VALLEY VIEW MALL: DALLAS, TX
Jake V's Commentary:
Posted month January 13, 2011 (user submitted August 27, 2008)
Valley View Mall is located less than a mile from the upscale Galleria Dallas and just a few miles from the ultra upscale and behemoth Northpark Mall, near Highland Park. This mall was built from out from an existing Sears store in the early 1970�s and initially included anchor tenets Bloomingdales, Sanger Harris, Joske�s (or maybe Dillard�s, i�m not certain) and Sears, of course.
In recent years, it anchors have included JCPenny, Dillards, Sears, and Foley�s (converted to Macy�s in 2006), along with an AMC cinema. However, over the past year, the mall has fallen on especially hard times. This past March, Macy�s shut its doors for good since it has a very successful location at the Galleria almost next door. Then, on July 2, Dillard�s announced that it would be closing its store by the end of August, leaving JCPenny, Sears, and the theaters as the only anchors.
This mall is located in a particularly upscale part of Dallas surrounded by large office towers and other similar developments. The land which the mall sits on is extremely valuable in itself. For this reason, a complete redevelopment is highly likely considering the wave of development occuring in the area. If you are interested in seeing this mall before it is gone for good, I would recommend visiting soon since its real estate is so valuable.
Although the mall tends to attract a lower-end clientele due to its anchors, crime does not seem to be a factor here since the mall is located in a highly upscale portion of Dallas. In my opinion, the biggest factor in this mall�s decline has been intense competition, In Dallas, the high-end dollar primarily flows to Northpark Center and the Galleria Dallas, which are both located within close proximity to the mall. In addition, Stonebriar Centre, a new mega mall in nearby Frisco has pulled significant foot traffic away from other malls in northern Dallas and nearby suburbs Plano and Frisco with its mid to high end shops and large variety of restaurants. As a result, this overmalling has created intense competition for other nearby malls such as Valley View and Collin Creek Mall in Plano.
Dallas is one of the most overmalled cities in the United States, with several malls dead or dying (and several more recently torn down). Therefore, Valley View will most likely just become another casuality added to a lengthy list.
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Yves Adele Harlowe’s Commentary:
User submitted in 2024I spent a huge chunk of my teens at this mall in the 1990s, especially after I learned to drive. One of my first jobs was in a knockoff sort of Le Madeline clone cafe that later became a Häagen-Dazs.In the early 1990s, there was a fantastic new age store that sold crystals, which didn't last long (I think it was upstaged by Earthbound Trading Company.) Valley View also had all the other popular mall stores, plus GAME CHEST! Game Chest was a popular destination for tabletop gamers like me, and they managed to hang on even into the 2010s, long after things started to go downhill. This mall had a long, steady decline after the 1990s, and it was obviously on life support by 2012 or so. But afrer Game Chest folded, I really didn't have a reason to come back.
Eliza Belle’s Commentary:
User submitted in 2023valley view has been completely demolished as of may 2022. there are plans for a park and possibly an amazon warehouse/hq. the amc didn't come back after the pandemic, which was the only functioning storefront in the entire mall for the last 3 years it was there. even walking to get there, you could everything else was blocked off. they had these huge escalators to get to the amc and leaving a movie at night was so creepy. like the escalator just led you to complete darkness towards the mall exit. me and my friends only went to that amc bc the tickets were so cheap.
Tabitha Cole’s Commentary:
User submitted in 2020As of March 2019, from what I have read, all of the tenants were informed in january 2019 to be out of the Valley View mall by the end of February 2019 and as of March 8, 2019 the only thing I know of still running is the AMC theater which is playing Captain Marvel and HTTYD 3 among other current movies??
Howard Kevin Barber’s Commentary:
User submitted in 2019As of Sept 13, 2018, Valley View Mall still stands as a ghost mall: https://www.dallasnews.com/.../dallas-finally-sues-valley...
Will Bryant’s Commentary:
User submitted in 2019I worked at the Bloomingdale’s in Valley View Center before it closed down in 1990. There were a number of reasons the store failed, but the main reason was that they carried completely different merchandise than the other Bloomingdale’s stores in New York and California. Dallasites wanted a place to buy New York fashion and high-end brands; Bloomingdale’s buyers were more interested in putting their own spin on western wear and cowboy boots (more the TV show “Dallas” than actual Dallas).