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.
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.
