History
Boston, Massachusetts-based Berenson Associates Inc. developed the mall in the 1960s. Northline Mall opened nearly 47 years ago as one of Houston's premier weather-controlled malls.
On January 31, 1997, a twenty-foot wall in Northline Mall adjacent to a construction site where the Magic Johnson Theatres cinema was being built collapsed, killing at least three people.
Beginning in the 2000s Northline Mall will be redeveloped from a traditional mall to an 850,000-square-foot (79,000 m2) open air "power center" consisting of "big box" retail and general merchandise stores. Eastbourne Investments, a New York real estate fund, bought a 50 percent equity stake in Northline on December 31. 2004. Berenson hired Fidelis Realty Partners, a firm in Houston, to redevelop the mall and repopulate it with tenants.
Wal-Mart Stores purchased 19 acres (77,000 m2) from the owners for a Supercenter, which will be at Crosstimbers and Fulton, adjacent to new multitenant retail buildings. Houston Community College also acquired land for a new campus on about 14 acres (57,000 m2) along the Fulton side of the property.
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