Baybrook Mall
| Location | Houston, Texas |
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| Coordinates | 29°32′32″N 95°08′54″W / 29.54217°N 95.148403°WCoordinates: 29°32′32″N 95°08′54″W / 29.54217°N 95.148403°W |
| Address | 500 Baybrook Mall Friendswood, TX USA |
| Opening date | 1978 |
| Owner | General Growth Properties |
| No. of stores and services | 195 |
| No. of anchor tenants | 5 |
| Total retail floor area | 1,240,000 sq ft (115,000 m2). |
| No. of floors | 1 (2 in Sears, Forever 21 and Macy's, 3 in Dillard's) |
| Website | Official Website |
Baybrook Mall is a shopping mall located in Houston, Texas. The mall is located off Interstate 45. It has a Friendswood mailing address, and it is also in proximity to Webster and the NASA Johnson Space Center. The mall's anchor stores are Dillard's, JCPenney, Macy's, Sears, and a large-scale Forever 21.
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 square feet (115,200 m²) of retail space.
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. Law/Kingdon was the original architect.
In 1985 an expansion commenced that added Macy's and Mervyn's 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.
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 1988. 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.
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