Belk is a department store chain founded in 1888 in Monroe, North Carolina, today part of the Charlotte metropolitan area. After the founding of the first Belk store, the company grew in size and influence throughout the South via chain in the USA, with its stores primarily located in the Southern USA.

The chain has four flagship locations: *SouthPark Mall (SouthPark Mall (Charlotte, North Carolina)), in Charlotte, North Carolina, houses the chains largest store, with more than convert330000sqftm2. The store was built in 1970 as one of the malls original anchor stores. The mall was co-developed by the Belk and Ivey (Iveys) families. *Crabtree Valley Mall. in Raleigh, North Carolina, is where Belk built a similarly elaborate convert251000sqftm2sing=on store in 1972 (subsequently expanded to convert320000sqftm2 in 2007) in North Carolinas high-tech Research Triangle. *The Summit (The Summit (Birmingham)), in Birmingham, Alabama, houses the third flagship, built in 1997, which opened as a Parisian store and one of the lifestyle centers original anchors. Its intended conversion to a Belk flagship was officially announced on April 25, 2007, with the reorganization complete by September 2007. *Phipps Plaza, in Atlanta, Georgia, contains the fourth flagship, which also opened as Parisian, part of a 1992 expansion of the mall in which the store became the third mall anchor. Like the store at The Summit, it converted to a Belk by September 2007, although its conversion to flagship wasnt officially announced until November 2, 2007.