North Hills Mall

[North Star]

What's up with North Hills Mall? Is it struggling? I thought it was going to be expanded. Now I hear that some Chinese investors want to buy it and turn it into a Asian mall.

[drumguy8800]

i've never even heard of north hills mall... where is it? I think Six Flags Mall needs to be imploded, on a sidenote... (Actually, I've never been there.. it just looks kinda cruddy.)

[freewaytincan]

What's up with North Hills Mall? Is it struggling? I thought it was going to be expanded. Now I hear that some Chinese investors want to buy it and turn it into a Asian mall.

Better tell Ming "Asians are the next step in our evolution" Zhi. He'd love this!

[bloodandpopcorn]

Who the hell is Ming Zhi? Where is this mall? I think it would be great, and add to the areas diversity (Did you all know that we know have an AM mandarin language radio station? I think it's great that DFW finally has a chance at becoming a cultural haven not just for hispanic immigrants.

But if the mall is way-the-hell-up-in-nowhere, then it should just be destroyed.

[mikedsjr]

But if the mall is way-the-hell-up-in-nowhere, then it should just be destroyed.

Don't try to sound like a jerk just because you hate Fort Worth. North Hills Mall is closer to DTFW than Galleria is to DTD. Its actually about the same distance as Northark is to DTD.

North East Mall is less than a mile away from North Hills Mall. And supposedly NorthEast mall is the largest in Fort Worth. So the life was basically sucked out of North Hills mall.

I'm suprised they even keep it open.

[freewaytincan]

Who the hell is Ming Zhi? Where is this mall? I think it would be great, and add to the areas diversity (Did you all know that we know have an AM mandarin language radio station? I think it's great that DFW finally has a chance at becoming a cultural haven not just for hispanic immigrants.

But if the mall is way-the-hell-up-in-nowhere, then it should just be destroyed.

Ha ha ha! Sorry, just that good friend of mine who is pretty much everything Chinese, in the sense that he's obessed with his heritage. I've mentioned him before.

[Lakewooder]

So, is North East Mall where eminent domain was used to take homes for the mall expansion?

BTW, if a terrorist ever hits an American mall, it's going to probably make them extinct unless they add airport-style security...

[bloodandpopcorn]

mike, i wasn't trying to sound like a jerk. I assumed that North Hills Mall was north of Dallas, since that's where most of the metroplex' asian residents are. I was referring to it being in Frisco or Allen. If it's as near DTFW as the galleria is to DTD, then that's great, and I hope it suceeds. It may still be a bit far for me to go, but I'm glad to see that it will not be way out in nowhere.

Sometimes I do try to be a jerk, but I wasn't here. Sorry.

[freewaytincan]

So, is North East Mall where eminent domain was used to take homes for the mall expansion?

BTW, if a terrorist ever hits an American mall, it's going to probably make them extinct unless they add airport-style security...

Hardly the way you'd want it to happen, though. But then what? Airport security to get out of your home? I still have trouble believing that kind of a situation would go to that extreme. I mean, by that logic, high rises should be "extinct" now.

[rantanamo]

The 9/11 situation would be much easier to prevent than the same thing happening in a mall.

[freewaytincan]

The 9/11 situation would be much easier to prevent than the same thing happening in a mall.

I'm just not fully convinced that just "some mall" would be the next target. Now, if any malls were to be hit, it's most likely be the ones with much more visibility, such as the Galleria, or the Mall of America. Also remember that they go for symbolic targets, too.

[TexasTiny]

i've never even heard of north hills mall... where is it? I think Six Flags Mall needs to be imploded, on a sidenote... (Actually, I've never been there.. it just looks kinda cruddy.) Its in North Richland Hills off Grapevine Hwy (SH-26). Hurst and NRH were playing retail war with each other and Hurst ended up winning after the city bulldozed an entire subdivision to make way for new expansion to Northeast Mall to take the retail tax dollars away from NRH. Dirty trick if you ask me.


Forum 303 is a joke of a mall. Why did they build that in the first place.

[gc]

Forum 303 is a joke of a mall. Why did they build that in the first place.

It used to be a great mall, like back in the eighties. Then came Six Flags Mall and then came The Parks Mall. It has slowly died.

[freewaytincan]

http://a1595.g.akamai.net/7/1595/2000/ff542e3b921a1e/www.northhillsmall.com/mimages/mallmap.gif

[dfwcre8tive]

Redevelopment of North Hills Mall

A groundbreaking ceremony for the Medical Center at Calloway Creek was held on April 4, 2006 on the former North Hills Mall property, adjacent to North Hills Hospital. The construction marks the first step toward the redevelopment of the former North Hills Mall, and is a major accomplishment for the City of North Richland Hills’ economic development.

The Medical Center at Calloway Creek will house state-of-the-art health care in a central location with easy access and ample parking. North Hills Hospital will be the primary tenant in the new Medical Center, leasing more than half of the 80,000 square foot building for an Outpatient Surgery Center, physical therapy, occupational therapy, a Senior Health Center, cardiac rehab and hospital administrative offices. Medical office space will also be available for physicians.

