Malls · Texas

Prestonwood Mall

From the authors' mapRedevelopedRetrofit builtDallas, TX

Opened 1979. Closed 2004. Redeveloped in 2006. Owner of record Individual (Name Withheld).

Status nowRetrofit builtderived from authors' map (retrofit year present) reported

What it becameretailextracted, unreviewed reported

Owner of recordIndividual (Name Withheld)county assessor, 2026-10-15 reported

Site size462,277 sq ft GLAEsri 2014 layer reported

Retrofit year2006authors' map reported

Walkability18 of 20 · 15-minute 6 of 6EPA, OpenStreetMap

Rail within 800 mNoOpenStreetMap, HUD

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Site profile14 elements · what this retrofit is built with · tap a chip for the evidence

Former anchors

JCPenney

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Lord & Taylor

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Montgomery Ward

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Place

100k+ jobs within 45 min by transit

This site: 368,013 epa-walkability · all sites with this

15-minute neighbourhood (5+ of 6 daily needs within 800 m)

This site: 6/6 openstreetmap · all sites with this

County permitting 2,000+ apartment units a year

This site: 6,824 units, Dallas County census-bps · all sites with this

Grocery within 800 m

This site: 4 stores openstreetmap · all sites with this

High heat wave risk

This site: Very High fema-nri · all sites with this

Renter-majority tract

This site: 82% census-acs · all sites with this

Tract population up 25%+ since 2013

This site: +57% census-acs · all sites with this

Walkable block group (EPA ≥ 12)

This site: …index 18 epa-walkability · all sites with this

Strategy

Redeveloped

This site: Redevelopment: retail and residential record · all sites with this

New use

Housing

This site: Redevelopment: retail and residential extraction · all sites with this

Retail (continued)

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From the authors' map

TX, Dallas: Prestonwood Mall/Prestonwood Town Center, 2006
• Redevelopment: retail and residential

Now

Status	Retrofit builtderived from authors' map (retrofit year present) reported
Strategy	Redevelopedauthors' map reported
New uses	retailextracted, unreviewed reported
What is there now	Redevelopment: retail and residentialauthors' map reported
Retrofit year	2006authors' map reported
Redeveloper	Archon Groupextracted, unreviewed reported
Owner of record	Individual (Name Withheld)county assessor reported

Parcels, tax and title

Parcels within 40 m of the site point, as published by the county (layer); county terms apply; unverified here. Mortgages, liens and deeds are recorder records, not assessor data: Dallas County Clerk, real property records.

Parcel

Owner of record

Acres

Use · zoning

Value (appraised · assessed · taxable)

Last sale · deed

all 30 county fields

LOWPARCELID	008222000B07J0000
PARCELID	008222000B07J0000
SCHLTXCD	2
SCHLDSCRP	DALLAS ISD
USECD	2
USEDSCRP	Commercial
NGHBRHDCD	N/A
CLASSCD	17
CLASSDSCRP	COMMERCIAL IMPROVEMENTS
SITEADDRESS	5301 BELTLINE RD
PRPRTYDSCRP	BLK B/8222 LT 7J ACS 21.095
CNVYNAME	PRESTONWOOD TOWN CENTER 9
OWNERNME1	INLAND AMERICAN DALLAS PRESTONWOOD
PSTLADDRESS	917 W WASHINGTON BLVD PMB 282
PSTLCITY	CHICAGO
PSTLSTATE	IL
PSTLZIP5	60607
PSTLZIP4	2203
LNDVALUE	13783470.0
PRVASSDVAL	37324000.0
CNTASSDVAL	46189000.0
LASTUPDATE	1777581168000
MAPGRID	15-A (DALLAS)
REVALYR	2026
PRVRVALYR	2025
IMPVALUE	32405530.0

Individual (Name Withheld)

