Labelscar: The Village of Hammond Square

Hammond Square Mall (1976-early 2000s)/The Village of Hammond Square (Early 2000s-2007)
Hammond, LA

Jamie from Louisiana alerted us to some news with the Louisiana’s Hammond Square Mall, which closed for good yesterday, March 31st. The 430,000 square foot mall, which opened in 1976 in Hammond, a college town about 45 minutes northwest of New Orleans, is being shut to make way for a 800,000 square foot lifestyle-power center combo to be built in its place.

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Labelscar: Randall Park Mall

Randall Park Mall (North Randall, Ohio)/1976-2009

The year was 1976 and the retail boom of building enclosed malls was near its peak. Cleveland was no exception; even during a period of economic despair they joined the rest of America’s retail building boom, and embarked upon building behemoth retail centers across the metropolitan area. The largest of these ever to be built, even as of 2007, was the Randall Park Mall in the tiny southeast suburban village of North Randall.

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Wikipedia

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Mall Hall of Fame

Deadmalls.com

Foley's Store Locator

Here are the list of Foley's locations in Texas. Foley's was a department store based in Houston, Texas, and had 84 locations at its peak. This is an "organic" blog post...soon more pictures will be added, and more states will be added. Of course, they all became Macy's in September 2006. Since then, a few have closed.

5/23/09: There have been more Texas locations added on. Arizona, New Mexico, and Oklahoma to come.

===TEXAS===
Arlington (Six Flags Mall)
Opened 1970 as Sanger-Harris
Rebranded as Foley's in 1987
Closed 2005

Arlington (The Parks at Arlington)
Opened 1990

Austin (Barton Creek Square)
Opened 1982

Austin (Highland Mall)
Opened 1979

Baytown (San Jacinto Mall)
Opened 1981

Beaumont (Parkdale Mall
Opened 2002 in former Montgomery Ward

Cedar Park (Lakeline Mall
Opened 1995

College Station (Post Oak Mall)
Opened 1982

Corpus Christi (Padre Staples Mall/La Palmera)
Opened 1986

Dallas (Red Bird Mall/Southwest Center Mall)
Opened 1975 as Sanger-Harris
Rebranded as Foley's in 1987

Dallas
Opened 1965 as the Sanger-Harris flagship store
Rebranded as Foley's in 1987
Closed 1988

Dallas (Valley View Center)
Opened 1973 as Sanger-Harris
Rebranded as Foley's in 1987
Closed 2008

Dallas (NorthPark Center)
Opened 1997

Denton (Golden Triangle Mall)
Opened 2003 in former Montgomery Ward

Fort Worth (Hulen Mall)
Opened 1977 as Sanger-Harris
Rebranded as Foley's in 1987

Houston (Almeda Mall)
Opened 1966
Closed since Hurricane Ike (2008) but set to reopen

Houston (Memorial City Mall)
Opened 1974
Moved to new location in mall 2001, original location demolished for new mall space

Houston (Northwest Mall)
Opened 1967
Closed since Hurricane Ike (2008)

Houston (Sharpstown Center/Sharpstown Mall)
Opened 1961
Closed in 2008

Houston (West Oaks Mall)
Opened 1982

Houston (Deerbrook Mall)
Opened 1984
Closed since Hurricane Ike (2008) but set to reopen

Houston (Willowbrook Mall)
Opened 2003 in former Montgomery Ward as Foley's Home

Houston (Willowbrook Mall)
Opened 1981

Pasadena (Pasadena Town Square)
Opened 1962
Mall opened 1982

Sugar Land (First Colony Mall)
Opened 1996

Texas City (Mall of the Mainland)
Opened 1994?

The Woodlands (The Woodlands Mall)
Opened 1994


===LOUISIANA===
Baton Rouge (Mall at Cortana)
Opened 2003 in former Parisian

Baton Rouge (Mall of Louisiana)
Opened 2003 in former Parisian

Lafayette (Mall of Acadiana)
Opened 2003 in former Parisian

Lake Charles (Prien Lake Mall)
Opened 2003 in former Montgomery Ward
Closed 2008

===COLORADO===
Aurora (Aurora Mall/Town Center at Aurora)
Opened 1975 as Denver Dry Goods
Rebranded as May D&F Women's in 1987
Rebranded as Foley's Women's in 1993
Absorbed into other location in 2005
Foley's building is now a Dillard's

Aurora (Aurora Mall/Town Center at Aurora)
Opened 1975 as May D&F
Rebranded as May D&F Men's in 1987
Rebranded as Foley's Men's in 1993
Rebuilt in 2005 as Foley's

Broomfield (FlatIron Crossing)
Opened 2000

Boulder (Crossroads Mall/29th Street District)
Opened 1983 as May D&F
Rebranded as Foley's in 1993
Mall closed 2004
Store remained open

Centennial (Southglenn Mall)
Opened 1974
Mall closed 2006
Store remained open

Colorado Springs (Chapel Hills Mall)
Opened 1982 as Joslin's
Foley's opened in 1998 when Joslin's left

Colorado Springs (The Citadel Mall)
Opened in 1972 as May D&F
Rebranded as Foley's in 1993
Macy's will close the store in 2009

Denver (Cherry Creek Shopping Center)
Opened in 1990 as May D&F
Rebranded as Foley's in 1993

Denver (Southwest Plaza)
Opened in 1982 as May D&F
Rebranded as Foley's in 1993

Englewood (Cinderella City Mall)
Opened in 1985 as Broadway Southwest
Rebranded as May D&F in 1987
Rebranded as Foley's in 1993
Closed 1994
Mall closed 1997
Foley's building is now a library and other city offices

Lakewood (Villa Italia)
Opened 1983 as Broadway Southwest
Rebranded as May D&F in 1987
Rebranded as Foley's in 1993
Mall closed 2001
Closed 2003
Foley's building is now a Dick's Sporting Goods

Lone Tree (Park Meadows)
Opened 1997

Loveland (The Promenade Shops at Centerra)
Opened 2005

Westminster (Westminster Mall)
Opened 1986 as May D&F
Rebranded as Foley's in 1993

Fort Collins (Foothills Mall)
Opened 1974 as May D&F
Rebranded as Foley's in 1993

REFERENCES
1) Most were from Wikipedia
2) Denver Dry at Aurora was here: http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-5048564.html. It handled women's after the conversion.

Circuit City Going Out of Business

A year ago I would've been floored that Circuit City would go completely dead. After all, the "distant third" CompUSA had gone dead, and they were clearly suffering. With Best Buy at the top, what will compete? Will anything?

I just can't help but compare it to Montgomery Ward.

1) Highly damaging to retail, many stores closed
2) Last ditch remodeling/rebranding ("The City" vs. "Wards")
3) A distant second place
4) "Reborn" as online only marketplace

Welcome to Retail Addiction!

What is Retail Addiction? It's a lot of things really. It's where you'll find an assortment of items found nowhere else. You'll find mirror posts of the late blog "Malls of America", run by Detroit resident Keith Milford, a bunch of older scanned mall directories, old newspaper articles, and much more. Contact me at earthboundman@NOSPAMgmail.com. Remove the NOSPAM when you send it, by the way!

Mandatory first post. This is my blog, mostly for capturing the essence of MallsofAmerica before it disappears forever. It was a blog run by Keith Milford, a resident of Detroit. But you'll see some other neat stuff, too. Original stuff.