Shopping & Retail

City Market at the Museum is downtown Fayetteville's Saturday farmers and crafters market, held on the grounds of the Fayetteville History Museum on Franklin Street. The museum itself occupies the restored 1890 Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley Railroad depot, so shoppers browse vendor tents beside one of the city's older railroad buildings, a few blocks from the Market House. The city's parks and recreation department, which runs the museum, presents the market every Saturday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., with the main season running April through December and some vendors returning year-round. Growers bring locally raised produce, eggs and honey, and the craft side fills out with plants, cut flowers, woodwork, knitted items, soap, candles and jewelry. The museum is open the same morning from 10 a.m., which makes it easy to pair a market stop with its exhibits on local history. For anyone searching for a Fayetteville farmers market downtown, this is the weekly Saturday option on city property.

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Cross Creek Mall is Fayetteville's main enclosed shopping mall, sitting where Morganton Road meets Skibo Road on the city's west side. CBL Properties owns and manages the center, which it lists at roughly 790,000 square feet and 108 stores. Belk, JCPenney and Macy's serve as the department-store anchors, and Macy's stayed open after the chain's 2024 announcement of about 150 store closures. Inside, shoppers find national apparel and specialty names such as H&M, American Eagle Outfitters, Bath & Body Works, Build-A-Bear Workshop, Foot Locker and Five Below. The former Sears building was redeveloped and now holds Rooms To Go, Main Event and LongHorn Steakhouse, while an outdoor streetscape called The District, about 46,000 square feet, adds Sephora, Men's Wearhouse, White House Black Market and Sleep Number. CBL describes the property as the only super-regional mall within a 75-mile radius and its customer base reaches well past the city limits into surrounding counties. Store hours can differ from the mall's posted hours, so check individual retailers before a trip.

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Freedom Town Center is a newer open-air retail development at the corner of Skibo Road and Cliffdale Road, south of Cross Creek Mall in west Fayetteville. Greenville, South Carolina developer RealtyLink planned the project as a roughly 50-acre, 385,000-square-foot center, and it now holds close to 40 stores and restaurants. Tenants reported at the center include Hobby Lobby, which moved into a 60,000-square-foot space from an older Skibo Road location, along with Sprouts Farmers Market, Five Guys, CoreLife Eatery, HOTWORX and Fantastic Sams. Escapology opened an escape-room venue here, adding an activity that goes beyond shopping. A buyer group from the Northeast purchased the property in 2022 for $72.5 million, according to the local business press. The tenant mix spans big-box retail, a grocery store, fast-casual dining, fitness and entertainment. Tenant hours vary widely; the general window posted for the center is longer than many individual store schedules.

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Marketfair Shopping Center occupies a large block of Skibo Road between Cross Creek Mall and Freedom Town Center, and plenty of Fayetteville residents still call it Market Fair Mall from its years as an enclosed center. Today it is an open-air property where stores face the parking lots instead of an interior corridor. New Jersey-based Progress Realty Partners bought the 219,000-square-foot center from Westport Capital in January 2020 for $36 million, according to trade press coverage of the sale. A later redevelopment brought in a Lidl grocery store, and the 15-screen AMC Market Fair 15 cinema remains one of the property's best-known tenants, giving the site evening traffic after many shops close. With Cross Creek Mall and Freedom Town Center each a short drive away, the center is often one stop on a longer Skibo Road errand run. Posted center hours are a general guide only; each tenant sets its own schedule, and the theater runs later than the retail stores.

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Sun Asian Supermarket is a locally owned Asian grocery store on Santa Fe Drive in Fayetteville's 28303 ZIP code, and it has served the city for close to two decades. It is a full-size Asian supermarket rather than a small specialty shop, which sets it apart from the international aisles at chain grocers. Map listings describe the store as an Asian grocery and fresh food market with a snack counter, and it holds a 4.7-star average across roughly 2,000 Google reviews. The business is planning a major expansion. In August 2025 the local business press reported that Sun will anchor Midtown East, a planned 32,000-square-foot market development in the Military Business Park area outside Fort Bragg, moving into a multi-story store that would triple its space and staff and widen its produce, meat, seafood and housewares selection. The developers called groundbreaking and opening dates moving targets, so for now shoppers should use the Santa Fe Drive address.

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