 Many factors led to its decline during the late 2000s, plummeting to a mere 12 retailers by the year 2012 and thus considered a dead mall.Between 2012 and 2016, over $50 million has been invested in revitalizing the Hickory Hollow property and 58 tenants now occupy the internationally themed mall (47.8% occupancy) as of 2016.Antioch was a small rural community of farmers in the 1960s.