The property will be connected to the hospital’s current campus by a pedestrian bridge crossing Calloway Creek, which will be funded by the City of North Richland Hills. The City has also committed to cleaning and beautifying the creek, along with building 1.5 miles of hike and bike trails. Construction on the $15 million building is scheduled to be completed in the Spring of 2007. The owners, LaVerne Butterfield, LP of California, have worked closely with the City of North Richland Hills and North Hills Hospital to get this project underway. The design team on this project consists of Gagliardi Group, Inc. of Arlington as the architect and mechanical engineer, LopezGarcia Group of Fort Worth as the civil engineer, and Hill & Wilkinson of Plano as the general contractor.

Construction on the Medical Center at Calloway Creek will run concurrently with the addition of two new floors to the existing North Hills Hospital building. Since the expansion was originally announced the hospital has increased the scope of the project, bringing the total investment for the expansion to $32.4 million. Construction on the hospital’s expansion began in the Fall of 2005 and is scheduled to be completed in the Spring of 2007.The construction of Medical Center at Calloway Creek and the expansion of North Hills Hospital are expected to spur additional redevelopment in the surrounding community. Both projects also complement the ongoing efforts by the cities of North Richland Hills and Richland Hills to revitalize Boulevard 26 .

For information relating to the redevelopment of Boulevard 26, please contact the North Richland Hills Economic Development Department at 817-427-6090. Doctors or medical groups interested in leasing space in the Medical Center at Calloway Creek should contact Stephen L. King, Vice President of Leasing at 817-590-0085 extension 203. For information relating to the North Hills Hospital, please contact Bethe Spurlock at 817-255-1893.

PDF OF THIS ARTICLE (http://www.nrhtx.com/pdf/Buzz/Redevelopment%20of%20North%20Hills%20Mall.pdf)

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[dfwcre8tive]

City orders North Hills Mall demolition
Dallas Business Journal - December 1, 2006

After two vacant years, North Hills Mall is scheduled for demolition.

During a three-hour meeting Thursday, the North Richland Hills Substandard Building Board determined the mall buildings are substandard and violate several city codes, including fire and environmental health codes. The board ordered the owners of the mall to begin demolition within 75 days.

The mall, which opened in 1979, has been closed since October 2004. Once a flourishing retail venue anchored by Mervyn's and Foley's, the mall's hallways became more known as a haven for recreational walkers than shoppers. An expansion at North East Mall in nearby Hurst didn't help matters.

Over the years, the mall's ownership changed with new owners touting grandiose plans to transform the mall into an entertainment mecca complete with an indoor skate park, a night club, a movie theater, restaurants and shopping, but the financing never materialized.

Other concepts included converting the space into an Asian shopping center, using mall space to house some of the operations of neighboring North Hills Hospital, according to news reports.

LaVerene Butterfield LP, Tex Mall LP and Tex Merv LP, all of Culver City, Calif., the mall's current owners, announced in March 2005 that they would demolish the facility and redevelop the property with new retail, entertainment and commercial facilities, the city said.

Construction has begun on a new medical office building on the eastern portion of the property, but the rest of the plans are at a standstill, the city said.

The mall's owners couldn't be reached for comment late Friday.

[texastrill]

It's about time.What an eyesore.

[RobertB]

It's about time.What an eyesore.
No more or less than any other suburban mall. I rather liked it, in its day. The only thing I never could figure out was why they built it right next to Northeast Mall -- or was North Hills first, only to be supplanted by its younger cousin? I was hoping that the massive reconstruction of the 121/183/820 intersection would help people find North Hills, but it looks like everything went NEMall's way.

[Dallascaper]

No more or less than any other suburban mall. I rather liked it, in its day. The only thing I never could figure out was why they built it right next to Northeast Mall -- or was North Hills first, only to be supplanted by its younger cousin? I was hoping that the massive reconstruction of the 121/183/820 intersection would help people find North Hills, but it looks like everything went NEMall's way.

NE Mall was built first, around 1970 I think. About the time NE Mall started getting kind of stale, NH Mall was built, around 1980. Smaller than NE Mall, but fresh and new, NH was a hit; so much so that it received a major expansion around '94. The reconstruction of the 820 interchange hurt NH badly, but it was the huge expansion of NE that was the death-blow.

I’m hoping the owners replace North Hills with something worth getting excited about, but that area already seems saturated with retail.

[NThomas]

Could townhomes be on the way or just more retail that area is lacking that kinda of housing and with quick access to 820 communiting would be a breaze (till you got on 820, but that's another story)

[RobertB]

Could townhomes be on the way or just more retail that area is lacking that kinda of housing and with quick access to 820 communiting would be a breaze (till you got on 820, but that's another story)
You might be able to tout the location's access to the new commuter rail. Potential station locations are a couple of miles away... except that they're in Haltom City or NRH, which aren't yet part of the rail party. Oops!