Collin Creek Mall (Dec. '24)

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DragonflyFront9882@reddit

So sad, it use to be a beautiful mall.

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I cried when the Sanger Harris mosaic tiles were torn down. Those should have been ccarefully removed in sheets with the tiles on it. They could have used those in the new Development as a display of art or in another store or restaurant that had yet to be finished. 🤷🏻‍♀️🤔😟

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Delicious_Hand527@reddit

beautiful mall? What? It was built in a hole, it has bad access to everything around it, the parking lot was barely graded, they covered a stream for overflow parking, and the inside was mall-basic. It was a junk mall, it was just successful because it was the only mall in the area. As soon as it had the tiniest bit of competition, it folded like a cheap suit.

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External-Complaint-1@reddit

It was busy for over 30 years until Amazon killed retail.

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Initial_Noise_6687@reddit

I'm only familiar with how it was in the 2010s mostly, and yeah mostly not very impressive. But from what I've heard it was a lot better in the 1980s and 1990s, and possibly much of/most of the 2000s as well. No idea really though since I either wasn't alive or was too young to really know what it was like.

Anyway do you know what it was like say pre 2010? Apparently it was way better, or atleast it was way better pre 2000. Seems unfair to judge it based on its dying last decade or w/e

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CPLCraft@reddit

Mall’s are dying unfortunately.

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AllanJH@reddit

They're starting to come back since Covid. Grapevine Mills and Stonebriar are packed every weekend.

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exwijw@reddit

I think one of the reasons Stonebriar is thriving is probably the hotel in the middle. All those corporate HQs nearby with visitors. Give business travelers something to do at night. Instead of a few choices at the hotel gift shop for a book or magazine, you’ve got a whole Barnes and Noble. Movies at the AMC. A food court. And all of the restaurants and bars orbiting the mall. Or just plain shopping.

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Ciera-Rae1969@reddit

Farewell to Colin Creek Mall. 😢 I spent my childhood weekends there shopping with my 2 best friends. This was our regular weekend hangout on when we were in Middle School. I got to tour the mall in 2016 and 2017 with a few friends and we met up with other mall regulars of the 1980s and 1990s.l mall rat group, as we were affectionately called as regulars back in the 1980s and 1990s. It was sad seeing all the stores emptied and closed. No more food court. It was a jumbled mess of deconstruction with gates around it. No escalators and no elevator running. We toured both floors as a few staircases were open. The pics are on my now ddeceased 📱. It won't turn on so I can't get the pics from it. 🤷🏻‍♀️😟

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scrappersmack@reddit

Who remembers Amazing Jakes?

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External-Complaint-1@reddit

Who remembers Tilt, the arcade in the mall. That was the place me and my friends gathered. Food Court, Babbages for games, Borders for books, Judy's for bitchen 80's fashion, knife store where I bought my nun chucks, good times...

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mbrace256@reddit

I remember when it was Sears, I think 😂

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External-Complaint-1@reddit

Good times were had there in the 80's too.

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OptimistPrimeBarista@reddit

I lived out my mall rat emo/scene phase here. Rip

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mbrace256@reddit

Gadzooooooks, that was the shit.

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TxBuckster@reddit

Rip. First valley view mall …

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Thesinistral@reddit

First I remember on the Dallas side of DFW: Big Town, then Richardson Square Mall. Then Prestonwood, then Valleyview, Then Collin Creek… not sure about Red Bird but Vista Ridge ( Music City??) was dead 20 years ago. Assume it won’t be long.

Town East thriving is some weird miracle.

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Express-Way9295@reddit

CCM was 100 times better than RSM. We were so glad when CCM opened, but Dino's Pizza at RSM was better than Sbarro at CCM.

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mbrace256@reddit

I really loved Richardson Square and the fact that the area has been kept alive has been awesome. It was so small that my parents let me go by myself all the time!

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SimpleVegetable5715@reddit

I remember going to Olla Podrida before it closed too. Richardson Square Mall died such a slow death, that Sears kept hanging on.

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Hourslikeminutes47@reddit

Town East Mall is the closest mall to many people in south east Dallas (and parts of East Texas)

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arcanition@reddit

Maybe it's just me, but it's kind of sad that it's 2025 in a couple days and the mall is still there un-demolished years later. It's been 6 years since it closed.

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madster40@reddit

Blazing fast progress compared to Valley View Mall. 😉

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mbrace256@reddit

Just saw an update there - https://www.dmagazine.com/frontburner/2025/03/fingers-crossed-former-valley-view-mall-may-finally-see-development/

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FabledF0E@reddit

FYI the remaining structure is being repurposed as a market - part of the original plan.

