La Plaza Mall Explained
| La Plaza Mall |
| Location: | McAllen, Texas, United States |
| Opening Date: | 1976[1] |
| Owner: | Simon Property Group |
| Number Of Stores: | 183 |
| Number Of Anchors: | 5 |
| Floor Area: | 1300000square feet |
| Floors: | 1 (2 in MADRAG, Zara, Express, Dillard's, H&M, and Macy's home store, and main Macy’s) |
La Plaza Mall is a regional shopping mall located in McAllen, Texas, at the intersection of Interstate 2 (Expressway 83) and 10th Street. It has 1300000square feet of gross leasable area and features 184 specialty stores, many of which are flagship stores, and restaurants.[2] The mall is one of the highest-grossing operated by Simon, and the largest mall in south Texas.[3]
An original tenant of the mall was a Woolworth dime store, the second in McAllen, which closed in 1997.[4] 1998 expansion brought Dillard's as an additional anchor.[5] Another original tenant was a Jones & Jones department store, which was sold to Foley's in 2000[6] and again to Macy's in 2006.
Anchors
Former anchors
- Sears - closed November 2015. Replaced by an expansion of La Plaza Mall, opened in late 2017.
Notes and References
- Web site: City of McAllen History . January 6, 2013.
- http://www.simon.com/Mall/LeasingSheet/2546%20and%204809.pdf La Plaza Mall information sheet
- Web site: Spotlight on Business: La Plaza Mall – rgVision Magazine . 2014-09-11 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140911224017/http://rgvisionmagazine.com/2014/04/spotlight-on-business-la-plaza-mall/ . 2014-09-11 . dead .
- Web site: July/18 Woolworth will close stores. Brownsville Herald. 3 January 2019.
- Web site: Keeping An Eye On The Future. 1 November 1998. National Real Estate Investor. 3 January 2019.
- Web site: Valley retail pioneer Jim Jones dies at 80 - Local News - the Monitor . www.themonitor.com . 2 February 2022 . https://archive.today/20140911133615/http://www.themonitor.com/news/local/valley-retail-pioneer-jim-jones-dies-at/article_4784bce8-e751-562b-b50b-71c96b9f39b0.html?mode=jqm . 11 September 2014 . dead.
