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.

 

Sports Authority closing sale 2016

Sports Authority Humble Texas

Here are a few photos from a closing sale of the Sports Authority. About 25% of the Sports Authority stores began going out of business sales when they filed for bankruptcy including all of the stores in Texas. A few weeks after these stores began closing sales, the company decided to close the rest of the stores ending the company. 

The Sports Authority came into Houston when Gart Sports merged with Sports Authority and changed the names of the stores. This former Oshman's store was originally across the highway at Deerbrook Mall in a much smaller space. This location opened as an Oshman's Super Sports USA in the mid 90's. The interior of the store looks almost exactly as it did when it opened, minus the Sports Authority signage above the exit doors. This store did not age well and began looking dated about 10 years ago. The Sports Authority was an expensive alternative to Academy and had a hard time competing especially in the past 5 years after the nearby Academy moved into a larger store once again.

This was one strange going out of business sale. They had a few papers at the door for the first week of the sale, but no big signage and pulled a ton of merchandise off of the floor. I guess they sent the best merchandise to the stores that were originally going to stay open. They also shipped in a bunch of sports gear from different cities across the US. While the store was open they had gear from all of the Texas teams, LSU, and whatever team won a championship that year.  

This was the back area of the store with guns, camping supplies, summer games, and football gear.

These signs remained up even after the announcement of the rest of the company closing.

Peeling paint on the air vents, they are like this across the store.

Most, if not all of the players in this photo retired many years ago.

Enjoy the rest of the store

Somebody put some clothes on these mannequins

It is amazing that once a store starts a going out of business sale, parts of the sign stop working.

I am not sure exactly when the sale concluded, but it was about a month after I took the last set of photos.

Here is the same store after the closing sale ended. The sign was taken down a few months of closing.