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First Colony Mall
First Colony Mall is a regional shopping mall in Sugar Land, Texas, located about southwest of Houston. The mall — located south of the intersection of Interstate 69/U.S. Route 59 and State Highway 6—opened on March 14, 1996 and was recently expanded in 2006. First Colony Mall is owned by General Growth Properties and is anchored by two Dillard's locations, Macy's, and JCPenney, as well as a 24-screen AMC Theatres complex located on an outlying parcel southeast of the mall.
==History==
The mall had been planned as a key component of the First Colony master-planned community since its planning stages. Before the mall's opening, many Fort Bend County residents often traveled to Sharpstown Mall, Westwood Mall or West Oaks Mall for retail services. Construction was delayed for several years due to the economic fallout in Houston from the 1980s oil glut as well as a competing mall proposal in the nearby New Territory development. Eventually, the First Colony proposal came to fruition and the land for the proposed mall at New Territory has since become the planned community of River Park.
First Colony Mall opened on March 14, 1996 as the first regional shopping mall in Fort Bend County, with a single-level format similar in design to nearby West Oaks Mall that was positioned as being "family-friendly", with carpeted walkways and skylights. The original anchors were Foley's, Dillard's, JCPenney and Mervyn's, the latter store of which opened as the first (and only) ''Mervyn's California'' in Greater Houston; consequently the mall would become the first regional mall in Houston since the Galleria to open without a Sears store, Sears' eventual decline in prominence as a retailer and saw there no need for another location since Sears West oaks had a successful apparel only store and Sears had no reason to close the Westwood location. In addition, the mall also opened with over 100 stores and a food court, dubbed the ''Sugar Land Cafes''. The mall's opening would significantly impact Sharpstown,and Westwood malls, with the latter closing in 1998 and converting to a technology-focused office complex.
On February 16, 1998, a tornado damaged the mall and the Sugar Land Aerodrome ice skating complex located south of the mall.〔(Texas twister hits mall ), CNN.com, February 16, 1998.〕 The tornado hit the southwest corner of the Dillard's store and caused a support wall to collapse. Part of the interior was damaged and 5-6 inches of water accumulated inside the store. The tornado also damaged an exterior wall at the JCPenney store, part of the roof, and the mall's sprinkler system, resulting in water damage to several specialty stores in the mall. No one was injured in the tornado, which was surprising given the President's Day shopping crowd present at the mall that day, although two patrons in the nearby ice skating complex sought medical attention on their own,
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