Deerbrook Marketplace 2017 Hurricane Harvey flood damage

While digging around my old files, I came across this post. 

Hurricane Harvey made landfall on August 17, 2017. Hurricane Harvey caused destruction from Corpus Christi all the way through Southwestern Louisiana. The category four storm caused wind and flood damage at landfall, then proceeded to stall out and bombard the Southeast Texas coast with relentless rain for several days. Many lives were changed forever from this catastrophic storm. 

The Atascocita, Humble, and Kingwood areas sustained major flood damage when the San Jacinto River and Lake Houston went into major flood stages. Kingwood was sealed off completely from the flooding for a couple of days. This shopping center which we have covered in the past, sustained damage to every single building.

Construction trailers can be seen in the parking lot here.

Marshalls and the recently closed Sports Authority section of the center.

Sports Authority was lit up and the sheetrock cut out from the flood damage. A few months later, this retailer was split in half and completely renovated for a World Plus Market and Buy Buy Baby.

Several Sports Authority shopping baskets were left outside.

The inside of the Marshalls was stripped out as well with the flooring gone as well. Marshalls Reopened early in 2018.

 

On a day when this shopping center would have been full of cars and shoppers, it was eerily quiet. 

Inside of the Bel Furniture, all of the inventory was gone, and the structure gutted. This store also re-opened in early 2018.

The back side of Toys R Us which never truly reopened after the storm.

Here is an awesome post of the short-lived TRU clearance center that opened in late 2017.

Geoffery’s Bargain Box of Toys: The Toys “R” Us Concept you probably never saw – Houston Historic Retail

My post from the store The Louisiana and Texas Retail Blogspot: Toys R Us Humble Texas evolution (southernretail.blogspot.com)

5 years later, all of these same retailers except for Justice are still here.

Same story here. The Bel Furniture moved into the former Toys R Us building last Summer.

Pier One Imports is now gone, but Ulta and Kirkland remain.

Another look at the Toys R Us. I wish I could have gotten this sign for my collection. It stayed up for several months after the storm passed.

A few more shots up-close of the Toys R Us.

Best Buy was the only retailer here that re-opened with a bare-bones store in November 2017. Some of the outlot restaurants opened in 2017 as well.

Fast forward to the Summer of 2019, you can't even tell that the center ever flooded out.

 

Victoria Mall Victoria Tx.

Be sure to check out my previous post on the final days of the Sears at Victoria Mall here.

Here is another new mall post. Victoria Mall opened in 1981, covers nearly 700,000 square feet, and is located at one of the busiest intersections in the city. Despite the loss of Sears, The Victoria Mall has well over 95% of the inline stores occupied. The city of Victoria has a population of around 62,500 people with a metro population of 111,000. Many of the big box retailers, chain sit-down restaurants, and the largest cinema in the area are centered around the mall, so this is a busy area. The mall is anchored by 2 Dillard's locations, JCPenney, Bealls, and Best Buy. TJ Maxx and Burke's Outlet are also junior anchors at the mall. 

The exterior of the mall is nothing special, but the JCPenney and Dillard's Men's stores have some retro features.

The next two anchor exteriors are a breath of fresh air compared to the boring exterior of the majority of the mall.

The mall is one long corridor. You can see from one side to the other. This is the only Hull mall in Texas, and it looks exactly the same as their other malls in their profile.

Although the carpet feels good to walk on, we all know that it will begin to look terrible in time.

I do have to admit, this hallway does look awesome.

An old school desktop style directory.

Here is the mall map, as you can see it is a straight shot from one end of the mall to the other.

An up-close look at the store list. I did my best not to let the reflection ruin the photo.

The ceilings in this section of the mall look really awesome. I wonder how they looked without the Hull blandness when the mall was new.

They were taking down the Santa display during my visit.

The mall entrance to Bealls looks so plain. I wonder if this store will be converted to Stage in the hear future. Stage stores has been either closing or remodeling Bealls locations.

The Best Buy mall entrance and food court seating. Best Buy covers up this part of the mall so the mall management put up some historical info about the area to break up the monotony.

The Sears closed on January 6, 2019. There is a small food court in this area, but there were people in the way of getting good photos of the restaurants.

After visiting the Sears store, we head back to where we started out. The old school Bath and Body Works storefront is out of place in this modern mall.

Some parts of the mall are fairly dark. It also didn't help that it was gloomy and rainy outside on this brisk, cold January day.

The ceilings in the mall really make an impact in this part of the mall near the 2 Dillard's locations.

Not only is the exterior of the JCPenney old school, so is the mall entrance with the mirrored glass.

The Dillard's Men's Store mall entrance.

More exterior shots of the mall, that JCPenney is very retro.

The Dillard's has the orange painted entrances on a mostly bland building.

As you can see, there is a lot going on at the Victoria Mall.