Here is another update from my archives, the Rivercenter Mall in San Antonio. As you can see the cool neon mall logo signage was replaced with a plain "modern" font. At least Margaritaville kept their festive neon sign up. My last post here wasn't the greatest so I decided to do another one during our great 2020 road trip.
This post may be misleading to some since we were walking around after mall hours. This mall has a lot of traffic normally, but we were able to get better photos at this later hour.
Macy's closed their store here in April 2021 along with the Rolling Oaks Mall location and the building is awaiting redevelopment. The other anchor Dillard's closed in 2008 and was completely redeveloped as you will see below. The mall still has a good mix of local and chain businesses and remains very popular with tourists and locals.
The majority of the mall is two floors, but the food court and river-facing businesses have a lower level making that section of the mall three levels.
One set of escalators to the right that goes to the bottom level.
Now we head towards the redeveloped part of the mall that was not open on our previous visit. This whole section of the mall was the former Joske's/Dillard's that closed several years ago.
As you can see, they did a pretty good job of matching this part of the mall to the older section of the mall. A two-level H&M is the anchor at the end of the new corridor.
The mall directory.
One of the cool things they left behind were these old doors from the Joske's days.
Dave and Busters and the AMC theater are two businesses that keep the mall doors open later than normal. There are also more restaurants and even a hotel entrance attached to the mall corridors.
Yikes, this was probably the emptiest I have ever seen this area. We were out around 10pm on a weeknight. Keep in mind, we are right around the corner from the Alamo.
They did a really good job preserving the old exterior of the Joske's/Dillard's building.
They even added some historical photos into the mall corridors.
Now for the second level of the mall.
I almost forgot about this section of the mall with the upstairs cinema.
I really like that these were not removed as part of the renovations. Nothing like mid-80's lighting schemes.
As you can see, there are multiple skylights that have the 80's lighting scheme still in place on the second level of the mall.
More scenes from the mostly empty mall.
You can see the view of the riverwalk through the large glass windows on the right side of this photo.
This is one of the corridors of the mall that kind of dead ends at the street. There used to be a bridge crossing over the riverwalk on the upper level, but this part of the mall was walled off due to low traffic.
More views of the mall.
Another cool area of 80's design are these glass tile floors. A few sections of the mall near the riverwalk have these as well.
The neon looks really nice with the lower tint of the mall lights after hours.
The entrance to the huge Marriott hotel.
One of the outside views from near the hotel entrance.
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And another glass tile floor.
Escalator to the food court/riverwalk level.
Food court and riverwalk level.
The glass tile floors from below.
The view of the massive Marriott hotel that is attached to the mall.
The grand entrance to the mall at the end of this segment of the riverwalk.
More of the restaurants and cafes at this end of the mall. The businesses on this stretch are located outside, but are attached to the mall.
The former Joske's/Dillard's building exterior.
Here is the section of the former Joske's/Dillard's that was left open to keep the historic church intact.
Views of the riverwalk from the mall. For a small fee, you can also hop on a boat for a riverwalk tour here as well.
One last view of the skylights before we head out.
