Location Houston, Texas No. of stores and services 170+ Opened 1978 Number of stores and services 170 Owner GGP Inc. | Opening date 1978 No. of anchor tenants 5 Phone +1 281-488-4627 Number of anchor tenants 5 | |
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Total retail floor area 1,240,000 sq ft (115,000 m). No. of floors 1 (2 in Sears, Forever 21 and Macy's, 3 in Dillard's) Address 500 Baybrook Mall Dr, Friendswood, TX 77546, USA Hours Open today · 10AM–9PMTuesday10AM–9PMWednesday10AM–9PMThursday(Texas Independence Day)10AM–9PMHours might differFriday10AM–9PMSaturday10AM–9PMSunday12–6PMMonday10AM–9PM Similar Deerbrook Mall, Willowbrook Mall, The Galleria, Memorial City Mall, First Colony Mall Profiles | ||
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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.
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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 expansion
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. 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.
Expansion
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). The combined expansion will make it the second largest mall in the Houston area, after The Galleria. 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 (and the first outside of Houston city limits). 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.