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| Location | The Woodlands,Texas,United States |
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| Coordinates | 30°09′50″N95°27′20″W / 30.164°N 95.45543°W /30.164; -95.45543 |
| Address | 1201 Lake Woodlands Drive |
| Opening date | October 5, 1994; 30 years ago (1994-10-05) |
| Developer | Homart Development Company and The Woodlands Corporation |
| Management | Brookfield Properties |
| Owner | Brookfield Properties |
| No. of stores and services | 160[1] |
| No. ofanchor tenants | 6 |
| Total retail floor area | 1,355,000 sq ft (125,900 m2)[1] |
| No. of floors | 2 |
| Website | www |
The Woodlands Mall is a two-story, enclosedshopping mall located at the intersection ofInterstate 45 and Lake Woodlands Drive in the community ofThe Woodlands inunincorporatedMontgomery County,Texas,United States, north ofHouston. The Woodlands Mall features sixanchor stores:Dick's Sporting Goods,Dillard's,Forever 21,JCPenney,Macy's, andNordstrom.[1] With agross leasable area of 1,350,000 square feet (125,000 m2),[1] The Woodlands Mall is considered a super-regional mall by industry definitions.[2] The Woodlands Mall is managed byBrookfield Properties.
Having grown from its initial roots as a resort-oriented master-planned community first begun in 1974, developerGeorge P. Mitchell'sThe Woodlands began to rapidly grow with an influx of new families from Houston and other areas, and had also gained national prominence from the community being both host to theShell Houston Open and home to theCynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion, which opened in 1990. By the 1990s, the community (and Montgomery County) had grown enough to the point where a new super-regional mall became a key priority of the community's developer, The Woodlands Corporation, who sought to develop the mall as part of itsTown Center development.
The Woodlands Mall opened on October 5, 1994 with over 120 stores, including anchor tenantsDillard's,Foley's,Mervyn's andSears, whoseHomart Development Company jointly built the mall with The Woodlands Corporation.[3][4] This was the final development by Homart, which was acquired by General Growth Properties the following year. In addition, the mall also contained a carousel and adjacentfood court on its upper level, and several restaurants and smaller retailers on the periphery.
Before The Woodlands Mall opened, retail offerings in The Woodlands were largely limited to grocery-anchored neighborhood village centers as well as a smaller-scale mall known as The Wharf located in the village ofGrogan's Mill, and many residents of The Woodlands and Montgomery County (as well as the nearby community ofHuntsville further north) traveled toGreenspoint Mall in north Houston for broader retail options, with many also opting to travel further down theNorth Freeway via opposite ends ofFM 1960 toWillowbrook Mall orDeerbrook Mall (respectively northwest and northeast of Houston, and coincidentally also developed by Homart) for broader shopping options. Greenspoint was the mall most directly impacted by The Woodlands Mall's opening, as Greenspoint consequently lost virtually all of its most critical (and most affluent) customer base, though Greenspoint already had been in decline due to competition from the more popular offerings at Willowbrook and Deerbrook (which sustained themselves due to rapid suburban growth in their respective trade areas), as well as increased criminal activity within the Greenspoint area that further drove shoppers away from Greenspoint Mall.
In 1998,JCPenney opened in an empty anchor space situated between Sears and Dillard's in the mall's northeast corner. In 2004, a 150,000-square-foot (14,000 m2) outdoor section was added featuring aBarnes & Noble bookstore, several upscale shops, and Class A office space, as well as a 1.4-mile (2.3 km) waterway, which features awater taxi.[1][5] In April 2007, the mall partnered with NearbyNow, a digital applications company based inCalifornia, to offer shoppers a service that allows them to search for items at the mall through theircell phones or home computers.[6]
Since The Woodlands Mall's opening, there were 3 anchor changes:
In 2016,Dick's Sporting Goods opened a two-story location in the mall's last remaining anchor space, located at its southeast corner between the main entrance of the mall andDillard's, as part of the chain's entry into the Houston area with six locations (including at The Woodlands Mall and all four of its sister malls in the Houston area).
This year alone, Homart will open the 1 million-square-foot Woodlands Mall in Woodland, Texas...
