Sunland Park Mall is a

shopping mall A shopping mall (or simply mall) is a North American term for a large indoor shopping center, usually anchored by department stores. The term "mall" originally meant a pedestrian promenade with shops along it (that is, the term was used to refe ...

El Paso, Texas El Paso (; "the pass") is a city in and the county seat, seat of El Paso County, Texas, El Paso County in the western corner of the U.S. state of Texas. The 2020 population of the city from the United States Census Bureau, U.S. Census Bureau w ...

, owned and operated by

Washington Prime Group Washington Prime Group Inc. is an American real estate investment trust that invests in shopping centers. The company is organized in Indiana with its headquarters in Columbus, Ohio. From January 2015 to September 2016, the company had the name WP ...

. It is located on El Paso's west side, at

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and Sunland Park Drive. It features five anchor stores operating under four brand names, and more than 130 specialty stores on two enclosed levels. It is the second-largest mall of the three in the metro area, behind

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. With a

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of , the mall is classified as a

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by the

International Council of Shopping Centers The International Council of Shopping Centers, doing business as ICSC, is the global trade association of what it calls the "Marketplaces Industry" (i.e., shopping centers, shopping malls, and all other retail real estate). Founded in 1957, it fe ...

. Construction of the mall was completed in 1988, and it opened to the public on August 31 of that year. It is approximately one mile from

Sunland Park Racetrack & Casino Sunland Park Racetrack & Casino is a racino located in Sunland Park, New Mexico, a suburb in Southern New Mexico. Opened in 1959 as a Thoroughbred racing track, Sunland Park was the only legalized gambling venue in the region for many years. In ...

, a

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just across the state line in

Sunland Park, New Mexico Sunland Park is a city in southern Doña Ana County, New Mexico, United States, on the borders of Texas and the Mexican state of Chihuahua, with Ciudad Juárez adjoining it on the south and El Paso, Texas on the east. The community of Santa Te ...

. It is about four miles (6 km) from the border with Mexico. Macy's closed its Sunland Park Mall store in 2017. Western Wear moved into the former Macy's space. Forever 21 closed in 2018. On November 8, 2018, it was announced that Sears will be closing this location in early 2019 a part of a plan to close 40 stores.

Anchors

* Dillard's Men * Dillard's Women *Starr Western Wear *Conn's (Old Sears) *TruFit Athletic Club (Old Sears) *Monkey Rock Family Entertainment Center (Opening April-May 2022 in Old Sears Space)

Former Anchors

Foley's Foley's was a chain of department stores owned by May Department Stores and headquartered in Downtown Houston, Texas. On August 30, 2005, the division was dissolved and operation of the stores was assumed by Federated's Macy's West and Macy's Sout ...

(became Macy's in 2006) *

Forever 21 Forever 21 is a multinational fast fashion retailer headquartered in Los Angeles, California, United States. Originally founded as the store Fashion 21 in Highland Park, Los Angeles in 1984,Forever 21History & Facts, n.d. Retrieved 27 April 2014 ...

(closed in 2018) *

JCPenney Penney OpCo LLC, doing business as JCPenney and often abbreviated JCP, is a midscale American department store chain operating 667 stores across 49 U.S. states and Puerto Rico. Departments inside JCPenney stores include Mens, Womens, Boys, Gir ...

(closed in 2002, replaced by Foley's) *

Macy's Macy's (originally R. H. Macy & Co.) is an American chain of high-end department stores founded in 1858 by Rowland Hussey Macy. It became a division of the Cincinnati-based Federated Department Stores in 1994, through which it is affiliated wi ...

(closed in 2017, replaced by Starr Western Wear) *

Mervyn's Mervyn's was an American middle-scale department store chain based in Hayward, California, and founded by Mervin G. Morris (1920–2021). It carried national brands of clothing, footwear, bedding, furniture, jewelry, beauty products, electronics, ...

(closed in 2008, replaced by Forever 21) *

Montgomery Ward Montgomery Ward is the name of two successive U.S. retail corporations. The original Montgomery Ward & Co. was a world-pioneering mail-order business and later also a leading department store chain that operated between 1872 and 2001. The curren ...

(closed in 2001, replaced by Dillard's Men) *

Sears Sears, Roebuck and Co. ( ), commonly known as Sears, is an American chain of department stores founded in 1892 by Richard Warren Sears and Alvah Curtis Roebuck and reincorporated in 1906 by Richard Sears and Julius Rosenwald, with what began a ...

(closed in 2019) * The Popular Dry Goods (closed in 1995, replaced by Sears)

Wurlitzer theatre organ

A Mighty Wurlitzer

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, originally located in El Paso's Plaza Theatre, was located at the mall while the shuttered theater was being renovated for reopening. The organ was returned to the area from a

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collector and installed at the mall. The organ returned to the Plaza when it reopened in 2006.History of the Plaza Theatre and its organ
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References

External links

WP Glimcher

Sunland Park Mall website
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