page_title: Mall of the Mainland
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Mall of the Mainland / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Food court inside the Mall of the Mainland in Texas City, Texas
context_page_description: The Mall of the Mainland, formally known as Shops on the Mainland, is a shopping mall located off the Emmett F. Lowry Expressway near Interstate 45 in Texas City, Texas. It was opened in 1991. The mall has 800,000 square feet of space. The mall is anchored by Palais Royal and Cinemark Movies 12, and was closed in late 2014 due to declining tenancy before re-development began in 2015.
context_section_description: The Mall of the Mainland, developed by a joint venture of Edward J. DeBartolo Corp. and the MG Herring Group, opened in 1991. Dillard's and Sears purchased space at the mall in the 1980s. JCPenney was the third anchor circa 1989. An expansion was made to the mall with the addition of a Foley's store in 1994. The developers spent $200 per 1 square foot (0.093 m²) in the development; Joelle Verbecke, a director of acquisitions at the Yari Group, said in 2002 that the $200 per square foot figure was "a hefty sum that means the developers constructed a high-quality mall." J.P. Morgan Chase Bank was the lender. The roof of the mall was damaged by an EF0 tornado on January 9, 2012.
caption: Mall of the Mainland food court
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