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A second hotel also opened as part of Galleria II on November 18, 1977, [13] the 500-room Galleria Plaza Hotel (now The Westin Galleria Houston). Marshall Field's joined the mall in 1979, in a store designed by noted architect Philip Johnson. In 1986, a second major expansion, Galleria III, opened with a new wing to the west of Marshall Field's ...
Mark Shale has since been replaced with two restaurants, Weber Grill Restaurant (now closed) and Texas de Brazil, and Helium Comedy Club. In 2017, the mall was the site of protests after the acquittal of a white police officer in the shooting of Anthony Lamar Smith. [10] There were arrests of 22 people. [11]
The franchise was a full-time member of the Eastern Junior Hockey League (EJHL) from 1998 to 2013. The team was originally formed in 1993 in the Junior B Metro League. In 1997–98, they played a handful of games against the EJHL, and became a full-time member a year later.
Uptown is also host to Houston's largest hotels, which host about 20 million visitors a year. [citation needed] A major feature of Uptown Houston is The Galleria, the largest shopping mall in the state of Texas and the seventh-largest in America. The Galleria hosts many of the upscale shops of the area as well as citywide chain stores that ...
The property, prior to development, was owned for several decades by the famed Desloge family of St. Louis consisting of virgin, old-growth oak forest. [6] The Desloge family, in the 1940s, acquired the property upon which part of the property contained a steeplechase course of the Bridlespur Hunt Club founded by August A Busch, Sr in 1927. [7]
Interstate 610 to the north, Beltway 8 to the south, and Texas State Highway 288 to the east Baybrook Management District Baybrook Mall: Farm-to-Market Road 528 to the south, Interstate 45 to the east and north Downtown District Downtown: Enclosed by Interstate 45, Interstate 10, and Interstate 69 (U.S. Highway 59) East Downtown Management District
Greenspoint Mall was a shopping mall located in the Greenspoint neighborhood of Houston, Texas, at the northeast corner of Interstate 45 and Beltway 8 (also known as the Sam Houston Parkway/Tollway). The only remaining anchor is Fitness Connection, which occupies half of the former Lord & Taylor / Mervyn's store on the west side of the mall.
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]