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arcanition@reddit

That would be cool.

Hopefully I get to see it completed in my lifetime!

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DramaticMention7597@reddit

If someone was smart and risk adverse, yeah I know. This would be a cool place to shoot a low budget film. Thoughts?

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mbrace256@reddit

If I had some money, it’d make a hell of a horror flick.

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Boringdollar@reddit

Wow, great photos. I'm shocked this much still exists, I thought it would have been demolished by now.

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arlenroy@reddit

Last I read, whatever anchor store they had was staying, Macy's? Apparently, they own the land the building was on and a significant amount of the parking lot, but that was years ago. I know part of the hold up was the mosaics the mall had, I remember there was one on the south of the building, the adhesive used had asbestos as a curing agent. They wanted to save the mosaics and reinstall them, but after those tests came back they were destroyed. Then they had to retest other stuff, if that had asbestos then what else had it? But again that was awhile back I read that.

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mbrace256@reddit

I don't think so, even the JCP is gone, I thought.

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zatchstar@reddit

They are only keeping this main lobby of the mall. The anchor stores are all gone and are converting to either residential lots or parking garage or parks.

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PhysicsDeep8164@reddit

I thought all parking was underground?

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exwijw@reddit

A few months ago, I walked over there and there were some fenced in places and not fenced in places. I didn’t walk down but I did see ramps going down to underground spaces that seemed like parking lots.

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SpeedRevolutionary29@reddit

A lot of high school memories spent here shopping and messing around with friends.

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PabloEscoGnar@reddit

Man this is crazy my first job was here and I basically lived in this mall growing up, sad to see it gutted like this

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idiotsbydesign@reddit

Wow. Spent alot of my youth walking that mall. Hard to see it like that although it was inevitable.

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gingerninjaglass@reddit

Gadzooks!

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TXVette121@reddit

Those apartments they're building aren't going to age well

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TEXAS_1845@reddit

For decades, Collin Creek Mall was The premiere mall just under the Gallaria.

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Delicious_Hand527@reddit

'for decades'. It opened in 1981 and basically closed in 2010. Stonebriar's heyday is currently only about 5 years shorter, opening in 2000 or so.

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Thesinistral@reddit

It was basically StoneBriar.

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Dmc031@reddit

Is that mall built or are they breaking it down ?

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Anonymyne353@reddit

RIP. Probably should’ve gone there when I was last in the area…

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mollyyfcooke@reddit

I can’t believe they are trying to charge $500k+ for those townhomes they put in there lol

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exwijw@reddit

I’m sure it’s an optical illusion, but I drove by and one looked crooked. For those prices, I sure hope I’m wrong.

My guess is they finished those first to start the revenue coming in. But who wants to pay those prices to live on a construct site? Not even knowing whether the end product will be a cool place to live or not.

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zeroonetw@reddit

I get the sticker shock… but how much should a new townhome cost and do they exist anywhere near there? Plano isn’t the edge of the Metroplex anymore.

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No-Celebration3097@reddit

You should look at the floor plans and what they look like, they look like cheap apts. Cookie cutter, almost like dorms.

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Dwman113@reddit

The real question is, why has this thing been sitting there for like 7 years now?

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SirWillingham@reddit

Part of the project was to upgrade the drainage aka Collin creek under mall. If I remember correctly that has been completed.

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rumdrums@reddit

Collin creek literally ran under the mall. I bet it was a chore to deal with all the associated infrastructure.

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exwijw@reddit

Did it? Under the parking lot maybe. But not under the mall.

There were 3 huge parallel tunnels that looked big enough to drive a semi through. The creek flowed through those.

The tunnels went from behind the La Madeleine/behind Planet Fitness, were about 1/2 mile long, and exited near the stand-alone Jared on Plano Parkway.

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Gangstasheriff@reddit

Absolutely, they need to upload the drainage and bounce that down to the basement. I lost my virginity here!!

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LadyNyneave@reddit

I believe they recently upgraded the drainage south of Plano Pkwy.

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PhysicsDeep8164@reddit

They have been digging out the underground parking garage I believe. (Plus delays)

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On_Food@reddit

That's what I'm saying. It's looked like that for longer than I was able to hang out and shop there as a teenager.

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jake72469@reddit

The mall closed in 2019. The plan is $1 billion dollar investment to create a pedestrian-friendly mixed-use area which includes shops, housing, parks, etc. There have been some delays. COVID was just one of them.

https://www.collincreek.com/the-plan

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DT-Rex@reddit

They're making a SoDoSoPa.

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TexasCoconut@reddit

Missing Historic Kenny's House

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missdrywit@reddit

But where is the Whole Foods?