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Commercial

— (appraised)
assessed $46.2M

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Total

$46.2M

Site context

Transit within 800 m	no rail station; 4 bus stops within 400 mOpenStreetMap
Motorway junctions within 2 km	junctionOpenStreetMap
FEMA flood zone	X · AREA OF MINIMAL FLOOD HAZARDFEMA NFHL
EPA-regulated facilities within 500 m	6: ADDISON, TOWN OF; OKLAHOMA INSTALLATION CO; PRECISION BIOMEMS; TOWN HALL CLEANERS; WAL-MART SUPERCENTER 3406EPA FRS
Census tract 48113013620	6,736 people, 10,066 per sq mi; median household income $84,672; median gross rent $1,757; 82% renters; 13.5% vacant units; 0.4% commute by transitACS 2023 5-year
Walkability (EPA, block group)	index 18 of 20; 172 intersections per sq mi; nearest transit stop 363 m; land-use mix 0.92; 455,486 jobs within 45 min by car, 368,013 by transit; 5% of households without a carEPA Smart Location
Within a 10–15 minute walk (800 m)	6 of 6 daily needs: 4 grocers, 1 schools, 11 parks or playgrounds, 8 health, 1 civic, 79 food and drink; 7 cycleway segments, 231 sidewalk-tagged segmentsOpenStreetMap
Opportunity Zone	noHUD
Housing permits, Dallas County (TX), 2024	6,824 units in 5+ unit buildings, 232 in 2–4, 5,655 single-family; 2023: 7,855 in 5+Census BPS
Social vulnerability (CDC SVI 2022, tract)	overall percentile 0.33; socioeconomic 0.38; housing and transport 0.49; 14% below 150% of poverty; 12% of households with no vehicleCDC/ATSDR
Other atlas sites nearby	2 within 10 km, 10 within 25 km: Valley View Center (3.1 km); The Shops at Willow Bend (8.4 km)computed
Overture Maps	no place match; building footprint 3,161 m², 6.068334579467773 mOverture (CDLA-Permissive 2.0)
Attention: Wikipedia page views	53,056 since 2015; 4,723 in the last 12 months (-1% vs the prior 12); peak 2024-01 with 663Wikimedia
Tract change 2013–2023	population +57% (4,280 → 6,736); median income +53% ($55,286 → $84,672); renters 81% → 82%; median home value +82% ($113,500 → $206,500)Census ACS 5-year
Natural hazard risk (FEMA National Risk Index, tract)	relatively moderate overall (score 66.0); expected annual loss $2.4M; high: heat wave, hail, cold wave; community resilience very lowFEMA NRI
Tax-credit housing within 1 km	noneHUD LIHTC
Retail trade in the county, 2025 (BLS QCEW)	144,905 jobs in 8,234 establishments; average annual pay $51,455; employment location quotient 0.80; employment -1.9% on the yearBLS QCEW 2025, NAICS 44-45, private
Jobs located in the tract, 2022	8,363 jobs; 2,551 in retail trade, 981 in accommodation and food (workplace blocks summed to tract 48113013620)Census LEHD LODES8 WAC 2022
Upward mobility (Opportunity Atlas, 2010 tract)	children of low-income (25th percentile) families reached the 45th income percentile as adults; -0.3% incarcerated at the 2010 count (133 children in the sample); born 1978–83, measured 2014–15Opportunity Insights
Food access (USDA FARA 2019, 2010 tract)	not a low-access tract at 1 mile; poverty rate 4.5%; median family income $61,545; 78 SNAP householdsUSDA ERS
Schools	Dallas Independent School District (PK-12); 1 public school within 1 mile: ANNE FRANK ELNCES EDGE
Elevation	605 ft above sea level at the site pointUSGS 3DEP
Storm events in the county, 2016-2025	481 county-logged events: 196 hail, 140 thunderstorm wind, 113 flash flood, 12 lightning; $3,336,586,500 property damage reported; 8 direct deaths; forecast-zone events (most flood, winter and heat) not countedNOAA Storm Events
Homes for sale in ZIP 75248, 2026-09	median list price $650,625 (+3.7% on the year); 170 active listings; median 65 days on market; 28% with a price cutRealtor.com Research
Retail trade in the county, 2012 to 2023	7,783 establishments (+3%); 136,741 jobs (+20%)Census CBP
Housing market in the county	typical home value $304,821 (-2% 1 yr, +12% 5 yr); typical rent $1,653/mo (+1% 1 yr), 2026-09Zillow Research
Traffic on the busiest road within 600 m (2024)	20,572 vehicles a day (minor arterial, 6 lanes); 7 counted segmentsFHWA HPMS

