For La Plaza shopping center in Palm Springs, see La Plaza (Palm Springs).

La Plaza Mall is a regional shopping mall located in McAllen, Texas, at the intersection of Interstate 2 (Expressway 83) and 10th Street. It has 1,300,000 square feet (120,000 m2) of gross leasable area and features 184 specialty stores, many of which are flagship stores, and restaurants.[2] The mall is one of the highest-grossing operated by Simon, and the largest mall in south Texas.[3]

An original tenant of the mall was a Woolworth dime store, the second in McAllen, which closed in 1997.[4] 1998 expansion brought Dillard's as an additional anchor.[5] Another original tenant was a Jones & Jones department store, which was sold to Foley's in 2000[6] and again to Macy's in 2006.

Anchors

Former anchors

  • Sears - closed November 2015. Replaced by an expansion of La Plaza Mall, opened in late 2017.

References

  1. ^ "City of McAllen History". Retrieved January 6, 2013.
  2. ^ La Plaza Mall information sheet Archived 2014-10-19 at the Wayback Machine. Accessed January 6, 2013
  3. ^ "Spotlight on Business: La Plaza Mall – rgVision Magazine". Archived from the original on 2014-09-11. Retrieved 2014-09-11.
  4. ^ "July/18 Woolworth will close stores". Brownsville Herald. Retrieved 3 January 2019.
  5. ^ "Keeping An Eye On The Future". National Real Estate Investor. 1 November 1998. Retrieved 3 January 2019.
  6. ^ "Valley retail pioneer Jim Jones dies at 80 - Local News - the Monitor". www.themonitor.com. Archived from the original on 11 September 2014. Retrieved 2 February 2022.