NorthPark Center
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| Location | Dallas in Dallas County, TX,  United States |
| Opening date | 1965 |
| Developer | NorthPark Development Company |
| Management | NorthPark Management Company |
| Owner | NorthPark Development Company / The Macerich Company |
| No. of stores and services | 235 |
| No. of anchor tenants | 6 |
| Total retail floor area | 2,000,000 sq ft (185,800 m²)[1] |
| No. of floors | 2 |
NorthPark Center is an upscale shopping mall located in Dallas, Texas (USA) with over 235 stores and anchors. The mall is located at the intersection of Loop 12 (Northwest Highway) and US 75 (North Central Expressway).
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[edit] History
NorthPark Center opened in 1965. Originally developed by Raymond D. Nasher, the center is now owned, managed, operated and leased by husband and wife David J. Haemisegger and Nancy A. Nasher (Ray's daughter). After a three-year, $235 million expansion that doubled its size, NorthPark Center is expected to surpass $1 billion in sales in 2007.[citation needed]
[edit] Art in the mall
From its inception, NorthPark Center has made world-class art an integral part of its interior landscape. NorthPark received the American Institute of Architects Award for "Design of the Decade - 1960s" as one of the first commercial centers in the United States to create space for the display of fine art. NorthPark was honored again in 1992 with the A.I.A.'s 25-Year Award for Design Excellence. NorthPark’s tradition of showcasing major works by world-renowned artists from Andy Warhol and Frank Stella to Jonathan Borofsky and Jim Dine continues with three recent acquisitions by NorthPark’s owners, David J. Haemisegger and Nancy A. Nasher: the monumental Ad Astra, 2005, a 48-foot-tall, 12-ton, orange steel giant sculpture by internationally renowned New York artist Mark di Suvero; the enormous, 21-foot-tall, large-scale, stainless steel and aluminum sculpture Corridor Pin, Blue (1999), by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen; and 20 elements (2005), Joel Shapiro’s vividly painted sculpture of 20 wooden blocks of varying sizes joined together.
[edit] Architecture
Over the years as NorthPark Center has remained true to its original design. For the most recent expansion, NorthPark’s owners returned to Omniplan (Omniplan), the architectural firm that originally designed the center with clean, modern lines, signature white brick and highly polished concrete floors. The expansion turned NorthPark’s original U-shape into a unique square design surrounding a 1.4-acre landscaped garden known as "CenterPark". Featuring a series of lawns, 41-year-old live oaks and red oaks, and the art for which NorthPark has become famous, CenterPark doubles as a peaceful area for all to enjoy and an exciting new venue for private and community events. This is the only shopping center in the country built around a landscaped garden. For more than 40 years, NorthPark Center has maintained its popularity as a comprehensive asset to its community and has not suffered the dead mall fate of others its age. It is the largest mall in North Texas.
[edit] Anchors and stores
With over 25 million visitors annually, NorthPark Center has consistently been named the top attraction in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex by the Dallas Business Journal, keeping NorthPark’s anchors at the top of their respective brands in sales volume.
[edit] Anchors
- AMC Theatres 15 (88,500 sq. ft.)
- Barneys New York (88,000 sq. ft.)
- Dillard's - Flagship store (299,500 sq. ft.)
- Macy's - Macy's North Texas flagship store, in former Foley's space (250,000 sq. ft.)
- Neiman Marcus (213,800 sq. ft.)
- Nordstrom (203,000 sq. ft.)
[edit] High-end stores
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[edit] Library
Bringing a special, kid-friendly element to a Dallas landmark, the Dallas Public Library arrives at NorthPark Center via Bookmarks a Dallas public library. Bookmarks is be the first children’s library in the United States located in a shopping center. This makes it easier for patrons to drop off or pick up requested items.
[edit] Fashion at the Park
Similar to New York's Fashion Week, NorthPark Center’s signature event—Fashion at The Park—offers the public an exclusive experience usually reserved for celebrities and fashion-insiders — an unprecedented opportunity to view the newest fashion and hottest trends on the runway first. A public fashion event of this magnitude further establishes NorthPark Center as the fashion epicenter of the Southwest.
Fashion At The Park brings the energy of the international fashion scene from New York City, Milan, and Paris to Dallas and showcases the incredible collection of exclusive luxury and trend-setting retailers such as Oscar de la Renta, Carolina Herrera, Barneys New York, Valentino, Giorgio Armani, Intermix, Neiman Marcus, Diesel, Custo Barcelona, and many more.
[edit] Television and film location
NorthPark's interior has been frequently used for television and film.
Dr. T and the Women, the Robert Altman film, has one scene in which the character Kate (Farrah Fawcett) visits stores in the area of the Neiman Marcus court, then is seen around the Dillard's court fountain--which she eventually finds herself in, frolicking and splashing in the buff.[2]
True Stories, a 1986 movie co-starring David Byrne, with one scene of a fashion show held at a mall in Virgil, Texas (the movie's fictional setting) during a town celebration; the interior portion of the scene was filmed in a mid-court area between Neiman Marcus and Dillard's. When the mall was reopened in 2006, The Dallas Observer used the mall's ambiance as documented in the film as a source of comparison. "The place looks like a tricked-out spaceship compared to the stark, cold NorthPark in which True Stories was filmed exactly 20 years ago. It looks like the old NorthPark--damned if you can tell difference between the old bricks and the new ones; this thing looks like it was built in a time machine--yet it's brighter too, a friendlier version of the same ol' place." [3]Amusingly, the exterior of Virgil's mall wasn't of NorthPark -- the producers used the outside of the former Big Town Mall in nearby Mesquite. [4]
In the mid-to-late 1960s, the mall played host to Sump 'n Else, a live afternoon teen dance program hosted by Ron Chapman that aired on local station WFAA-TV (Channel 8, ABC). Musical guests included Frank Zappa and Jefferson Airplane.[citation needed]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ International Council of Shopping Centers NorthPark Center. Retrieved May 27, 2008.
- ^ The Mall Coming To A Theater Near You
- ^ Unfair Park - The Mall: It's a Good Thing
- ^ Review: True Stories directed by David Byrne
