Southwest Center Mall (formerly known as Red Bird Mall) is a shopping mall located in Dallas, Texas. Southwest Center Mall, originally owned by the DeBartolo family, opened in 1975. It was, and remains, the only major shopping mall located in the southern half of Dallas. The mall's original name, Red Bird Mall, came from the Red Bird area of Dallas in which it is located.
Initially, the mall was anchored by four department stores:
- Sears, which anchored the eastern end of the mall, and is still operating
- J. C. Penney, which anchored the western end of the mall until 2001; The City of Dallas had possession of the space under a 6 month option to buy, which expired on June 7, 2010 (building has since been demolished).
- Sanger-Harris (later Foley's, now Macy's), whose store was in the middle of the mall on the northern side
- Titche's (later Joske's, then purchased by and renamed Dillard's), currently building this venue is in the middle of the mall on the southern side
Later, Montgomery Ward added a store near the Sears location, on the same side of the mall as Dillard's, but it was swiftly replaced by a Burlington Coat Factory. Many of the stores in the mall were either opening their first stores in the southern sector of Dallas, or relocated from older shopping centers in the area.
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