Class Action Lawsuit: Just For Feet

Just For Feet

The former Just For Feet store, an often vacant eyesore in front of Hoover's Riverchase Galleria in recent years, has been demolished. The mall announced earlier this year that Jared Jewelry would take over the site. The company bills itself as The Galleria of Jewelry, with an average store size of 6,000 square feet that includes an on-site design and repair shop, at least one diamond viewing room and a children's play area.

A division of Akron, Ohio-based Sterling Jewelers Inc., Jared opened its first store in 1993 and now has about 180 U.S. stores. The move is part of a sweeping revitalization that the owners of Alabama's busiest shopping mall unveiled last year. Updates are planned throughout the property, including new landscaping and signs, along with other aesthetic architectural elements. A new Von Maur department store is set to open in 2013.

The Just For Feet store closed in 2004 along with the rest of the bankrupt Birmingham-based athletic shoe retailer's locations. The building at the Galleria was most recently occupied by Henig Furs for a short time. The Galleria is also adding another new tenant. Inside the mall, in a vacant space on the second floor near the new Von Maur site, signs say a Pandora Jewelry store will open in November.