Macroplaza Mall, formerly Pasadena Town Square Mall and Plaza Paseo Mall, is a regional shopping mall in

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, southeast of

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. Developed by Federated Department Stores Realty and attached to an existing

Foley's Foley's was a regional chain of department stores owned by Federated Department Stores (1947–1988, 2005–2006), later owned by May Department Stores (1988–2005) and headquartered in Downtown Houston, Texas. On August 30, 2005, the divisi ...

Department store, it opened March 1982. The mall originally featured Joske's,

, and

Palais Royal (Houston-based department store) Palais Royal was an American chain of department stores, owned by Stage Stores, Inc. and headquartered in Houston, Texas, that specialized in retailing brand name apparel, accessories, cosmetics, footwear, and housewares. Brands exclusively foun ...

as its

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s. At the time it was built, its location was unusual as it was one of only a few malls in the Houston area not near a

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. Joske's was rebranded as

Dillard's Dillard's, Inc. is an American department store chain with approximately 267 stores in 29 states and headquartered in Little Rock, Arkansas. Currently, the largest number of stores are located in Texas with 57 and Florida with 42. The company a ...

in 1987 following the purchase of the Joske's chain.

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was added as the fourth anchor in 1997 in an effort to increase traffic; and allow the mall to be seen as a larger regional mall. All four Anchor Stores

Macy's Macy's is an American department store chain founded in 1858 by Rowland Hussey Macy. The first store was located in Manhattan on Sixth Avenue between 13th and 14th Streets, south of the present-day flagship store at Herald Square on West 34 ...

, and Palais Royal (department store) currently sit vacant. A little more than a year after opening, mall developer Federated Department Stores Realty sold the mall, and three others, to mall manager JMB Realty Corporation for $112 million. In 2002, the mall was purchased from American General by a local developer. Foley's converted to

in 2006, the same year Dillard's closed. Macy's closed on March 27, 2017. In 2015 the mall was purchased by Guardian Equity, which planned to remodel the common spaces. In 2016 it was renamed Plaza Paseo Mall. In mid-2018, its name was again changed to Macroplaza Mall, to allude to it being a gathering place like the plaza of the same name to the south in

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, and to emphasize a new focus on the area's Mexican American community. Palais Royal closed in 2020 when its parent company Stage Stores filed for bankruptcy. On November 9, 2020, it was announced that Sears would close on January 24, 2021, as part of a plan to close seven Sears stores nationwide, leaving the mall with no anchor stores. It was revealed afterward the store would be converted and reopened as the smaller-format Sears Hometown store, but closed in May 2022. The Mall's official social media pages are not active as of 2023.

Former anchors

(Opened as

in 1962, converted to Macy's in 2006, closed in 2017) *

(Opened as Joske's in 1982, converted to Dillard's in 1987, closed in 2006) * Palais Royal (Opened in 1982, closed in 2020) *

(Opened in 1997, closed in 2021. Reopened, and closed, in 2022 as a Sears Hometown store)

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External links

* {{Houston Shopping Pasadena, Texas Shopping malls in Greater Houston Shopping malls established in 1982 1982 establishments in Texas