Macroplaza Mall, formerly Pasadena Town Square Mall and Plaza Paseo Mall, is a regional shopping mall in Pasadena, Texas, southeast of Houston. Developed by Federated Department Stores Realty [3] and attached to an existing Foley's Department store, it opened March 1982. The mall originally featured Joske's, Foley's, and Palais Royal (Houston-based department store) as its anchor stores.[4] At the time it was built, its location was unusual as it was one of only a few malls in the Houston area not near a highway.[5] Joske's was rebranded as Dillard's in 1987 following the purchase of the Joske's chain. Sears was added as the fourth anchor in 1997 in an effort to increase traffic; and allow the mall to be seen as a larger regional mall.[6][7] All four Anchor Stores Dillard's, Sears, Macy's, and Palais Royal (department store) currently sit vacant.
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| Location | Pasadena, Texas, United States |
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| Coordinates | 29°41′40″N 95°11′58″W / 29.6945675°N 95.1994003°W |
| Address | 1101 Southmore Avenue[1] |
| Opening date | March 4, 1982[2] |
| Developer | Federated Department Stores Realty |
| Owner | 2015 Shopping Mall Business LLC[1] |
| No. of stores and services | Mostly vacant |
| No. of anchor tenants | 4 (all vacant) |
| Total retail floor area | 335,840 square feet (31,201 m2) |
| No. of floors | 1 (2 in former Dillard's, former Macy's, and Sears) |
A little more than a year after opening, mall developer Federated Department Stores Realty sold the mall, and three others, to mall manager JMB Realty Corporation for $112 million.[3] In 2002, the mall was purchased from American General by a local developer.[8] Foley's converted to Macy's in 2006,[9] the same year Dillard's closed.[10] Macy's closed on March 27, 2017.
In 2015 the mall was purchased by Guardian Equity, which planned to remodel the common spaces.[11] In 2016 it was renamed Plaza Paseo Mall.[12][13]
In mid-2018, its name was again changed to Macroplaza Mall, to allude to it being a gathering place like the plaza of the same name to the south in Monterrey, Mexico, and to emphasize a new focus on the area's Mexican American community.
Palais Royal closed in 2020 when its parent company Stage Stores filed for bankruptcy.[14]
On November 9, 2020, it was announced that Sears would close on January 24, 2021, as part of a plan to close seven Sears stores nationwide, leaving the mall with no anchor stores.[15] It was revealed afterward the store would be converted and reopened as the smaller-format Sears Hometown store,[16] but closed in May 2022.[17]
The Mall's official social media pages are not active as of 2023.
Former anchors
edit- Macy's (Opened as Foley's in 1962, converted to Macy's in 2006, closed in 2017)
- Dillard's (Opened as Joske's in 1982, converted to Dillard's in 1987, closed in 2006)
- Palais Royal (Opened in 1982, closed in 2020)
- Sears (Opened in 1997, closed in 2021. Reopened, and closed, in 2022 as a Sears Hometown store)
References
edit- ^ a b https://public.hcad.org/records/Ownership.asp?crypt=%94%9A%B0%94%BFg%84%91%80zkh%8El%8CtXt%5DW%9E%99%A2%D3%89%95%C2e%7CU%8B%7F [bare URL]
- ^ https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info%3Asid/infoweb.newsbank.com&svc_dat=AMNEWS&req_dat=0D1C2A34C3EF45E0&rft_val_format=info%3Aofi/fmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Actx&rft_dat=document_id%3Aimage%252Fv2%253A14DB39C1C40322B4%2540EANX-NB-164420A739ECC5D6%25402445025-16432F032197D221%254059-16432F032197D221%2540/hlterms%3A%2522pasadena%2520town%2520square%2522 [bare URL]
- ^ a b "8 Oct 1983, 50 - Fort Worth Star-Telegram at". Newspapers.com. October 8, 1983. Retrieved June 5, 2022.
- ^ Buildings. Vol. 75. Stamats Publishing Company. 1981. ISSN 0007-3725. Retrieved October 18, 2014.
- ^ "Pasadena Town Square Pasadena, TX— MallHistory.com". Archived from the original on September 9, 2019. Retrieved May 31, 2017.
- ^ "Controlled Retail Growth Stabilizes Southwest—NREIOnline.com". November 1997. Retrieved August 13, 2017.
- ^ "User account".
- ^ "Group Has Deal for Pasadena, Texas, Mall. - Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News | HighBeam Research". highbeam.com. Archived from the original on April 15, 2016. Retrieved October 18, 2014.
- ^ "Federated to close Galleria Macy's store, convert area Foley's stores to Macy's - Houston Business Journal". bizjournals.com. Retrieved October 18, 2014.
- ^ "Weitzman to market Dillard's property - Houston Chronicle". chron.com. May 18, 2009. Retrieved October 18, 2014.
- ^ "Pasadena Town Square gets new Owner and Facelift". Houston Chronicle. September 14, 2015.
- ^ "Plans Underway for new Pasadena Court Building". Houston Chronicle. January 10, 2018.
- ^ "Armed Robbers Snatch Elderly Couples Purse and Wallet at Pasadena Mall". CW39.com News. November 2016.
- ^ "Stage Stores, which runs Palais Royal, Bealls and Goody's, files for bankruptcy". The Washington Post. May 11, 2020. Retrieved June 5, 2022.
- ^ "Liquidation Sale Commences at Doomed Manchester Sears". November 13, 2020.
- ^ "Sears Marcoplaza Mall Location Reopens As A Hometown Store". November 5, 2021.
- ^ https://houstonhistoricretail.com/2022/05/25/the-final-chapter-of-sears-in-pasadena-as-hometown-store-in-pasadena-town-square-mall-prepares-to-close/ [bare URL]
