CityCentre

This article is about the Houston property development. For the Las Vegas development, see CityCenter. For other uses, see City Center (disambiguation).
CityCentre
BB&T-branded building at the northern entrance to CityCentre along Town and Country Way in 2010
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LocationHouston, Texas, United States
Coordinates29°46′50″N 95°33′38″W / 29.780470°N 95.560423°W / 29.780470; -95.560423
Address800 Town & Country Boulevard
Opening date2009 (15 years ago) (2009)
DeveloperMidway Companies [1]
Total retail floor area400,000 sq ft (37,000 m2)
Public transit accessMETRO Route 39
Websitecitycentrehouston.com

CityCentre is a mixed-use development in the Memorial City district of Houston, Texas, located at the southeastern corner of the intersection of Interstate 10 (Katy Freeway) and Beltway 8. Opened in 2009, CityCentre is a 50-acre (20-hectare) development with 2.1 million square feet (200,000 m2) of gross floor space,[2] including 400,000 square feet (37,000 m2) of retail, restaurants and entertainment, a 149,000-square-foot (13,800 m2) fitness facility, 425,000 square feet (39,500 m2) of office space, and a variety of rental and non-rental residential developments.[3][4] CityCentre has been recognized by the Urban Land Institute as a successful example of walkable, high-density development and progressive site planning in the United States.[5]

CityCentre is located on the former site of Town & Country Mall, a 1-million-square-foot (93,000 m2) shopping center which competed with neighboring Memorial City Mall from 1983 to 2004.[6] Poor accessibility to the site due to the construction of the Sam Houston Tollway, as well as a local recession in the late 1980s, resulted in the gradual decline of Town & Country into a dead mall.[6] In 2004, the site was bought out by Midway Companies and closed to develop CityCentre.[6] CityCentre is immediately north of Town & Country Village, an open-air shopping center which retains the 1960s-era Town & Country moniker.

  1. ^ [1] Archived January 11, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ Cultivating Development: Trends and Opportunities at the Intersection of Food and Real Estate (PDF) (Report). Urban Land Institute. 2016. pp. 30–31. ISBN 978-0-87420-394-3.
  3. ^ "CityCentre Houston". CityCentre Houston. Retrieved 2012-05-26.
  4. ^ CityCentre information at Midway Companies Archived February 16, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ "CityCentre – ULI Case Studies". Urban Land Institute. January 2015. Retrieved June 2, 2018.
  6. ^ a b c Sarnoff, Nancy (June 3, 2004). "Mall finally bows out - As long era of decline takes its toll, 1-million-square-foot center is sold to be demolished for redevelopment". Houston Chronicle. Business, page 1 – via NewsBank.