Temple Mall contains accommodation for four major anchor stores and 57 tenants, and has approximately 555,400 square feet (51,600 m2)[2] of gross leasable area. Temple Mall is one of two regional malls in Bell County, the other being Killeen Mall, in nearby Killeen, Texas.
Location | Temple, Texas |
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Coordinates | 31°04′15″N 97°22′01″W / 31.0707°N 97.3670°W |
Opening date | 1976 |
Owner | Kohan Retail Investment Group[1] |
No. of stores and services | 60 |
No. of anchor tenants | 5 (3 open, 2 vacant by March 2021) |
Total retail floor area | 555,400 ft2 |
No. of floors | 1 |
Parking | 2,557 spaces |
Website | Official website (deactivated) |
Sears had an anchor store that was replaced in 1995 by Foley's.[3] Foley's became Macy's in 2006. Macy's closed in 2016; Dillard's had a store that moved across the mall to the former Macy's space in 2017.[4] JCPenney closed in March 2021 as part of a plan to close 15 stores nationwide.[5] Premiere Cinemas closed on December 25, 2022. After the closure of JCPenney, Dillard's is the only anchor store left as of 2024[update], with Planet Fitness as a junior anchor. There are three vacant anchor store that were once Dillard's original store, JCPenney, and Steve & Barry's.
Kohan Retail Investment Group purchased the mall in late October 2021. The price was not disclosed; at one time the mall was listed for US$10 million.[1] Although the company updated the mall's website, by 2024 it displayed the message "The Temple Mall website has been deactivated."[6]
References
edit- ^ a b Bates, Baylee (October 27, 2021). "Temple Mall now under new ownership, store owners want community support". KCEN. Retrieved 22 November 2021.
- ^ Urban Retail Properties: Temple Mall Archived 2013-03-17 at the Wayback Machine Center Information. Retrieved 31 December 2011.
- ^ "Colonial Mall sold to Texas company". Temple Daily Telegram. April 20, 2005.
- ^ Hays, Julie (September 27, 2017). "Temple: Dillard's makes major move, plans big reopening". KWTX-TV.
- ^ Tyko, Kelly (December 17, 2020). "J.C. Penney closing more stores after exiting bankruptcy. Will your store close in March 2021? See the list". USA Today.
- ^ "The Temple Mall website has been deactivated". www.templemalltx.com. Retrieved 1 January 2024.