Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 23. Chapters: Big Town Mall, Casa Linda Shopping Center, Collin Creek Mall, Firewheel Town Center, Galleria Dallas, Golden Triangle Mall, Grapevine Mills, Highland Park Village, Hulen Mall, Irving Mall, Mockingbird (DART station), Montgomery Plaza, NorthPark Center, North East Mall, North Hills Mall (North Richland Hills), Prestonwood Town Center, Richardson Square Mall, Ridgmar Mall, Six Flags Mall, Southlake Town Square, Southwest Center Mall, Stonebriar Centre, The Parks at Arlington, The Shops at Willow Bend, Town East Mall, Uptown Village at Cedar Hill, Valley View Center, Vista Ridge Mall. Excerpt: Valley View Center is a super-regional shopping mall located at Interstate 635 and Montfort Road in north Dallas, Texas, USA. The mall is owned and managed by Dallas-based Beck Ventures. The mall's current anchors are Sears, JC Penney, and AMC Theatres. Originally developed in 1973, the mall flourished and expanded in the 1980s but began to encounter financial difficulties in the 1990s. The Bloomingdale's anchor closed in 1990, which triggered a court battle when Montgomery Ward tried to buy the space, then sat empty until JCPenney opened in 1996. The mall's original movie theater closed in 1991, sat empty for a decade, and was replaced by a radio station. A new, larger movie theater opened in the mall in 2004. Two of the five anchor locations closed in 2008. As of 2012, they remain vacant and the mall's parking deck has been fenced off. The 2010s have seen the mall change ownership and management several times. Demographic shifts and declining occupancy led the current owners to announce plans to redevelop the mall and surrounding property. North entrance, June 2012The mall was developed in 1973 when Homart Development Company, the real estate development subsidiary of Sears, Roebuck & Co., added a Sanger-Harris and several...