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Elsewhere on the web

Retail history: Prestonwood Town Center on DeadMalls.com photos, field notes and visitor memories since 2000; matched by name and city; nothing copied here

Pages with photos

Prestonwood Town Center - InvenTrust Properties inventrustproperties.com
Prestonwood Mall 💔Gone But Not Forgotten youtube.com
Prestonwood Town Center - store list, hours, (location: Dall… mallsinamerica.com
Display Location: Prestonwood Mall - Urb… uer.ca
Houlihan's - Prestonwood Town Center - 48 tips foursquare.com

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Multifamily screen

retrofit already built
median rent $1,469

Inputs: record fields (size, status) and county Census ACS 2018–2023 figures (growth, rent). How the points work. Not a recommendation.

History and original facts

Now called / also known as	Prestonwood Town Center
Opened	1979Wikidata
Closed	2004extracted, unreviewed documented was demolished in 2004 en.wikipedia.org
Gross leasable area	462,277 sq ftEsri 2014 layer reported
Stores at peak	37Esri 2014 layer reported
Anchors	Circuit City, JCPenney, Wal-Mart, Office Depot, Lord & Taylor, Montgomery Ward, Neiman Marcus, Joske's
Address	NEC Belt Line Rd. & Montfort Dr.
County	Dallas
Census division	7 · West South Central

Not yet recorded: acres, original developer. Know it? Tell us.

Background

Prestonwood Town Center was a two-level enclosed shopping mall located at the northeast corner of Belt Line Road and Montfort Drive in Dallas, Texas that opened in 1979 and was demolished in 2004. The mall contained a central ice rink. Prestonwood Town Center was replaced by a 62-acre (250,000 m2) retail shopping center of the same name that opened in 2006. The new center includes Barnes & Noble, DSW, Michaels, Office Depot, Petco, Ulta Beauty, and Walmart as well as various restaurants and services.

Excerpt from Wikipedia (authors and history), CC BY-SA 4.0. May be older than the record above.

Timeline

1979 Opened (Wikidata)
1979 Opened as two-level enclosed shopping mall
1984 Montgomery Ward closed
1985 Mervyn's opened
1985 DART Transit Center opened
1987 Joske's converted to Dillard's
1997 JCPenney closed
1999 Neiman Marcus and Lord & Taylor announced relocation
2000 Archon Group purchased the mall
2003 Archon announced demolition plan
2004 Mall demolished
2006 Retrofit: redevelop

Sources

Wikipedia · supports: year closed
11 quoted sentences
was demolished in 2004
A two-level mall opened in 1979 featuring anchor stores Neiman Marcus, Lord & Taylor, JCPenney, Joske's, and Montgomery Ward.
Wards closed its location in November 1984 and was replaced by Mervyn's in April 1985.
Wards closed its location in November 1984 and was replaced by Mervyn's in April 1985.
Esri StoryMaps: Closed_US_Malls feature layer (2014) · 2014-10-02
Retrofitting Suburbia Interactive Mall Map (ArcGIS web map ce33ab26…) · 2021-01-20

Cite

Retrofit Atlas (2026). "Prestonwood Mall, Dallas, TX." Record m-dbdce98506, from the authors' map. Built on the public Retrofitting Suburbia map (Dunham-Jones and Williamson) and the sources listed. https://retrofitatlas.org/malls/tx/dallas-prestonwood-mall/ (accessed 2026-10-21).

BibTeX

@misc{retrofitatlas_dallasprestonwoodmall,
  title = {Prestonwood Mall, Dallas, TX},
  author = {{Retrofit Atlas}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://retrofitatlas.org/malls/tx/dallas-prestonwood-mall/}},
  year = {2026},
  note = {Record m-dbdce98506, release 2026-10-21, tier: curated. Built on the Retrofitting Suburbia map (Dunham-Jones and Williamson) and the sources listed on the record. Accessed 2026-10-21}
}

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