Baybrook Mall

Baybrook Mall is a shopping mall located near the Clear Lake City area and in Houston, Texas;[4] It has a Friendswood mailing address,[5] but it is in the Houston city limits.[6] The mall is located off Interstate 45.[7] and it is also in proximity to Webster and the NASA Johnson Space Center.[7] The mall's anchor stores are a Dick's Sporting Goods and Field & Stream combo store, Dillard's, JCPenney, Macy's,[8] and a large-scale Forever 21 with one vacant anchor last occupied by Sears.

Baybrook Mall
LocationClear Lake, Houston, Texas, United States
Coordinates29°32′32″N 95°08′54″W
Address500 Baybrook Mall
Opening date1978 (1978)
DeveloperHomart Development Company
ManagementBrookfield Properties Retail Group[1]
OwnerBrookfield Properties Retail Group[2]
No. of stores and services204[3]
No. of anchor tenants6 (5 open, 1 vacant)
Total retail floor area1,498,786 sq ft (139,241.8 m2).[3]
No. of floors1 (2 in Forever 21, Macy's and former Sears, 3 in Dillard's)
Websitebaybrookmall.com

It is located 18 mi southeast of downtown Houston at Interstate 45 South and Bay Area Blvd. It has five major anchors and more than 170 stores and restaurants. It has 1,240,000 sq ft (115,000 m2) of retail space.

History

Early years

Baybrook Mall was first conceived in 1973 as a regional mall serving the growing Clear Lake Area and became reality when construction of the mall completed in 1978. Though considerably large for its trade area at the time, the mall quickly became successful with the trade area's affluent customer base that previously went to Almeda Mall for retail services (even though that mall continued to prosper with anchors Foley's and JCPenney). The first anchor tenants were Montgomery Ward, Sears, and Joske's.

In 1984 the mall expanded with the opening of Mervyn's and then Macy's in 1985 as the two new anchors. In February 1989 Baybrook Mall was 96% occupied, making it the mall with the second highest percentage of occupied space in the Houston area.[9]

In 1997, Macy's vacated the mall when it sold its three suburban Houston locations (other than its store at the Galleria) to Dillard's, which continued to maintain the store it had acquired from Joske's in 1987. After Montgomery Ward went bankrupt in 2001, the former Wards space was eventually filled by Foley's which filled the space temporarily until it acquired the Dillard's previously occupied by Joske's and built a new store in its place in late 2004. JCPenney would eventually fill the previous Montgomery Ward/Foley's space. In 2006, Macy's returned to Baybrook when its parent company acquired Foley's and converted its stores to the Macy's nameplate.

Expansion

In 2015, Sears Holdings spun off 235 of its properties, including the Sears at Baybrook Mall, into Seritage Growth Properties.[10]

In November 2015, Baybrook Mall completed the first part of a two-phase expansion, part of a plan to help Baybrook compete with both the Pearland Town Center and the Tanger Outlet Mall in Texas City, which have direct competition with Baybrook (even though Baybrook is considered the dominant shopping center in the immediate trade area).[11] The combined expansion will make it the second largest mall in the Houston area, after The Galleria.[7] The first phase consists of a lifestyle addition that adds several upscale stores and restaurants, as well as a Star Cinema Grill and the Greater Houston region's third Dave & Buster's. The second phase will consist of a new 270,000-sq. ft. power center that is slated to be constructed adjacent to the lifestyle expansion, with Dick's Sporting Goods (one of five being proposed throughout Greater Houston) as one of the anchor tenants.[12]

On June 22, 2017, Sears announced that its store would be closing as part of a plan to close 20 stores nationwide. The store closed in September 2017.[13]

References
  1. "Baybrook Mall | Retail Space in Friendswood, TX". www.ggp.com.
  2. https://www.ggp.com/properties/property-details/baybrook-mall.html
  3. General Growth Properties: Baybrook Archived 2011-07-02 at the Wayback Machine, accessed January 17, 2011
  4. "SN_81.pdf" (Archive). Retrieved on March 31, 2014.
  5. "Contact Us." Baybrook Mall. Retrieved on March 31, 2014. "Mall Location 500 Baybrook Mall Friendswood, Texas 77546"
  6. "City of Houston Annexation FAQ". City of Houston. 1996-10-31. Archived from the original on 1996-10-31. Retrieved 2018-04-24. Numerous residents of the City of Houston have Missouri City, Webster, Friendswood, Stafford, Humble and even Kingwood addresses. - Maps for comparison: Map of the city of Houston, 8 x 11 version.
  7. Kaplan, David. "Major expansion set for Baybrook Mall." Houston Chronicle. March 24, 2014. Retrieved on March 31, 2014. "The company that owns the indoor shopping complex off the Gulf Freeway in suburban Webster will add 555,000 square feet of retail, restaurant and entertainment space and create a community lawn the length of a football field."
  8. "Directory." Baybrook Mall. Retrieved on April 24, 2018.
  9. Bivins, Ralph. "Sales at Houston malls rise/Local retailers cite improving economy, shuttle flights." Houston Chronicle. Friday February 17, 1989. Business 1. Retrieved on August 3, 1989.
  10. http://www.seritage.com/retail/property/300-baybrook-mall/3312629/landing
  11. http://www.yourhoustonnews.com/bay_area/news/baybrook-mall-plans-massive-expansion/article_b9e4843d-c469-57a0-b2a7-c3afcb04b5eb.html
  12. "Dick's Sporting Goods expands to metro Houston with five stores". Houston Chronicle. Retrieved 2015-12-10.
  13. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2017-08-11. Retrieved 2017-06-22.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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