Meyerland Plaza is a large
shopping center
A shopping center (American English) or shopping centre (Commonwealth English), also called a shopping complex, shopping arcade, shopping plaza or galleria, is a group of shops built together, sometimes under one roof.
The first known collec ...
located in southwest
Houston,
Texas, United States.
Meyerland Plaza is located in the
Meyerland neighborhood of Houston and is just outside the
610 Loop. The anchor stores are
JCPenney,
Target,
Ross Dress for Less,
Marshalls,
Texans
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Fit,
H-E-B,
Old Navy, and
Office Depot
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. There are 5 vacant anchor stores that were once
Bed Bath & Beyond,
Palais Royal,
Stein Mart
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,
Best Buy
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, and
Pier 1 Imports.
History
Meyerland Plaza opened on October 31, 1957. Around the time the ''
Houston Chronicle'' stated that Meyerland Plaza was "in the heart of the luxury residential additions of
Southwest Houston." A ''Houston Chronicle'' article from October 27, 1957 stated that Meyerland Plaza was developed to maintain the
suburb
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an atmosphere that was present in surrounding areas.
[Gonzalez, J.R.]
Meyerland Plaza in Pictures
" '' Houston Chronicle''. February 3, 2010. Retrieved on February 15, 2010. Meyerland Plaza was originally built as Houston's second "regional mall".
[Rutledge, Tanya.]
Meyerland Plaza up for sale after redeveloper revives mall
" '' Houston Business Journal''. Friday August 2, 1996. Retrieved on October 12, 2009. The mall originally housed a
Henke & Pillot supermarket.
[Gonzales, J.R.]
Houston's own Henke & Pillot
" '' Houston Chronicle''. October 20, 2010. Retrieved on January 13, 2011. "Offices at 3021 Washington"
The shopping center started to decay in the 1980s.
Meyerland Co., which was a former owner of the center, filed for bankruptcy in 1987. Lamar Savings Association and Continental Savings Association foreclosed on the center later that year.
The center has been re-developed as a
power center Power center may refer to:
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*Power center (retail)
A power center or big-box center (known in Canadian and Commonwealth English as power centre o ...
; its official grand re-opening was in 1995.
On Memorial Day, May 30, 1961, the "Hero Tree" was dedicated as a living memorial to Capt.
Gary L. Herod
Captain Gary L. Herod (December 10, 1929 – March 15, 1961) was a Texas Air National Guard pilot who was killed when his T-33 jet trainer crashed on the afternoon of March 15, 1961.
Shortly after takeoff from Ellington Field southeast of Ho ...
for his heroism. The tree and a stone marker were located along Beechnut Street near Compass Bank. In February 2018, as the section of Meyerland Plaza was to be redeveloped, Embark Tree and Landscape Services arborist Steve Navarro determined the tree was in poor health. The tree was cut down in July 2018 and given to the Woodworkers Club of Houston be turned into souvenirs, while the plaque was moved to Herod Elementary School.
Shops
H-E-B opened a supermarket in Meyerland Plaza in 2019; its previous Meyerland store, located elsewhere, closed in 2017 after
Hurricane Harvey
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.
leased of space in Meyerland Plaza in 2008.
The Meyerland Plaza
Bed Bath and Beyond
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Bed Bath & Beyond was founded in 1971. It is counted among the Fortune ...
closed in 2020.
References
External links
Meyerland Plaza* "Meyerland Plaza Shopping Center"
JPGPDF
. Harris County Assessor's Block Book Map. Volume 85, Page 573.
* Talmadge, Candace.
Archive
- Article on Meyerland Plaza's rebirth
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Shopping malls in Houston
Shopping malls established in 1957