 The Mall's Hecht's store became Macy's on September 9, 2006.The Mall was sold to General Growth Properties by The Rouse Company in 2004.A December 2007 decision by local General Growth Properties managers to abandon The Mall's traditional "Poinsettia Tree" Christmas display sparked a grassroots movement by several hundred Columbia residents for the return of the display which had come to be viewed as a local tradition.