![]() ![]() ![]() In November 2015, Baybrook Mall completed the first part of a two-phase expansion, part of a plan to help Baybrook compete with both the Pearland Town Center and the Tanger Outlet Mall in Texas City, which have direct competition with Baybrook (even though Baybrook is considered the dominant shopping center in the immediate trade area). The combined expansion will make it the second largest mall in the Houston area, after The Houston Galleria. The first phase consists of a lifestyle addition that adds several upscale stores and restaurants, as well as a Star Cinema Grill and the Greater Houston region's third Dave & Buster's. In 2015, Sears Holdings spun off 235 of its properties, including the Sears at Baybrook Mall, into Seritage Growth Properties. In 2006, Macy's returned to Baybrook when its parent company acquired Foley's and converted its stores to the Macy's nameplate. JCPenney would eventually fill the previous Montgomery Ward/Foley's space. After Montgomery Ward went bankrupt in 2001, the former Wards space was eventually filled by Foley's which filled the space temporarily until it acquired the Dillard's previously occupied by Joske's and built a new store in its place in late 2004. In 1997, Macy's vacated the mall when it sold its three suburban Houston locations (other than its store at the Galleria) to Dillard's, which continued to maintain the store it had acquired from Joske's in 1987. In February 1989, Baybrook Mall was 96% occupied, making it the mall with the second highest percentage of occupied space in the Houston area. In 1984, the mall expanded with the opening of Mervyn's and then Macy's in 1985 as the two new anchors. The first anchor tenants were Montgomery Ward, Sears, and Joske's. Though considerably large for its trade area at the time, the mall quickly became successful with the trade area's affluent customer base that previously went to Almeda Mall for retail services (even though that mall continued to prosper with anchors Foley's and JCPenney). Baybrook Mall was first conceived in 1973 as a regional mall serving the growing Clear Lake Area and became reality when construction of the mall completed in 1978. ![]()
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