Seminary South opens as Fort Worth's first shopping mall, then becomes a mercado
La Gran Plaza, Fort Worth, Texas
Save Share
Sears built this through its Homart development arm on the filled bed of Katy Lake, and it opened on 14 March 1962 with twenty-four stores, a Mid-Century Modern open-air plan and a seven storey office tower. Four architecture firms from Fort Worth, Dallas, Chicago and New York worked on it. The centre was roofed over in 1987 as Fort Worth Town Center, lost most of its anchors by the early 2000s, and reopened in 2005 as La Gran Plaza, rebuilt around an indoor mercado for a largely Latin American trade.
Similar places Desert Sky Mall, the west Phoenix shopping centre that turned into a mercado 1981 · Maryvale, Phoenix, Arizona Big Town Mall was the first enclosed shopping mall in the Southwest 1959 · Mesquite, Texas Macroplaza Mall, the Pasadena mall rebuilt as a Mexican market 1982 · Pasadena, Texas Lakeside Shopping Center, the mall that pulled retail off Canal Street 1960 · Metairie, Louisiana Landover Mall, and the Sears that owned the ground under it 1972 · Landover, Maryland
That was 1 of the hidden places.
SEE THE REST · FREE ACCOUNT
Location: historic site
This place has its own thread on r/rawstates
Read what people are saying about it, or add your own.
Is this information accurate?
Tell us what's off