Stonebriar Centre

In 1988, Homart, then a subsidiary of Sears, planned on putting a million square foot mall in Frisco, which was a town of about 6,000 people at the time.[2]

When Plano city officials learned of Homart's plan, they offered $10 million if the company would move its planned mall across the road into their city limits. Frisco lobbied to keep the planned mall and was able to work out tax incentives to close the deal. Plano then convinced another company, General Growth Properties, to place a mall within their city limits. In 1995, General Growth acquired Homart, who had already signed an agreement with Frisco.[3] The City of Frisco made a final offer to General Growth of a half-cent sales tax rebate, property tax abatement for ten years, and infrastructure improvements in and around the mall. Plano continued to lobby hard for the new mall and Frisco eventually upped its sales-tax grant. Frisco finally opened the mall on August 4, 2000.[4]

In July 2013, the ice rink at the mall, The Ice at Stonebriar, was closed.[5]

In 2015, Sears Holdings spun off 235 of its properties, including the Sears at Stonebriar Centre, into Seritage Growth Properties.[6]

In 2016, the mall's AMC theatre located on the upper levels was closed for three months for updating and remodeling.[7]

In 2017, Carlo's Bake Shop opened at the mall.[8] However, it would permanently close a few years later.[9]

In May 2018, construction began on the 18-story Stonebriar Hyatt Hotel which would be attached to the mall.[10] It opened to the public in June 2020.[11] Also in May 2018, a teenager was arrested for planning to commit a mass shooting at the mall.[12][13]

In 2019, Stonebriar Centre would lose one anchor but gain another. Near the end of 2018, it was announced that Sears would close as part of Sears Holdings filing for bankruptcy protection, with the liquidation of Stonebriar's location being completed by January 2019.[14] In the fall of 2019, KidZania opened adjacent to Dillard's and the former Sears in the space previously occupying the ice rink. This was KidZania's first location to be opened in Texas.[15]

That same year, Apple closed its store at the mall along with its location at The Shops at Willow Bend in Plano, relocating to Galleria Dallas.[16] In November 2019, an Amazon 4-Star store and the sixth in the United States opened within the mall,[17] but it was later closed in 2022.[18]

California Pizza Kitchen closed its location at Stonebriar in mid-July 2020.[19] It has since been replaced by Smokin' Oak Wood-Fired Pizza & Taproom, which opened in fall 2022.[20]

The following are the anchor stores of the mall:[1]

Inside Stonebriar Centre mall

• AMC Theatres — 103,450 sq ft (9,610 m²)
• Dick's Sporting Goods — 77,411 sq ft (7,190 m²), former Galyan's store until 2004
• Dillard's — 206,133 sq ft (19,150 m²), former Macy's store until 2006
• Forever 21 — 27,222 sq ft (2,530 m²)
• JCPenney — 162,347 sq ft (15,080 m²)
• KidZania — 85,000 sq ft (7,900 m²)
• Macy's — 200,544 sq ft (18,630 m²), formerly Foley's until 2006
• Nordstrom — 134,150 sq ft (12,460 m²)
• Barnes & Noble Booksellers — 34,272 sq ft (3,180 m²)
• Dave & Buster's — 49,784 sq ft (4,630 m²)
• H&M — 26,576 sq ft (2,470 m²)

• Galyan's (converted to Dick's Sporting Goods in 2004)
• Foley's (May Department Stores bought out by Federated; all Foley's stores rebranded as Macy's)
• Macy's (Moved into former Foley's space) (converted to Dillard's in 2006)
• Sears — 162,018 sq ft (15,050 m²) (store closed in 2019 as part of Sears Holdings' bankruptcy)

• List of shopping malls in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex

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