Vista Ridge Mall

infobox shopping mall
shopping_mall_name = Vista Ridge Mall


caption =
location =Lewisville in Denton County, TX, USA
opening_date = October 4, 1989
developer =
manager = General Growth Properties
owner = General Growth Properties
number_of_stores = 160
number_of_anchors = 5
floor_area = convert|1046000|sqft|m2|-2|abbr=on [http://www.ggp.com/properties/Centerinfo.asp?smuid=614 General Growth Properties] Vista Ridge Center Information. Retrieved Feb 14, 2007.]
floors = 2
parking = 6,300
website = [http://www.vistaridgemall.com/ vistaridgemall.com]

Vista Ridge Mall is a shopping mall in Lewisville, Texas, and was constructed in 1989. It is located on the southwest corner of Round Grove Road and the portion of Interstate 35E known as Stemmons Freeway. It contains a total of 160 stores, 5 of which are anchor tenants.

The mall celebrated its grand opening on October 4, 1989, with Sears and Dillards as its initial anchor stores.cite news |work=Dallas Morning News |title=Vista Ridge Mall celebrates grand opening in Lewisville |date=1989-10-05 |quote=Vista Ridge Mall, a joint venture by Homart Development Co., Herring Marathon Group Inc. and JCP Realty Inc., celebrated its grand opening Wednesday in Lewisville. Located on Stemmons freeway, Vista Ridge is a two-phase development with national and local stores, restaurants, a 12-cinema complex and upon completion, six major department stores. The shopping center is currently anchored by Sears Roebuck and Co. and Dillards Department Stores.] By March 1990, an additional 19 stores had opened including The Gap, Casual Corner, and The Limited and Vista Ridge Mall was 65 percent leased.cite news |work=Dallas Morning News |title=New Vista Ridge Mall attracting interest, shoppers |date=1990-03-04 |first=Susan |last=Waller] The mall added a third anchor store when J.C. Penney opened its Vista Ridge Mall store on August 1, 1990.cite news |work=Dallas Morning News |title=Penney's store opens Aug. 1 |date=1990-07-24 |first=Pat |last=Baldwin] The fourth anchor store to open was a Foley's, a unit of May Department Stores, as part of an expansion push by the chain.cite news |work=Dallas Morning News |title=Foley's plans to open store at Lewisville mall |date=1989-05-10]

In 1991, the mall went through interior renovations to make the indoor areas more appealing.

When Vista Ridge Mall opened in 1989, it included Cinemark's Movies 12 whose marquee and ticket office were in the center court of the mall.cite news |work=Dallas Morning News |title=Lewisville joins the return to theater elegance with Movies 12 |date=1989-12-03 |first=Philip |last=Wuntch] In 2006, the Cinemark movie theater, which was previously located indoors, constructed an attached 15 screen movie theater to the mall and relocated there upon completion.

The August 2000 opening of new regional mall Stonebriar Centre in nearby Frisco affected the sales of Lewisville's Vista Ridge Mall and Plano's Collin Creek Mall as both malls experienced what Larry Howard, vice president for development of General Growth Properties Inc., called "some cannibalization".cite news |work=Dallas Morning News |title=Frisco, Texas, Shopping Mall Fights to Attract Holiday Traffic |date=2000-12-07 |first=John |last=KirkPatrick |url=http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-6451386_ITM] Stonebriar Centre and Vista Ridge Mall are both owned by General Growth Properties.

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