Northline Mall

Northline Mall

Location	Houston, TX, US
Address	400 Northline Mall
Opening date	1963
Closing date	2007
Developer	Berenson Associates Inc.
Architect	Berenson Associates Inc.
No. of anchor tenants	3
No. of floors	1

Northline Mall was a shopping mall located in the Northline area of Houston, Texas, United States, at the northeast corner of Interstate 45, and Crosstimbers Road. It is the new location of Northline Commons.

History

Boston, Massachusetts-based Berenson Associates Inc. developed the mall in the 1960s.^[1] Northline Mall opened nearly 47 years ago as one of Houston's premier weather-controlled malls.^[2]

On January 31, 1997, a twenty-foot wall in Northline Mall adjacent to a construction site where the Magic Johnson Theatres cinema was being built collapsed, killing at least three people.^[3]

Beginning in the 2000s Northline Mall will be redeveloped from a traditional mall to an 850,000-square-foot (79,000 m²) open air "power center" consisting of "big box" retail and general merchandise stores. Eastbourne Investments, a New York real estate fund, bought a 50 percent equity stake in Northline on December 31. 2004. Berenson hired Fidelis Realty Partners, a firm in Houston, to redevelop the mall and repopulate it with tenants.^[1]

Wal-Mart Stores purchased 19 acres (77,000 m²) from the owners for a Supercenter, which will be at Crosstimbers and Fulton, adjacent to new multitenant retail buildings. Houston Community College also acquired land for a new campus on about 14 acres (57,000 m²) along the Fulton side of the property.^[4]

Tenants

• Houston Community College

Former anchors

• Joske's (closed 1987 after Dillard's buyout, demolished, became Magic Johnson Theaters)
• Montgomery Ward (closed 2001)
• Britt's
• Weingarten's
• S.S. Kresge
• Craig's
• Magic Johnson Theaters

See also

Houston portal

• List of shopping malls in Greater Houston

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Dawson, Jennifer. "Northline Mall to be recreated as open-air retail center." Houston Business Journal. Friday February 4, 2005. Retrieved on January 30, 2009. 1.
2. ^ Carey, Isiah. "Can They Save The Northline Mall Area?". Monday, June 18, 2007. Retrieved on January 31, 2009. [1].
3. ^ "3 Dead as Wall at Houston Mall Collapses ." The New York Times. January 31, 1997. Retrieved on January 30, 2009.
4. ^ Sarnoff, Nancy. "Northline Commons heralds a change of pace for old mall". Houston Chronicle. June 23, 2007. Retrieved on January 31, 2009. [2].