Part of the Galleria's problem is also its proximity to NorthPark. There's a significant overlap between their trade areas.Proquest20 wrote:In general, shopping centers need to evolve. The Galleria is surrounded by plenty of business parks and major hotels, has its own office towers, and hotel, and yet, if it retained the same look it had in the 1970s today, it definitely wouldn’t have aged as well as it did. Now obviously, it has its issues, like department stores not exactly doing well there, but it is far from a dead mall, at least when I was there this past weekend. Grapevine Mills, the most visited mall in the entire region, also underwent renovations a couple years ago so that it no longer had that “theme park” look a lot of Mills malls used to have. It also has stellar demographics, being so close to the DFW Airport, along with resort hotels and having plenty of entertainment options.
In general, I don’t see a reason as to why Stonebriar should keep up with its dated early 2000s/late 1990s look if it truly is in a different tier from Parks or Town East, which it really isn’t. It definitely brings me back to Collin Creek, but not in a good way.
I will say, Stonebriar is a lot busier than the Galleria as of late. It's pretty common to go to Stonebriar and everyone's packed in like sardines with hardly any parking available. Stonebriar. Same goes for NorthPark in fact. That's not as much the case when I go to the Galleria on the weekends.