[RIP] Greenspoint Mall (July 4, 1976 - July 31, 2024)

Right now it's all about Almeda Mall. Still surviving, thriving

 

Town and Country is closest to where I live and where I grew up…it’s now CityCentre where I spend a ton of time for business and on date nights with my wife. Retail/office/living mixed used stuff done pretty well, honestly. The company that created it is Midway and they’re killing it with that concept, honestly.

Memorial City is doing great honestly. It’s a really good mall, and they have plans on the way….doing a whole mixed use thing there…and the corporate tenants they have in their “new” buildings around the mall are fantastic. They’ve created an area that’s brought in a lot of people to live, work, and eat etc.

West Oaks…so when I was in law school, my wife and I lived in an apartment literally RIGHT ACROSS Richmond from West Oaks Mall. That was late 90’s. She taught elementary school right around the corner from there when she was putting me through law school. I can confirm that I did a lot of Bar Exam studying (which was an all day job) at that mall food court which included (you guessed it!) a James Coney Island. The best thing I’m aware of there now is a Dillard’s outlet which has dress shirts and ties and other crap on super duper sale all the time. I never go there unless my family is out of town, and then I walk in to see if I can buy a nice dress shirt for $15 lol. West Oaks Mall always reminded me of Twin Pines Mall in Back to the Future. If you told me they filmed those scenes in that parking lot, I’d believe you.

The Galleria in all of its Gallerias is still a Houston landmark…sometimes my wife and I do random weekend staycations at that Westin and eat in one of the restaurants there…and while she sleeps in the morning, I wake up and grab coffee and walk the mall like I’m 70 years old. Kinda cool to walk that space when nothing is open and it’s quiet…or just waking up.

 

My favorite part was when you said “the guy you know is holding and selling” as if I know what that means lol!!!

 

I guess Gulfgate is still around. I wasn't sure it would be. I saw E.T. at Gulfgate on opening day. I still remember parts of the experience. They had big theaters. Those still open?

Or, what about the movie theaters at Almeda that were directly across from each other? Those still there? I saw "Return of the Jedi" at one of those. First and only time I ever saw crowds stand up and cheer loudly when the characters first appeared on screen. It was kind of embarrassing...cheering at a screen like that. I sat there in shock when it happened! I also camped out in the parking lot of one of those theaters for "Van Halen" tickets. A buddy and I partied when we got there. We passed out and woke up in the morning only to see the line was already hellish long. DOH! We were the only ones there when we arrived but they wouldn't allow you on the Mall lot to line up until morning. We ended up getting Upper Prom for 2nd of 3 shows they sold tickets for that day. Totally blew it!!!! We would have had front row for sure if we just stayed awake! Most frustrating part was watching the people in front jumping up and down coming out with front row tickets. Last, I saw "Rocky IV" at Baybrook Mall theater. I was playing football. I was there with a few friends and then like 20 members of the team showed up. They occupied like the first 5 rows on the right and I was sitting about ten rows behind them with some friends. They hooted and hollered like crazy during the fight. It was embarrassingly funny but mostly embarrassing imo. Sorry for the tangent.

Never went to Greenspoint. Not even sure where it is? lol

 

i remember greenspoint having a really cool playground in the late 70's/early 80's.

 

Consider yourself invited to come on any of my party safaris, compadre. I can’t guarantee you’ll remember much.

 

Well, thats not gonna work...

 

My parent s tell me that Greenspoint was a super high class mall when it first opened but then Imperial Valley and tens of thousands of cheap apartments turned it to Gunspoint

 

Baybrook still thriving… suprisingly.

 

Bye Gunspoint. Looks like it is basically going the way of Northline Mall? I remember that mall because my mom taught at the HCC there. Now it's a suburban style shopping center but looks like they're leaning for residential for the Greenspoint redevelopment.

Who remembers that Sealy outlet mall? I remember going to that thing a couple times as a little kid but then Katy Mills opened which killed the Sealy outlets and started the decline of west oaks too.

Katy mills was my mall though. Acted a whole foo in there. We'd show up, play some games at Jillians, walk around to see who was at the mall/whose coming, not buy anything (or barely anything), mob the food court, then see a movie at the AMC afterwards.

 

Meyerland was my mall growing up but would
Also go to Sharpstown and later Westwood. Didn’t go much to Greenspoint as it was much further from where I grew up.

Would hit the Galleria when my family felt like spending money and remember ice skating there.

The covered mall model is having trouble in the US but is still going very strong in Asia. Much of city planning in the PRC and other Asian countries is around shopping malls.

 

It's just like, it's just like, a mini mall.

 

Yeah, it had a great arcade. It was one of the first arcades to start using tokens instead of quarters. I remember we would always tell the token guy that a machine took our tokens and he would just give us more. He was probably stoned.

I do remember seeing The Wall at the movie theater at some point. It was a dump but you couldn't beat the price. The Spirit Airlines of movie theaters.

I think it had a couple of good record stores there too.

 

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It wasn't really big, but we could walk to it, there was a Target on the end and then you would walk through it to other stores, its not like that now, you enter everything from the outside and that place is a dump now. There was a record store inside the mall that I worked at and also at the theatre. They closed the theatre a few years ago and I slipped in to look at it and OMG what a trashy dump.

 

I'm surprised Pasadena Town Square has lasted this long. You need to do a drug deal or get your freak on.....seems like the place to be.

 

the shoe and jewelry capital of Southeast. We still have Macys too

 

it bit the dust. Permanently closed

 

Well, sort of. It's still around.....just renamed to Macroplaza Mall.

https://macroplazamall.com/
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/lifestyle/article/macroplaza-mall-pasadena-town-square-18681788.php