Mall of Abilene is an enclosed shopping mall in Abilene, Texas. It is located in the growing south side of the city, at the southwest corner of the busiest intersection in Abilene at Buffalo Gap Road and US 83/84 (Winters Freeway). It serves a 22-county trade area. Five stores anchor the mall JCPenney, Dillard's, Sears, Best Buy, and Books-A-Million. The mall also houses the 15,000 sq ft (1,400 m2) Premiere Cinema 10. The mall's gross leasable area of nearly 1,000,000 sq ft (93,000 m2) consists of a total of 179 stores, excluding the theater, 7 of which have a leasable area of at least 56,000 sq ft (5,200 m2). It also boasts an annual foot traffic of 19.2 million visitors.
Mall of Abilene was built in 1979, with Dillard's, JCPenney, Sears, H. J. Wilson Co.(later Service Merchandise, now the second Dillard's store) and Grissom's (later Dunlap's, now Best Buy and Books-a-Million) as its anchor stores. The mall received an extensive renovation throughout its common area in 2005, including an 1,100-square-foot (100 m2) Healthy Fun Play Area installed near JCPenney.
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“A father ... knows exactly what those boys at the mall have in their depraved little minds because he once owned such a depraved little mind himself. In fact, if he thinks enough about the plans that he used to have for young girls, the father not only will support his wife in keeping their daughter home but he might even run over to the mall and have a few of those boys arrested.”
—Bill Cosby (20th century)