NorthPark Center

NorthPark Center is a large enclosed upscale shopping mall located in Dallas, Texas (United States). The mall is located at the intersection of Loop 12 (Northwest Highway) and US 75 (North Central Expressway). The center has over 235 stores and restaurants. NorthPark is the first shopping center featured on Vogue Magazine. It has annual sales of more than $1 billion. NorthPark Center is ranked at number nineteen for one of the largest malls in the United States, based on esri.com.

History

In the early 1960s, developer Raymond Nasher leased a 97-acre (390,000 m²) cotton field on the edge of Dallas and hired E.G Hamilton of Harrell+Hamilton Architects. NorthPark Center opened in 1965, as then the largest climate-controlled retail establishment in the world, and is now owned by the Caruth family and managed, operated and leased by husband and wife David J. Haemisegger and Nancy A. Nasher (Ray's daughter). In 2006, NorthPark opened its doors to an expansion that more than doubled the size of the existing center, adding an 88,000 sq ft Barneys New York store as a new anchor. (Barneys turned out to be one of the Center's few failures in recent history; it closed its doors in 2012.) For its expansion, NorthPark brought back the same architecture firm that designed the original section to ensure its aesthetic was respected and enhanced. The expansion also included a new collection of specialty retail shops and a third-floor 16-screen AMC theater. The new two-story expansion finally provided for easy circulation around the Center, by forming a continuous loop through the entire complex.