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GertBertisreal@reddit

It's just down the road from

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DT-Rex@reddit

The SoDaSoPa is to attract the whole foods, they want one there.

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CPLCraft@reddit

On the South East side of the highway interchange.

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Thewiserunner@reddit (OP)

I've been watching and waiting to see if they end up connecting Chilsom Trail to the Renner Trail and build up the 6 cities trail plan as promised too

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thisquietreverie@reddit

I think I got an email from the city about them doing some work on connecting the Chisholm trail to Starlight and whatever else the other park is going to be named.

There is also supposed to be an eventual connection to the new park at Alma and Park but I don’t know the conditions for the city to begin.

Like if the Haggard folk can live there till they die or what have you. Will miss the animals.

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No-Celebration3097@reddit

I live across from here and it’s going to create a traffic nightmare, as Plano is already busting at the seams. The rush hour traffic is catching up to being just as bad as Dallas. Plano is no longer a suburb, it’s part of the PAF metroplex, Plano Allen Frisco.

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heinzenfeinzen@reddit

With any luck for you, no one will want to buy those overpriced, jammed together 3 story homes. There are something like 500 homes and then 2000 apartments going in that small space! Before the crowd starts complaining about how Plano needs more affordable housing, these are NOT affordable housing. Townhomes starting at $500K for 1800 sq ft.

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zeroonetw@reddit

I don’t think you’ve looked at housing prices lately… especially when you consider the housing stock surrounding that area is due for a maintenance/renovation cycle.

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heinzenfeinzen@reddit

Actually I have because I am considering selling my house. Those townhomes are minimum $250 per sq ft (many are $275) -- that's well above the average for Plano most of which are true single family homes (not townhouses) with yards and even pools.

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zeroonetw@reddit

Ok. How much are you selling your house for and how much more would it take to make it modern?

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heinzenfeinzen@reddit

My specific case does not really matter -- the point of mentioning my house was that I am indeed familiar with housing prices lately. Plano real estate is currently at about $225 per sq ft WITH a yard and WITHOUT sharing walls with neighbors.

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zeroonetw@reddit

And Plano’s housing stock is 30+ years old and due for a major renovation cycle. Add in $50-$100 SQF and the fact you won’t get a subsidized interest rate and the choice becomes clear. Also you obviously gloss over the fact that smaller units usually run higher $/sqf than larger houses and that they are new. I suggest you find a good realtor.

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shelfcompact@reddit

There’s already people moved in. Can see the lights and TV on as I drive by. Crazy.

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heinzenfeinzen@reddit

crazy is right! Who would want to spend that much $ on so little square feet and all jammed together?? How much you want to bet you can hear your neighbor's TV through the walls of those townhouses?

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LadyNyneave@reddit

And it's a bit of a food desert too. All grocery stores are over a mile away.

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imajoker1213@reddit

A mile away? 😂 Thats not far!

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LadyNyneave@reddit

No, it's not but the closest grocery store to Collin Creek is Green Vine on the other side of 75.

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ArcanistKvothe24@reddit

Especially near downtown plano

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tonyr35@reddit

Green vine market by downtown Plano is awesome

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ArcanistKvothe24@reddit

Really? It seemed dingy from the outside

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thisquietreverie@reddit

Hi neighbor!

I was kind of annoyed about a new traffic light on Janwood but I realized it’s gonna be great to have a protected turn on my bike and a couple of new parks so I’m staying positive.

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shelfcompact@reddit

I’m looking forward to that light too haha.

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No-Celebration3097@reddit

They need to put a light at Meadowcrest, hoping they do

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thisquietreverie@reddit

Right on, they extended Meadowcrest across Alma into the mall area, even. I almost never go out that way so I was sitting here realizing I don’t know the state of anything on that side.

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zatchstar@reddit

It will be about as busy as it was when it was a mall in its prime. There is just more stuff around now

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flilmawinstone@reddit

Not really … the mall was not busy every day during rush hour with traffic in / out

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zatchstar@reddit

And this won’t be either. The residential portions are all spread out with a lot of driveway options and that new light that is going up on Alma. and they are all close to US75 so it won’t really clog up the other roads.

The commercial stuff here is going to be just as busy as any other commercial area during rush hour.

Making this lot into this mixed use is a lot better than any other alternative for this lot. It’s not a big corporate campus like city line which would have been totally viable for a corner of PGBT and 75, and its not just dead ugly land anymore and will actually contribute to the city.

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Confusedsoul2292@reddit

Just can’t get away 😭

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biggoof@reddit

I have some great childhood memories here with my mom from 1990-91. Nothing lasts forever, and hopefully, there will be new memories of what it'll become.

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