NorthPark Center
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Dallas, Texas,  United States
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| Coordinates | 32°52′7″N 96°46′24″W / 32.86861°N 96.77333°WCoordinates: 32°52′7″N 96°46′24″W / 32.86861°N 96.77333°W |
| Address | 8687 North Central Expressway |
| Opening date | 1965 |
| Developer | NorthPark Development Company |
| Management | NorthPark Management Company |
| Owner | NorthPark Development Company |
| Architect | Omniplan |
| No. of stores and services | 225 |
| No. of anchor tenants | 7 |
| Total retail floor area | 2,000,000 sq ft (185,800 m2) |
| No. of floors | 4 |
| Parking | 9,000 |
| Website | Official Website |
NorthPark Center is a large enclosed shopping mall located in Dallas, Texas (United States). The mall is located at the intersection of Loop 12 (Northwest Highway) and US 75 (North Central Expressway). The center has over 235 stores and restaurants. NorthPark is the first shopping center featured on Vogue Magazine. It has annual sales of more than $1 billion. NorthPark Center is ranked at number nineteen for one of the largest malls in the United States, based on esri.com.
In the early 1960s, developer Raymond Nasher leased a 97-acre (390,000 m2) cotton field on the edge of Dallas and hired E.G Hamilton of Harrell+Hamilton Architects. NorthPark Center opened in 1965, as then the largest climate-controlled retail establishment in the world, and is now owned, managed, operated and leased by husband and wife David J. Haemisegger and Nancy A. Nasher (Ray's daughter). For its first 34 years, NorthPark stood on land leased from the Caruth family’s foundation. David and Nancy Nasher purchased the property in 1999. In 2006, NorthPark opened its doors to an expansion that more than doubled the size of the existing center, adding an 88,000 sq ft Barneys New York store as a new anchor. (Barneys turned out to be one of the Center's few failures in recent history; it closed its doors in 2012.) For its expansion, NorthPark brought back the same architecture firm that designed the original section to ensure its aesthetic was respected and enhanced. The expansion also included a new collection of specialty retail shops and a third-floor 16-screen AMC theater. The new two-story expansion finally provided for circulation around the Center, by forming a continuous loop through the entire complex.
The American Film Institute's Dallas International Film Festival was sponsored by NorthPark Center in 2009. The event was held in the AMC NorthPark 15 Theater, which also hosted screenings during the festival’s first two years.
Best known as an art museum inside a shopping center, in November 2007, NorthPark Center was named as one of the "seven retail wonders of the modern world" along with Neiman Marcus’ store at Natick Collection in Massachusetts, Japan’s Mikimoto store in Ginza, England’s Bullring shopping center, Poland’s Złote Tarasy in Warsaw, Apple’s flagship store in New York City and Italy’s Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II .
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