Sikes Senter is a

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. It is the only Texas mall within of Wichita Falls. It was owned and managed by

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until 2022, when it was sold to

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. The mall has no open anchor stores, following the closure of two

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 ...

locations in 2022, and

JCPenney Penney OpCo LLC , Trade name, doing business as JCPenney (colloquially Penney's and abbreviated JCP) is an American department store chain store, chain with 649 stores across 49 U.S. states and Puerto Rico. It is managed as part of the Catalys ...

and At Home in 2024.

History

Construction on Sikes Senter began in 1966 and was not completed until construction started again in 1973, with

and

as the first anchor stores. The Mall was an empty shell for many years back in the late 1960's and people wondered if it would ever be completed. The mall opened Oct. 30, 1974, with Perkins and Bealls department stores joining as anchors in 1975. The Perkins store closed in 1988 and became a second Dillard's, while

Sears Sears, Roebuck and Co., commonly known as Sears ( ), is an American chain of department stores and online retailer founded in 1892 by Richard Warren Sears and Alvah Curtis Roebuck and reincorporated in 1906 by Richard Sears and Julius Rosen ...

joined as an anchor in 1991. Additions in the 2000s included

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and

Old Navy Old Navy is an American clothing and accessories retailing company owned by multinational corporation Gap Inc. It has corporate operations in the Mission Bay, San Francisco, Mission Bay neighborhood of San Francisco, California. The largest of t ...

. Bealls closed in 2011, as did

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. Also, the Old Navy in the mall reduced its floor space by 25 percent. Despite the loss of these stores, the mall maintained occupancy higher than the national average. The former Bealls became

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Encore in 2012. Sears closed on December 20, 2015 and became At Home on April 21, 2016. On May 12, 2022, it was announced that Dillard's would be closing both locations in summer 2022. On June 6, 2024, it was announced the JCPenney would be closing in fall 2024, which will leave At Home as the only anchor left. On July 25, 2024, it was announced that At Home would be closing later in the year, which will leave the mall with no anchors, making it a

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References

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External links

Official site
Shopping malls in Texas Shopping malls established in 1974 Buildings and structures in Wichita Falls, Texas 1974 establishments in Texas Kohan Retail Investment Group