Dogwood Festival Market

Dogwood Festival Market is an outdoor shopping center located on Mississippi Highway 25 in Flowood, Mississippi, United States. The center opened in 2002 and combines retail, dining, and service-oriented tenants in a suburban open-air format. Its reported footprint is approximately 187,000 square feet, with 57 stores and restaurants. The property is owned and managed by Inland National Real Estate Services LLC. The center's principal anchor is Belk, a department store that originally operated at the property under the McRae's name. McRae's was subsequently sold and the location was converted to Belk in 2006, making the department store transition an important point in the property's tenant history. In addition to the anchor, the center's listed restaurant tenants include Chick-fil-A, Dickey's Barbecue Pit, El Sombrero Mexican Restaurant, Logan's Roadhouse, McAlister's Deli, Jersey Mike's Subs, The Yard Milkshake Bar, Yakiniku Korean & Japanese BBQ, and Poke' Stop. These tenants give the center a mix of department-store shopping, casual dining, fast-casual food, specialty beverages, and regional or international restaurant concepts. Dogwood Festival Market operates within a competitive retail environment in Flowood. It is located across the street from Market Street Flowood, another outdoor shopping center, placing the property within a concentrated commercial area rather than functioning as an isolated destination. Its positioning is therefore based on convenience, tenant variety, and open-air shopping access for residents and visitors in the Flowood and greater Jackson metropolitan area. Available reference material identifies the property, its location, ownership and management, approximate size, opening year, anchor history, and selected tenants, but does not provide information about the founder, corporate financial performance, executive leadership, major advertising campaigns, controversies, or public-market activity. The center's present operating status is treated as active based on the current property website and the continuing description of its retail and restaurant use.

Dogwood Festival Market was developed as an outdoor shopping center on Mississippi Highway 25 in Flowood, Mississippi, and opened in 2002. Its format reflects the open-air retail-center model, bringing multiple stores and restaurants together in a low-rise suburban setting rather than operating as an enclosed regional mall. The property has a reported total area of about 187,000 square feet and has been described as containing 57 stores and restaurants. The center's original department-store anchor was McRae's. A later ownership and branding change in the department-store sector resulted in the McRae's location being converted to Belk in 2006. Belk remains identified as the center's anchor tenant, while the former McRae's identity represents an important part of the property's earlier commercial history. Over time, Dogwood Festival Market has maintained a tenant mix spanning traditional retail and food service. Its listed restaurants include national chains such as Chick-fil-A, Dickey's Barbecue Pit, and Jersey Mike's Subs; regional or local dining concepts such as El Sombrero Mexican Restaurant, Logan's Roadhouse, McAlister's Deli, Yakiniku Korean & Japanese BBQ, and Poke' Stop; and dessert-focused The Yard Milkshake Bar. This combination broadens the center's use beyond department-store shopping and supports both planned visits and casual dining traffic. Dogwood Festival Market is located across the street from Market Street Flowood, another outdoor shopping center. The proximity of the two properties places Dogwood Festival Market within a broader retail cluster in Flowood and contributes to the area's role as a shopping and dining destination. Inland National Real Estate Services LLC is identified as both the owner and manager of Dogwood Festival Market. Publicly available reference material for the property is limited. It documents the center's opening, physical scale, ownership and management, anchor-store transition, location, and selected tenants, but does not establish a detailed development history, founder profile, executive roster, financial record, major marketing campaigns, legal disputes, or corporate acquisitions. Accordingly, those categories are left unpopulated rather than inferred.

• 2006

  McRae's converted to Belk

  [1]Dogwood Festival Marketen.wikipedia.org

  The center's original McRae's department-store anchor was sold and converted to a Belk location.

• 2002

  Center opened

  [1]Dogwood Festival Marketen.wikipedia.org

  Dogwood Festival Market opened as an outdoor shopping center on Mississippi Highway 25 in Flowood, Mississippi.

An open-air suburban shopping center combining department-store retail, restaurants, and convenience-oriented specialty tenants.

• Retail property · 2002

  Open-air shopping center

  Dogwood Festival Market's core offering is an outdoor retail and dining environment in Flowood. The center brings together department-store shopping, restaurants, and specialty food concepts across an approximately 187,000-square-foot property. Its open-air layout is designed for convenient visits across multiple tenants rather than for a single branded merchandise line.

• Department store · 2006

  Belk

  Belk is Dogwood Festival Market's anchor department store. The location originally operated as McRae's before being converted to Belk in 2006. As the anchor, it provides the center with broad department-store merchandise and serves as a principal traffic generator for the surrounding retail and restaurant tenants.

• Food service

  Restaurant and dining tenant mix

  The center's listed dining offering includes fast food, fast-casual restaurants, barbecue, Mexican cuisine, American casual dining, deli fare, Korean and Japanese barbecue, poke, sandwiches, and specialty milkshakes. Named tenants include Chick-fil-A, Dickey's Barbecue Pit, El Sombrero Mexican Restaurant, Logan's Roadhouse, McAlister's Deli, Jersey Mike's Subs, The Yard Milkshake Bar, Yakiniku Korean & Japanese BBQ, and Poke' Stop.

1. 1Dogwood Festival Marketen.wikipedia.org
2. 2Dogwood Festival Market official websiteshopdogwoodfestival.com