San Jacinto Mall

infobox shopping mall
shopping_mall_name = San Jacinto Mall
location = Baytown, Texas (USA)
opening_date = 1981
manager = Triyar Cannon Group
owner = Triyar Cannon Group
number_of_stores = 100+
floors = 1, with partial upper level
website = http://www.sanjacintomall.com

San Jacinto Mall is a large regional shopping mall located in Baytown, Texas along Interstate 10. It is currently managed by Triyar Cannon Group. The mall has a Gross leasable area of 1,156,000 ft². [ [http://www.icsc.org/apps/dmmdisp.php?dispid=TX0280 International Council of Shopping Centers data for San Jacinto Mall] , accessed January 4, 2007]

The mall's current owner has announced that they are putting the mall up for sale. [ [http://web.baytownsun.com/story.lasso?ewcd=08e085def4d5cded Mall put up for sale] , "Baytown Sun", December 7, 2006]

History

San Jacinto Mall opened its doors in 1981 [ [http://houston.bizjournals.com/houston/stories/1998/04/13/newscolumn4.html New owner mulls `big changes' for troubled San Jacinto Mall] , "Houston Business Journal", April 10, 1998] and was built relatively large for its area outside of Houston, gaining criticism. The mall was relatively large. It had four huge wings, shaping much like an overlapping "L". Where the "L"s overlapped was a JCPenney and a food court [ [http://www.labelscar.com/texas/san-jacinto-mall San Jacinto Mall, Labelscar] ] . The other wings had each one anchor and one junior anchor: there was a wing with Mervyns with Service Merchandise as its junior anchor, a wing with Foley's with Palais Royal as its junior anchor, a wing with Montgomery Ward and junior anchor Bealls, and a wing with Sears and junior anchor The Fair, now occupied by Marshall's. But over the years, the mall had trouble competing with other businesses in the area. The mall began losing stores as the people of Baytown simply preferred to shop at Katy Mills, The Galleria, or other malls in Houston. The other malls in the Houston area eventually stole the stores away from San Jacinto Mall. The anchors eventually left. Service Merchandise and Montgomery Ward closed 2001, with Bealls leaving the same year. These anchors were never retenanted. The next large hit happened in early 2006, when Mervyns closed all their Houston stores. This left another section of the mall without anchors. Around that time, the former Bealls/Wards corridor was sealed off and is soon to be a lifestyle center, though no details were ever fully released on that. Finally, Foley's was rebranded as Macy's in September 2006. The mall was never renovated, although a movie theater was added near the food court. The food court is only part of the mall that is doing well, while the mall as a whole is 2/3 vacant.

Anchors

*JCPenney
*Macy's
*Marshalls
*Palais Royal
*Sears

Former anchors

*Bealls (closed 2001, vacant)
*Mervyns (closed 2006, vacant)
*Montgomery Ward (to be torn down)
*Service Merchandise (closed 2001, vacant)

References

External links

* [http://www.sanjacintomall.com/ Official Site]
* [http://www.mallhistory.com/sjm Information from MallHistory.com]
* [http://www.labelscar.com/texas/san-jacinto-mall Labelscar summary]