Demolition at Greenspoint Mall in Houston, Texas, is expected to start in October 2026.
The mall closed in the summer of 2024, but it had been losing ground since the 1990s. Crime gave it a nickname Houston still brings up.
Newer malls took its shoppers, its department stores left one by one, the building leaked, and the land under it was split among six owners, so attempt after attempt to redevelop it stalled…