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Old 05-12-2010, 07:47 PM
 
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This mall is done! People complain about thugs in Highland Mall. Where do you think they will shop and loiter once it eventually closes?
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Old 05-12-2010, 08:03 PM
 
Location: Round Rock, Texas
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Anywhere that public transportation or a car takes them.
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Old 05-12-2010, 08:14 PM
 
Location: central Austin
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It is not so simple. General Growth Properties is being taken over by another company (forgot the name at the moment) and they are only a half owner of Highland Mall, GGP owns in partnership with Simon Properties and they are very much alive!!

Highland Mall isn't done yet.
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Old 05-12-2010, 08:29 PM
 
Location: 78747
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Anywhere that public transportation or a car takes them.

Such as the Red Line to Lakeline Mall....
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Old 05-12-2010, 09:40 PM
 
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If it goes like all the other dying malls, it will transition for awhile into part big box (like a Walmart, Best Buy, Target or something) with mostly outdoor access. Eventually the inside will close, be torn down and replaced by more adjacent big box, perhaps piecemeal... or, if they are lucky, someone will come in and buy the whole place and tear it down and build something new.

Always wondered when they'll start converting dead malls into condos. The dead malls of today are like the empty warehouses of the late 80s and 90s.
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Old 05-12-2010, 09:44 PM
 
Location: Austin,Tx
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Dillards still has a store in Highland Mall they have a clearance center there

Dillards.com | Highland Mall
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Old 05-12-2010, 09:48 PM
 
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Dillards lease ends in 2011, and they are pulling out at that point.
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Old 05-13-2010, 05:51 AM
 
Location: central Austin
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The neighborhoods around the mall hope for a complete redevelopment, with office towers towards 183, mixed use, residential (sf and multi) and parkland -- there is a stream that runs under the site and there are plans to bring the stream up out of the culvert and let it flow on the surface again and create a greenbelt. I have seen some amazing ideas and most of the zoning is already in place, the only missing piece is financing, large-scale commercial lending is dead, it might take a decade before that type of financing is available . . . on the other hand, someone with very deep pockets who has money on the sidelines might take the project on . . . we'll have to see.

81 acres at what is now essentially the center of the city . . . something great should emerge!
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Old 05-13-2010, 07:14 AM
 
Location: Austin, TX
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It is not so simple. General Growth Properties is being taken over by another company (forgot the name at the moment) and they are only a half owner of Highland Mall, GGP owns in partnership with Simon Properties and they are very much alive!!

Highland Mall isn't done yet.
Geez, will someone please put Highland Mall out of its misery?!

I live in the Skyview neighborhood right around the corner from the mall, and it's really disheartening to see how the mall has become such a waste of space. I'm very much in favor of a complete redevelopment of the area and a rezoning of Airport Blvd from Lamar to I-35. If someone could pull off something like The Triangle, the whole area would improve dramatically.
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Old 05-13-2010, 07:16 AM
 
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Perfect location of the dreamed about State office complex with the rail station only a block away.
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