Shops Near Wrightsville Beach

There is an expansive mall on Military Cutoff Road just north of Eastwood Road on the far east side of Wilmington, almost to Wrightsville Beach. Situated on 400 acres, the mixed-use development, Mayfaire Town Center and Mayfaire Community Center, offers a wide variety of food and department stores, specialty shops, restaurants, luxury residences, office space and a cinema. Here you’ll enjoy a unique environment designed with your ease and comfort in mind. Parking is plentiful, as well.

Across Military Cutoff Road is The Forum, another popular shopping mecca, featuring upscale shops, charming boutiques and three excellent restaurants, Bento Box and Osteria Cicchett. If you’re interested in high-end merchandise, this is the place to find home furnishings, antiques, women’s fashions, jewelry and children’s clothing.

Down the street from the Forum is Landfall Center, a sprawling strip plaza containing several banking centers, specialty shops and restaurants. The Northeast Regional Library and UNCW Executive Development Center are located at the north end.

For a truly local kind of shopping experience, explore the trendy boutiques at Lumina Station on Eastwood Road. This attractively designed and landscaped village boasts more than 25 businesses and unique shops, day spa, fitness facilities, fine dining and a relaxing ambiance.

Another shopping concentration can be found in Monkey Junction, where South College Road merges with Carolina Beach Road (U.S. 421). This rapidly growing shopping center is busy, busy, busy. Clustered around a Wal-Mart superstore and a Lowe’s Home Improvement are several strip plazas, numerous fast-food chains, gas stations, popular restaurants, furniture store, pool center and a supermarket. Nearby are a public library and two medical/urgent care facilities along with doctors’ offices and a pharmacy. In 2007, a new Home Depot store opened to anchor another budding shopping center off Piner Road, and, less than a mile away, Harris Teeter opened a magnificent grocery store.