Stonebriar Centre, commonly referred to as Stonebriar Mall, is a mid-range

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 at the intersection of Preston Road ( SH 289) and the Sam Rayburn Tollway ( SH 121) in

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It is currently anchored by

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, the first KidZania location in Texas,

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, and H&M, with one vacant anchor last being occupied by

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 ...

. The mall also has a 24-screen

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, a

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with a carousel, a

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, and a Smokin' Oak Wood-Fired Pizza & Taproom which was previously

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History

In 1988, Homart, then a subsidiary of Sears, planned on putting a million square foot mall in Frisco, which was a town of about 6,000 people at the time. When Plano city officials learned of Homart's plan, they offered $10 million if the company would move its planned mall across the road into their city limits. Frisco lobbied to keep the planned mall and was able to work out tax incentives to close the deal. Plano then convinced another company,

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, to place a mall within their city limits. In 1995, General Growth acquired Homart, who had already signed an agreement with Frisco. The City of Frisco made a final offer to General Growth of a half-cent sales tax rebate, property tax abatement for ten years, and infrastructure improvements in and around the mall. Plano continued to lobby hard for the new mall and Frisco eventually upped its sales-tax grant. Frisco finally opened the mall on August 4, 2000. In July 2013, the

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at the mall, The Ice at Stonebriar, was closed. In 2015,

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spun off 235 of its properties, including the Sears at Stonebriar Centre, into Seritage Growth Properties. In 2016, the mall's AMC theatre located on the upper levels was closed for three months for updating and remodeling. In 2017, Carlo's Bake Shop opened at the mall. However, it would permanently close a few years later. In May 2018, construction began on the 18-story Stonebriar Hyatt Hotel which would be attached to the mall. It opened to the public in June 2020. Also in May 2018, a teenager was arrested for planning to commit a mass shooting at the mall. In 2019, Stonebriar Centre would lose one anchor but gain another. Near the end of 2018, it was announced that Sears would close as part of

filing for bankruptcy protection, with the liquidation of Stonebriar's location being completed by January 2019. In the fall of 2019, KidZania opened adjacent to Dillard's and the former Sears in the space previously occupying the ice rink. This was KidZania's first location to be opened in Texas. That same year,

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closed its store at the mall along with its location at

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in Plano, relocating to

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. In November 2019, an Amazon 4-Star store and the sixth in the United States opened within the mall, but it was later closed in 2022. California Pizza Kitchen closed its location at Stonebriar in mid-July 2020. It has since been replaced by Smokin' Oak Wood-Fired Pizza & Taproom, which opened in the fall of 2022.

Foiled terrorist plot

In May 2018, 17-year old Matin Azizi-Yarand was arrested at

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for planning a terrorist attack on the mall. Starting from December 2017, he spoke to an undercover FBI agent posing as an

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member. He was held on $3 million bond. In May 2019, he was sentenced to 20 years in prison. Azizi-Yarand is currently incarcerated at

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with a scheduled release date of April 30, 2038.https://inmate.tdcj.texas.gov/InmateSearch/search.action

Anchor tenants

The following are the anchor stores of the mall: Stonebriar-7231

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— *

— , former

Galyan's Galyan's Trading Company was an American sporting goods chain. It was founded in Plainfield, Indiana. The store began in 1946 as a grocery store, founded by Albert and Naomi Galyan. By the 1960s, the Galyans began selling sporting goods instead. ...

store until 2004 *

— , former Macy's store until 2006 *

— *

— * KidZania — *

— , formerly

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 ...

until 2006 *

— *

— * H&M —

Former tenants

(converted to

in 2004) *

(

May Department Stores The May Department Stores Company was an American department store holding company, formerly headquartered in downtown St. Louis, Missouri. It was founded in Leadville, Colorado, by David May in 1877, moving to St. Louis in 1905. After many ch ...

bought out by Federated; all Foley's stores rebranded as Macy's) *

(Moved into former

space) (converted to

in 2006) *

— (store closed in 2019 as part of Sears Holdings' bankruptcy)

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