La Gran Plaza de Fort Worth
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| Location | Total retail floor area 1,077,782 square feet (100,129.2 m2)[1] | |
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| No. of floors | 2 | |
| Website | www | |
La Gran Plaza de Fort Worth is a Hispanic-themed
History
The center opened for business on March 14, 1962 as Seminary South Shopping Center. It was the first shopping mall built by Homart Development Company, a former division of Sears department stores through which they built shopping malls.[2]
Its original tenants included Sears,
Texas Centers bought the building from Homart in 1985 and announced renovation plans, including enclosure of the formerly open-air concourses.[4][5]
The Stripling's store was later renamed Stripling & Cox before closing in 1989. Around this point, the mall began losing traffic and tenants to other centers in the area, such as Ridgmar Mall and Hulen Mall.[3] Despite the loss of stores, a movie theater and food court were added, the latter replacing G. C. Murphy. As a result of declining traffic, JCPenney closed in 1997, followed by Sears and Dillard's, leaving the mall without an anchor store.[3]
In 2004, Legaspi bought the property, which at the time had only a 10 percent occupancy rate.
References
- ^ "Leasing plan" (PDF). Boxer Properties. Retrieved 3 September 2017.
- ^ "Sears sells Texas mall". Chicago Tribune. December 27, 1985. Retrieved February 19, 2022.
- ^ a b c d "La Gran Plaza de Fort Worth". Fort Worth Architecture. Retrieved 3 September 2017.
- ^ Donna Steph Hansard (April 5, 1986). "Seminary South Redo Planned". The Dallas Morning News.
- ^ "FW Mall's Renovation Completed". The Dallas Morning News. August 28, 1987. Retrieved March 7, 2010.
- ^ Gustafson, Kristina. "Doubling down on the rebirth of the American shopping mall". CNBC. Retrieved 3 September 2017.
- ^ "Partnership buys Fort Worth's Town Center mall". Bizjournals.com. June 17, 2004. Retrieved 3 September 2017.