converted from the only Saks Fifth Avenue store in the Twin Cities upon its closing in 2004.

In 2005, Burdines was converted to Macy's when Federated decided to end the Burdines nameplate.

Most of the Stern's locations are converted to Macy's immediately.

In September 2006, Kaufmann's was converted into a Macy's, though the Kaufmann's Furniture Galleries was closed.

In August 2006 the store was converted to Macy's, operated by the Macy's East Division of Federated Department Stores Inc., ( now Macy's Inc .), which acquired May in late 2005.

A shareholder countered with the position that especially the State Street store could be even more successful if converted back to Marshall Field's, citing May 2010 survey results showing that 81 % of Chicago shoppers still preferred Marshall Field's over Macy's while 13 % preferred Macy's over Marshall Field's.

Robinsons-May converted to a second full-line Macy's on September 9, 2006.

* Macy's-240, 567 sq ft, 3 levels ( formerly Horne's, 1969 – 1994 ; Remodeled and rebranded as Lazarus, 1994 – 2005 ; converted to Macy's in 2005 )

On September 9, 2006, Federated converted all former May Company regional department store nameplates, including Kaufmann's, into Macy's as part of a nationwide re-branding program.

It is the starting point in the annual Peachtree Road Race, one of the largest 10 kilometer races in the world. In 1985, Davison's merged with Macy's to form the Davison's-Macy's moniker, and in 1986, Davison's closed and was converted to a Macy's.

In 1990, a new wing was built, expanding the mall southward to include Ivey's ( this store was signed as Ivey's but, due to an acquisition by the parent company, opened as Dillard's ), Thalhimer's ( converted to Hecht's in 1992, and to Macy's in 2006 ) and a new food court.

In 1996, the last of the Jordan Marsh stores were converted to Macy's.

In 1996, Jordan Marsh stores in the Northeast U. S., already part of the Macy's East division, were converted to the Macy's nameplate.

On March 6, 2005, the Bon-Macy's, Burdines-Macy's, Goldsmith's-Macy's, Lazarus-Macy's, and Rich's-Macy's stores were renamed as simply " Macy's ", the first two as the new Macy's West and Macy's Florida divisions respectively and the later three as part of the Macy's Central division.

The former Rich's-Macy's location at Lenox Square became the flagship of Macy's Central until all of the company's divisions had consolidated into one.

The decision was made in 2003 to close all of the former Davison's / Macy's stores in Atlanta ( no new Macy's stores had been built in Atlanta since Town Center at Cobb in 1986 ) and co-brand Rich's as Rich's-Macy's.

After 138 years, Rich's ( as Rich's-Macy's ) disappeared on March 6, 2005 along with the other historical nameplates " Goldsmith-Macy's ", and " Lazarus-Macy's " were eliminated, with the stores renamed as the Macy's Central division of Federated.

Northlake Mall also briefly held one of the two fully signed Rich's-Macy's stores before reverting back to Macy's ( which bought Davison's in 1925 ) in the old Davison's store.