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Highland Park Village is an upscale shopping plaza located at the southwest corner of Mockingbird Lane and Preston Road in Highland Park, Texas and was the first self-contained shopping center in America. The Highland Park Village was declared a National Historic Landmark in 2000. [3] [4]
The history of shopping malls in Texas began with the oldest shopping center in the United States, Highland Park Village, which opened in 1931 in the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex. [1] The latter and Greater Houston area are both home to numerous regional shopping malls and shopping centers located in various areas of the city.
In 1988, Homart, a then-subsidiary of Sears, planned to develop a million-square foot mall in Frisco, which consisted of roughly 6,000 people at the time. [2]When Plano city officials learned of Homart's plan, they offered $10 million if the company decided to move its planned mall across Texas Route 121 into their city limits.
Frisco Square, a mixed-use development, became the new downtown along with the city hall. Frisco Square has about 250 rental residential units, seven restaurants, about 40,000 square feet (3,700 m 2) of commercial office space, and a few personal-service locations. The major development in the project is the new city hall, main library, and ...
In 1931, Highland Park Village was constructed, the first shopping center of its kind in the United States. Because of its location near Dallas, Highland Park had, by the early 1930s, developed a moderately large (8,400) population, with a few businesses. Eventually the school districts and newspapers of Highland Park and University Park were ...
A Dillard's department store opened with the mall on July 29, 1981. [5] The store was the third Dillard's to be built in the area, following those at Valley View Center and Richardson Square Mall. [23] On October 7, 2013, Dillard's announced that its Collin Creek location would close by January 2014. [24]
Originally opened in August 1998 at the Inwood Village shopping center, [51] [52] the Dallas Children's Museum relocated to Valley View Center in June 2000. [53] The new museum, double the size of the previous location, was on the second level of the mall between the former JCPenney and the space once occupied by the Disney Store. [54]
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