Heritage Park Mall: Midwest City, Oklahoma on DeadMalls.com

HERITAGE PARK MALL: MIDWEST CITY, OK

Jack Trader's Commentary

Posted April 29, 2006 (user submitted)

Heritage Park Mall opened in 1971. The mall was quite packed throughout the 1970's & 1980's. Since I was born in 1976, my memories are only of it during the 1980's mostly.Heritage Park Mall sits on the northwest corner of Reno Boulevard & Air Depot Boulevard in Midwest City.

During the 1980's, the mall was found to be mostly packed, especially during the weekends. Shoppers would flock to the many stores inside the mall. Stores included, but not limited to: Sears, Dillards, Montgomery Wards, and Wilson's. The store known as Wilson's soon left in the mid 1980's and was soon replaced by Service Merchandise. Service Merchandise had closed shop by 1999, and is now a locally owned novelty shop called A-Z Outlet. Other tenants in the mall were Spencer's Gifts, Hickory Farms, Olga's Kitchen, Musicland Records, Disc Jockey, and Jeans West. There was also a pet store and even a 3 screen theatre located inside the mall.

The economy of Midwest City is largely supplied by the nearby Tinker Air Force Base.Today, Heritage Park Mall is held together only by 2 remaining anchor stores, Dillards and Sears. Sears is largely responsible for keeping what is left of the mall from folding into closure, as it is the only Sears stores within a good 10 mile radius. (The next closest Sears store is located at S.W. 44th and Western Avenue). Many advertising attempts were done in the 1990's to try to revitalize the mall's commerce-but sadly all have failed. Most of the former shoppers of Heritage Park Mall, now make the commute to either Crossroads Mall, Quail Springs Mall, or Penn Square Mall. Crossroads Mall is the closest to Midwest City at about 8 miles away. The mall is still in existence, but is nearing the fate of extinction unless strategic efforts are put into place to revitalize the mall. There a just a few stores that are in existence which include Waldenbooks, Radio Shack, Zales Jewelry, Chick Fil-a..most of these would have already closed out if it was not for the traffic generated by both Sears & Dillards.

Wesley Horton’s Commentary:

User submitted in 2021

Heritage park mall got off to a great start in the mid 1970's. It was located in a bedroom community of Oklahoma city, and was near Tinker Air Force base. It once had a nice arcade, and a great little 3 screen theatre with little competition. The problems started in the late 1980's. A sizeable part of Midwest city is minority. I recall going out one friday evening around 1988 only to be met with roving gangs yelling insults at other gangs. Security was essentially feckless. They never made much of a serious attempt to fix the problems and quickly lost retailers and customers. I never went back.

Pam’s Commentary:

User submitted Jun 2006

Heritage Park Mall opened in October of 1978. Wilson's was a leather store not a Jr. Anchor in the Service Merchandise space. Service Merchandise had always been in that location until they closed. The mall was previously owned by the huge Simon Property Group. In the last 10 years Simon Property Group started selling off their smaller community malls. In the process of doing so, they cut off the cash flow into these malls instead of keeping them afloat. After years of no improvements to the mall, in May 2005 it was purchased by a California company with plans for renovations within the next 5 years. Interior painting, seating areas, landscaping, interior plant decor and 4 new HVAC units have already been added to the mall with a new renovation plan put into place. A new leasing company is approaching numerous potential tenants daily. Out of 70 possible leasable locations 40 are currently occupied. I personally believe that it will not be necessary for Heritag
e Park Mall to be listed on your site after the renovations are complete. Have a great day!

Shelley Parker Chandler’s Commentary:

User submitted in 2022

Every store is now shuttered. The church may still be active. Kind of hard to tell.

Maryann Srbljan’s Commentary:

User submitted in 2019

Crossroads is now closed. The Sears and Dillards are also closed at this mall. Last time I was there, some of the mall was leased to a church..

Miller, Chris’s Commentary:

User submitted Jan 2007

Here's a page that has some new information on Heritage Park Mall in Midwest City, OK. I'm not sure when the page was last updated, but hopefully it will do something to keep HPM from becoming one of the dead malls.

http://www.freewebs.com/heritageparkmall/

Chris