Town & Country Mall

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Town & Country Mall, was a shopping mall in Houston, Texas.

Construction started in the spring of 1981, in a large open area behind the Town & Country Six and Loew's Three movie theaters. At the time, only a Joske's department store existed on the property, bounded by West Belt (now the access road to Beltway 8) to the west, Queensbury Lane to the south, Town and Country Lane to the East, and Town and Country Way to the northeast.

Opened in 1983 on Houston's affluent west side, it was originally anchored by Joske's, Marshall Field's, JCPenney and Neiman Marcus. The Joske's became a Dillard's in 1987, and Marshall Field's sold their store to Saks Fifth Avenue in 1997. Saks closed in 2000, JCPenney shortly thereafter and Dillard's decamped for a new store at nearby Memorial City Mall in 2003. The mall, except for Neiman Marcus, closed in 2003 and was demolished in 2004. The Neiman Marcus closed in 2005, and demolished in 2006.

The mall never generated the foot traffic of Memorial City Mall, located one mile east. Although two decades newer, and built on three levels, and containing four anchor stores, Town and Country mall remained the "other mall" in the area. In addition, the mall opened during a time when Houston was in the midst of an economic slowdown. When the Harris County Toll Road Authority built the Sam Houston Tollway, no nearby exits for Town and Country Mall were created. From the south, one would have to take the Memorial Drive exit, and from the north, a consumer would have to exit at Hammerly Road (the Westview exit was built in 2003). Signage for Town and Country Mall did not appear on either the Sam Houston Tollway or Katy Freeway (Interstate 10) until 2001.

As of September 2006, nothing currently remains of the mall but the parking garages.

List of defunct shopping malls