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Will GrowSouth Be Enough to Incite Economic Growth in Southern Dallas?


Will GrowSouth Be Enough to Incite Economic Growth in Southern Dallas?
In the wake of Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings’ GrowSouth initiative, there’s no doubt businesspeople are looking harder at opportunities in the city’s southern sector.
On a cold Saturday morning in January, Southwest Center Mall looked much like it has over the past decade. The shopping center’s vast parking lots were mostly empty, as were many of the storefronts inside. Within a few months, even Macy’s, an anchor tenant, would be closing. Like many of the shopping malls that sprouted up across America in the 1970s and 1980s, Southwest Center Mall, which opened under the name Red Bird Mall in 1975 at the intersection of Interstate 20 and U.S. 67, once was a symbol of a promising economic future. But on that morning this past January, there was something eerie about the mall’s emptiness, like a scene out of a 1980s horror film. ....

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