Former Kmart Texarkana Texas February 2025

Here is the first post in 2025 from 2025. We finally made it to the Northeast corner of the State. Here is a former Kmart in Texarkana Texas. This store (#7309) opened on October 30, 1980 and closed on January 28, 2018 per Kmart/Locations | Malls and Retail Wiki | Fandom

This was a traditional old school style Kmart with about 92,000 square feet of retail space and was one of the longest lasting Kmart locations in Texas. I almost forgot about this former Kmart, but I briefly saw the shopping center as we were passing by and made a U-turn back to check it out.

Here are a couple of videos from NAI American Realty showing the inside of the store before it was stripped out. Click the dates below to see when the videos were uploaded. 

February 2020

March 2021

The main road sign off of Highway 59 has faded, revealing the old Big Kmart logo. Autozone will probably place their logo at the top of this road sign in the near future. 

The exterior of the building is still relatively untouched minus the Kmart sign. A small chunk of the building on the right-hand side is under construction for a new Autozone location.

The inside is a different story. All of the ceiling tiles and most of the light fixtures are gone. It appears that the old floor tiles have been removed as well, but I couldn't tell for sure.

Some of the old Kmart A/C vents are still in place. 

The old main entrance still has some of the Kmart era stickers.

The former Garden Shop and auto center side of the store.

Inside of the Garden Shop area from two slightly different angles.

I really wish there was more to see here, but at least this is one of the few reminders left from the Kmart era in Texas.

As you can guess, we also covered the nearby Central Mall. Central Mall is a decent enough mall with a few spots struggling as most small city malls these days. 

 

Kmart building Bossier City December 2024 update

Here is my first and potentially final look at the Dirt Cheap business. After doing my long look at the Pierre Bossier Mall, I passed by the former Kmart site just down the street. The former Kmart has been split into 3-stores. Dirt Cheap, Dirt Cheap building supplies, and Ollie's. 

 Thankfully we get to peek inside of the former Kmart store that we last visited when that store was closing. The Dirt Cheap Building Materials is scheduled to close on December 15, 2024. 

The old floor, ceiling tiles, and A/C vents are still in place. 

Really not a whole lot left besides floors, toilets, boards, and some doors. There are a lot of random odds and ends type of things. 

More photos from around the store.

As you can see, the floor has been torn apart. A lot of the old Kmart tile still remains, but it is in really bad shape.

Still had the look of Kmart from end to end of the store.

Pretty sure this spill magic sign was left over from the Kmart days. It looks really faded.

With the help of the AI magic on my latest phone, I made the people in these images disappear. 

They use the old Kmart customer service desk for the checkouts. 

Just like the last time we were here when the Kmart was closing.

For the clothing side, we missed out. Here are a couple of shots on the inside from the glass doors.

Here is the Ollie's side of the former Kmart. It is pretty cool that they incorporated the former Garden Shop into their store. 

On my first December trip, we did not go in the store. Since we had some time, I had to get a quick trip in to take a look.

The garden center wall to the store was removed leaving this as a wide-open space now.

As we progress through the store, we began to notice that this is the messiest Ollie's location by far that we have seen.

Lots of stuff just thrown around and stacked in shopping carts.

Even the center aisle displays were all over the place.

The clothing department really needs to be straightened up.

The A/C vents look very different without the ceiling tiles.

The stockroom door was propped open. This was the former auto center of Kmart.

The back area of the store with carpets, bedding, and other stuff just thrown around. 

Ceiling tiles falling down.

That is all from the former Kmart. As you can see, this is a very small Ollie's location and a pretty messy one as well.

Now as an added bonus. Here is an update to the former Circuit City and Linens and Things on Youree Drive that we documented years ago (click here for that post). 

As you can see the replacement Conn's also met the same fate as the previous tenants. The parking lot lights at the shopping center 

were only dark in front of Conn's. With the signage still on, it made for a great photo.

More to come on the Shreveport/Bossier City series including a part 2 of Pierre Bossier Mall and a revisit to the former Southpark Mall.