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The Memorial Theater, which was a single-screen cinema in operation since June 1962, was connected with the interior of the mall. A Montgomery Ward store opened in 1972 as the mall's second anchor store. Foley's opened a store in 1974 in the mall's new East Wing. Lord & Taylor opened a store in 1977
This is the third mall to be built in Houston after Gulfgate Mall opened in 1956 and Meyerland Plaza in 1957, but the first fully air-conditioned mall in Houston. The area includes the Jewelry Exchange Center, a ten-story building. [1] After the mall was renamed PlazAmericas, it took a Latin American theme and catered to Hispanics. [2]
Harris County Constable Precinct 7 has its offices in Palm Center. [15] [16] A branch of the Harris County Tax Office is in the same complex. [17] There is a U.S. post office and an office of Neighborhood Centers, Inc. within Palm Center. [18] The Houston Business Development, Inc. (HBD) and the Business Information Center (BIC) are in Palm ...
As Kay Jewelers, Zales, and Jared stores were forced to temporarily close across the country, many customers were left without the jewelry they had brought in to locations for repair. Since ...
In the 1930s, Highlands had 20 businesses and its population decreased from 350 to 200. The 1936 Harris County highway map indicated two churches, a factory, a school, and a sawmill in Highlands. Highlands housed military members and war plant personnel during World War II. By 1948, Highlands had 3,000 residents and 75 businesses.
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Gerland's acquired several stores from the defunct Weingarten chain in 1981, and operated more than 40 store locations in the Houston area by 1990. While most were company-owned, a handful of the Gerland's stores were independently owned franchises. [citation needed] In 1994 Gerland acquired five stores from Appletree Markets. [4]
The first Globe Discount City opened in Houston in November 1960 by United Mercantile Inc. United had formed earlier in 1960 to operate the existing seven-store chain of Danburg's Department Stores which had existed since the 1930s and the forthcoming big-box Globe retail locations – the first three of which were each built with over 100,000 square feet of space. [2]