Westwood Mall (Houston)
The Sears at Westwood Mall, which is still open for business
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| Location | Houston, Texas, United States |
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| Coordinates | 29°40′39″N 95°32′43″W / 29.6775°N 95.5452°WCoordinates: 29°40′39″N 95°32′43″W / 29.6775°N 95.5452°W |
| Address | 9700 Bissonnet Street |
| Opening date | 1975 |
| Closing date | June 1, 1998 |
| Owner | YoungWoo & Associates |
| No. of anchor tenants | 2 |
| No. of floors | 2 |
| Public transit access | METRO Routes 65 & 68 |
Westwood Mall was a shopping mall located in the Westwood business development in Houston, Texas. The mall was located at the intersection of Interstate 69/U.S. Route 59 and Bissonnet Street, in the Westwood portion of the Alief area in southwest Houston.
Westwood Mall has its roots in the opening of a branch of Sears in 1972 – three years before the mall opened. The mall itself opened in 1975 with a two story floorplan, anchored by Joske's on the west end and Sears on the east end, with the freeway frontage, and featured 60 stores and a food court, with its most notable architectural feature being an unconventional main entrance on the Bissonnet Street side of the mall; this entrance housed an elevator and a bank of escalators and stairs leading from the first floor foyer to the second floor of the mall. Conversely, the mall's rear entrance led into the first floor food court, which was blocked by the main entrance.
At the time that it was built, it was located in the Alief area of unincorporated Harris County; the area was annexed by Houston shortly thereafter. From the beginning, it always had difficulty competing with nearby and more established Sharpstown Mall, but manage to survive due to a number of factors:
The mall received exposure when scenes in the 1983 television movie Adam, portrayed to be at the Hollywood Mall in Hollywood, Florida, were filmed inside Westwood Mall, primarily at and around the Sears store. In 1987, Joske's was converted to Dillard's, as a byproduct of Campeau Corporation's takeover of parent company Allied Stores who sold Joske's to the latter. The following year, in 1988, the mall completed a renovation that added skylights and improved the mall's overall image, culminating in an advertising campaign during this time. At one point in the early 1990s, Westwood considered recruiting Foley's as a third anchor, a move that would have resulted in Foley's closing its Sharpstown Mall location.
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