North East Mall

North East Mall

Location	Hurst, Texas, US
Opening date	March 25, 1971
Developer	Melvin Simon and Associates (Simon Property Group)
Management	Simon Property Group
Owner	Simon Property Group
No. of stores and services	160
No. of anchor tenants	8
Total retail floor area	1,671,000 sq ft (155,200 m2)[1] (157,935 m²)
No. of floors	3
Website	http://www.simon.com/mall/?id=220

North East Mall is located at 1101 Melbourne Rd (Highways 121/183 and Loop 820 N.) in Hurst, Texas, a Fort Worth suburb. Many people from Fort Worth and Haltom City, Texas use this mall. North East Mall is 10 miles (16 km) west of the Dallas Fort Worth International Airport and 10 minutes east of downtown Fort Worth.

The center originated with a Leonards department store, the Fort Worth-based chain's third location. This store was dedicated July 10, 1970. A single level mall of eighty inline stores was added, which officially opened March 25, 1971. This included a Fort Worth-based Stripling's (inaugurated March 18, 1971) and J.C. Penney (which commenced operation November 3, 1971). North East Mall now encompassed 750,000 leasable square feet. Sears and Montgomery Ward stores were added, which opened in August 1978. This expansion also added twenty store spaces and the United Artists Cinema 6. The gross leasable area of the mall now stood at 1,300,000 square feet (120,000 m²), with 106 inline stores.

In 1977, Fort Worth's Dunlap Company had acquired the W.C. Stripling Company ( Stripling's ). Another local chain, R.E. Cox and Company ( Cox's ), was bought in 1981. These chains were merged into Stripling and Cox in 1983. The North East Mall store was shuttered in January 1986. Dillard's bought the Leonards chain in 1974 and rebranded all stores in 1975. In 1986, they reconfigured their existing North East Mall store as a Dillard's Women's. The vacant Stripling and Cox became a Dillard's Men's.

In October 1998, a 225 million dollar renovation and expansion of North East Mall got underway. Dillard's built a new 3-level store, consolidating the two existing locations, which held its grand opening October 1, 1999. The old Leonards/Dillard's Women's was partially demolished. A new South Wing was built, containing 28 store spaces. This connected to the new Dillard's and a new Foley's, which was built in part of the old Dillard's spot. The Foley's store was dedicated October 16, 2001.

The vacant Stripling and Cox/Dillard's Men's, on the west end of the mall, was knocked down and replaced by Nordstrom, which held its official opening March 22, 2001. On the north end of the mall, Saks Fifth Avenue built a store, taking some previous mall store space. This location opened for business September 16, 2001. The existing J.C. Penney had been expanded by 83,000 square feet (7,700 m²) in 1996. Four parking garages were also constructed as part of the 1998-2001 remodeling.

North East Mall held its official rededication September 15, 2001. The center encompassed 1,671,000 leasable square feet and 140 stores and services. It was now the largest enclosed shopping mall in the Dallas-Ft. Worth Metroplex and the second-largest in Texas, following The Galleria in Houston.

Montgomery Ward had been shuttered in February 2001. There was talk of the store being renovated -and reopened- by Lord and Taylor, but this did not come to fruition. The vacant building was town down in 2003 and replaced with the Rave North East Mall 18 megaplex cinema, dedicated November 4, 2004. The Saks store closed in October 2004 and was retenanted by Dick's Sporting Goods. North East Mall Was Also Nick-Named The Galleria Of Tarrant County, Texas.In Late 2011 Forever 21 opened in the Nordstrom Wing,it was the third largest Forever 21.

Anchors

• Rave Motion Pictures
• Dillard's 299,514 sq ft (27,825.8 m²)
• JCPenney 230,750 sq ft (21,437 m²)
• Macy's 232,800 sq ft (21,630 m²)
• Nordstrom 142,439 sq ft (13,233.0 m²)
• Sears 164,164 sq ft (15,251.3 m²)
• Dick's Sporting Goods (In former Saks Fifth Avenue store)
• Forever 21

Former anchors

• Leonards (became a Dillard's location in 1975 and Dillard's Women's in 1986; replaced 1999)
• Stripling's (became Stripling and Cox in 1983 and Dillard's Men's in 1986; replaced by Nordstrom in 2001)
• Foley's (converted to Macy's on 9/8/2006)
• Montgomery Ward (closed 2001, rebuilt and opened as Rave Motion Pictures)
• Saks Fifth Avenue (closed 2006, reopened as Dicks Sporting Goods)

See also

• List of shopping malls in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex

References

1. ^ Simon Malls: North East Mall - Leasing Information. Retrieved Feb 15, 2007.

External links

• North East Mall home page

Coordinates: 32°49′48″N 97°11′59″W / 32.83°N 97.19972°W / 32.83; -97.19972