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]

La Plaza Mall
LocationMcAllen, Texas, United States
Opening date1976[1]
DeveloperMelvin Simon and Associates
ManagementSimon Property Group
OwnerSimon Property Group
No. of stores and services183
No. of anchor tenants5
Total retail floor area1,300,000 square feet (120,000 m2)
No. of floors1 (2 in MADRAG, Zara, Express, Dillard's, H&M, and Macy's home store, and main Macy’s)
Websitewww.simon.com/mall/la-plaza-mall

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

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Former anchors

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

References

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  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.