Shopping is one of those things people have fallen in love with. Before online shopping became so popular, people went to places called malls. Now, malls are doing their best to hold on, but more and more stores are going out of business, fewer and fewer stores are moving in, and fewer people go shopping at a mall.
One of the coolest places to go when it came to shopping malls was an outlet mall because it had all your favorite stores, and it had all those products at a discounted price. You felt you were getting such a great deal when you walked into someplace like Neiman Marcus and got the latest, coolest fashion at half off. Amarillo was one of those places that never had an outlet mall. However, I believe that Amarillo nearly got an outlet mall in the mid-2000s.
Although the developers never said that it was going to be an outlet mall, the description screamed outlet mall.
What Was The Shoppes at Southpointe Supposed to Be?
According to an article on Security Infowatch, an open-air mall called The Shoppes at Southpointe was supposed to open in Amarillo in 2007. The developer, Trotman Co., Inc., had over 100 acres of land at the corner of I-27 and Loop 335 under contract…