Irving Mall is an enclosed American

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 ...

located in

Irving, Texas Irving is a city in the U.S. state of Texas. Located in Dallas County, it is also an inner ring suburb of Dallas. The city of Irving is part of the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. According to a 2019 estimate from the United States Census Bureau, ...

, at the intersection of

Texas State Highway 183 State Highway 183 (SH 183) is a state highway in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex in Texas. Its most heavily used section is designated Airport Freeway where it serves the southern entrance of Dallas–Fort Worth International Airport. Histor ...

(Airport Freeway) and Belt Line Road. It has over 80 stores, including four anchor tenants , plus a

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with the only international restaurant being Subway. It is under ownership of

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 ...

. On Sunday, June 13, 2021, Washington Prime Group, which owns Irving Mall, filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

History

The mall opened with

Titche-Goettinger Titche-Goettinger (later known as Titche's) was a department store chain based in Dallas, Texas (United States). It was established in 1902 and was a major player in the Dallas retail market until its merger with Joske's, which was later absor ...

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 ...

, and

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 ...

. JCPenney was closed as part of 44 underperforming stores and closed in 2001. The mall received a renovation in 1984 adding the west wing of the mall along with two new anchors,

Dillard's Dillard's, Inc. is an upscale American department store chain with approximately 282 stores in 29 states and headquartered in Little Rock, Arkansas. Currently, the largest number of stores are located in Texas with 57 and Florida with 42. The ...

and

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, ...

and a new food court. The

General Cinema General Cinema Corporation, also known as General Cinema, GCC, or General Cinema Theatres, was a chain of movie theaters in the United States. At its peak, the company operated about 1,500 screens, some of which were among the first cinemas certi ...

, which opened in 1971 would later expand to 7 screens in the same year. In 1999, General Cinema moved to a spot where a former Wilson's Catalog Showroom used to be. In the same year as part of Irving Mall's redevelopment,

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also opened in the former General Cinema 1–3. Barnes & Noble closed in 2012 and is now a Shoppers World. In 2002,

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took over the former General Cinema at the mall, it was renovated in 2013. Current anchors include

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 ...

, Dillard's Clearance Center,

Burlington Coat Factory Burlington, formerly known as Burlington Coat Factory, is an American national off-price department store retailer, and a division of Burlington Coat Factory Warehouse Corporation with more than 1,000 stores in 40 states and Puerto Rico, with it ...

, and La Vida Fashion and Home Decor. In 2014, the mall was spun off into

. In 2015,

Sears Holdings Sears Holdings Corporation was an American holding company headquartered in Hoffman Estates, Illinois. It was the parent company of the chain stores Kmart and Sears and was founded after the former purchased the latter in 2005. It was the 20th-l ...

spun off 235 of its properties, including the Sears at Irving Mall, into Seritage Growth Properties. On October 15, 2018, it was announced that Sears would be closing as part of a plan to close 142 stores nationwide. The store closed in early January and currently sits vacant.

Shootings

Multiple shootings have occurred at Irving Mall since 1990. In 1990, a man named Eddie Edwards chased his girlfriend in the parking lot and shot her with a .38 caliber revolver. Another man, Tom Broom, stopped Edwards by shooting him in the head twice with a .44 caliber Magnum pistol, killing him. In 1993, a conflict at the mall between two gangs escalated to one person shooting two others, killing an innocent bystander, Kevin Reuss Bacon. On September 4, 2022, shots were fired at the mall when two people were having an argument. No one was struck by the gunfire.

Current anchors

* Dillard's Clearance Center (opened 1984, relocated from Plymouth Park Shopping Center) *

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(opened 2006 in former JCPenney) *

(opened 2006 in former

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 ...

) * Las Lomas Irving Banquet Halls Event Center (opened in 2014 in the first floor of former Mervyn's)

Former Anchors

(opened in 1971, closed 2019)

(opened in 1971, closed 2001)

(opened in 1971, merged with

Joske's Joske's, founded by German immigrant Julius Joske in 1867, was a department store chain originally based in San Antonio, Texas. In December 1928, Hahn Department Stores acquired the company along with the Titche-Goettinger department store of Dall ...

, closed 1979)

(opened 1979, closed 1987 after merging with Dillard's)

(opened 1989, was acquired by Macy's)

(opened 1983, closed 2006) La Vida (closed 2022)

Transportation

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Route goes by it on Belt Line.

References

External links

Irving Mall Website
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