Suggestions Abound for Red Bird Mall
January 29, 2008
The Dallas Morning News has an article about the struggling Red Bird Mall (now, Southwest Center Mall). The mall has been struggling since the early 1990s, when it developed a reputation for crime. It was foreclosed on in 2003 and purchased by Dallas-based developers in 2005.
At 1.3 million square feet, Southwest Center is half-empty. Macy’s, Burlington Coat Factory and Sears are the mall’s anchors, but J.C. Penney and Dillard’s have left in favor of newer outdoor developments in Cedar Hill.The mall could benefit from becoming a mixed-use development, said Frank Mihalopoulos, whose Corinth Properties has built retail centers in Cedar Hill and is redeveloping an older mall in Nashville, Tenn.”It needs a school or a government office, a data processing operation or a hospital facility, some kind of nontraditional use that will fill the space. It needs to be more than a mall.”Barry Pener, vice president of the Kansas City-based chain of 34 stores, said he heard about the new Cedar Hill shopping center a couple of months ago.”It will probably take some business from us, but we do OK,” he said. “That store is an average one for us. It does fine.”
Source: Dallas Morning News
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