Quick Update El Mercado at Plazamericas Mall

Here is the mall entrance to where the new mercado is under construction.



Here are a couple of pictures from the second floor of El Mercado which is under development at the Plazamericas Mall in Houston Texas. Both floors of this section of the mall have been gutted out and will be reconstructed as a mini-mall or mercado. The rest of the mall has seen some changes as well; the food court has brand new seats and tables. The mall has a few new inline stores opening soon. The Clarewood Mercado at the mall has also opened up in the former JCPenney.

May 16th Demolition pictures at Greenspoint Mall

There is not much left; they are moving fast with this demolition. As for the old Sears; the labelscars have been painted over just like at the old Montgomery Ward.

May 12 update on Greenspoint Mall

Thanks Pseudo3D for the heads up at the Greenspoint Mall JCPenney. I visited this JCPenney for years with my family when Greenspoint was the only mall in north Houston outside of Beltway 8 with a JCPenney. This was a large two story JCPenney with two mall entrances. The store also had two outside entrances that went in directly to the customer services, salon, and catalog sales on different ends. The store design was actually very similar to the JCPenney at San Jacinto Mall but with two floors. Once JCPenney expanded to Willowbrook Mall, The Woodlands Mall, and Deerbrook Mall all within a few short years this old dinosaur was put to rest. I look forward to seeing this part of the mall come alive again. Unfortunately Sears has closed leaving another part of the mall that needs to be redeveloped.

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Sears is now closed; the store closed this past weekend.

Highland Mall Update May 08, 2010

We visited Highland Mall this past weekend to give an update for the blog. The food court has lost five tenants, but there are still 9 tenants that serve food or snacks in the mall. In the recently closed Dillard's south wing; several new stores have opened up on both floors, but none are national chains. It is good to see the mall gaining tenants even with the loss of an anchor store. Macy's is still going strong and the Dillard's clearance center was doing brisk business as well. Unfortunately a few stores have left the mall, but the mall is working to rebound.




Here is the outside of the closed Dillard's south. Dillard's has consolidated into the smaller store, but the smaller store is clearance only. Dillard's had two stores at the mall until last year.





Dillard's south has closed, but the lights are still on for now.






Here are some inside shots in various parts of the mall.

New Links

Be sure to check out my new links. I am in the process of getting links for all of the malls and stores featured on my blog. I have some new articles coming soon as well including a full feature of retail in the Houston suburb of Humble Texas.

Ghosts of retailers past at San Jacinto Mall

Here are two of the three ghost anchors at the San Jacinto Mall. The Montgomery Ward is sealed up and the entire mall wing that Montgomery Ward was on is closed off, so I am unable to get pictures. I have featured Service Merchandise and Mervyn's in my tour. JCPenney, Sears, Marshall's, Palais Royal, and Macy's are still open at the mall. You can call these anchor closings a case of bad luck for this mall. The mall has also gained some new inline tenants since my last visit.

Service Merchandise; this anchor closed with the last round of Houston closings in early 2000. I only visited this store once while it was open during their electronic clearance just before the whole chain folded.

Picture from 2006; the labelscar is not as visible anymore.



Inside photos from 2010






Mervyn's; this store closed with the last round of Houston closings in 2006. This store was one of the smallest Mervyn's that I visited. All of the windows are wide open, so you can see inside of the store from inside and outside of the mall.

The labelscar has been painted over; the first picture is right after the store closed in 2006.



Inside photos from 2010

PlazaAmericas Update 4/18/2010 Clarewood Mercado

Here are some outside shots of the Clarewood Mercado. The Mercado does not have a grand opening date posted, but it appears to be almost complete. The Laundromat has opened and several cars were parked outside this Sunday afternoon. The parking lot around the Clarewood Mercado has been repaved, so the potholes are gone.

El Mercado the second Mercado is still under construction and set to open before the end of the year. It looks like the roof of the mall is being repaired above the food court. The mall management has also placed a temporary moonwalk slide in front of the second floor of the soon to be El Mercado to draw foot traffic to that part of the mall. Burlington needs to open the gates back up on the second floor to improve the flow of the foot traffic as well.





The lights are on but the stores are not yet open. The Clarewood Mercado has several booths being set up, but I was unable to get many pictures today. I was able to angle the camera through the gate to see the inside much better on some shots. The nearly twelve year vacant anchor is about to reopen. The mall also has a new website at http://www.plazamericas.com/