Malls · Oklahoma

Shepherd Mall

From the authors' mapReinhabitedRetrofit builtOklahoma City, OK

Opened 1964. Closed 2003. Reinhabited in 1995. · from the fields below

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Shepherd Mall — Exterior view of a commercial building with signage and landscaping under cloudy sky. · verified by a vision model. Photo: Jmbranum, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Former anchors

Dillards

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Finance and pipeline

On Facebook

This site: …https://www.facebook.com/132556946788588 overture · all sites with this

Website dead or redirecting

This site: …www.shepherdmalldentistry.com overture / http check · all sites with this

Place

15-minute neighbourhood (5+ of 6 daily needs within 800 m)

This site: 6/6 openstreetmap · all sites with this

Grocery within 800 m

This site: 4 stores openstreetmap · all sites with this

Low social vulnerability tract (SVI ≤ 0.25)

This site: 0.02 cdc-svi · all sites with this

Scale

Building footprint 50,000+ m²

This site: 51,936 m² overture · all sites with this

Strategy

Reinhabited

This site: Reinhabitation: government offices, education record · all sites with this

New use

Civic and government

This site: Reinhabitation: government offices, education extraction · all sites with this

Office

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From the authors' map

OK, Oklahoma City: Shepherd Mall/ Shepherd Center, 1995
• Reinhabitation: government offices, education

Now

Status	Retrofit builtderived from authors' map (retrofit year present) reported
Strategy	Reinhabitedauthors' map reported
New uses	office, civicextracted, unreviewed reported
What is there now	Reinhabitation: government offices, educationauthors' map reported
Retrofit year	1995authors' map reported

Site context

FEMA flood zone	X · AREA OF MINIMAL FLOOD HAZARDFEMA NFHL
EPA-regulated facilities within 500 m	3: FIRESTONE TIRE & SERVICE; TMOBILE CENTRAL LLC / SHEPHERD MALL; WALMART NEIGHBORHOOD MARKET #3615EPA FRS
Census tract 40109100201	1,635 people, 3,713 per sq mi; median household income $81,426; median gross rent $989; 28% renters; 8.5% vacant units; 0.0% commute by transitACS 2023 5-year
Within a 10–15 minute walk (800 m)	6 of 6 daily needs: 4 grocers, 4 schools, 16 parks or playgrounds, 3 health, 6 civic, 10 food and drink; 3 cycleway segments, 70 sidewalk-tagged segmentsOpenStreetMap
Opportunity Zone	noHUD
Housing permits, Oklahoma County (OK), 2024	1,248 units in 5+ unit buildings, 385 in 2–4, 4,531 single-family; 2023: 363 in 5+Census BPS
Social vulnerability (CDC SVI 2022, tract)	overall percentile 0.02; socioeconomic 0.05; housing and transport 0.06; 8% below 150% of poverty; 2% of households with no vehicleCDC/ATSDR
Other atlas sites nearby	0 within 10 km, 2 within 25 kmcomputed
Overture Maps	place Shepherd Mall (shopping_mall, confidence 0.80, from Overture, meta); building footprint 51,936 m²Overture (CDLA-Permissive 2.0)
Website and social	(down or redirecting, status 0); archived 2013–2015 (Wayback) · social: facebookOverture / Internet Archive
Attention: Wikipedia page views	1,230 since 2015; 1,230 in the last 12 months; peak 2026-07 with 285Wikimedia
Tract change 2013–2023	tract boundary changed between the 2010 and 2020 census; no 2013 comparisonCensus ACS
Natural hazard risk (FEMA National Risk Index, tract)	very low overall (score 13.6); expected annual loss $805,261; community resilience relatively lowFEMA NRI
Tax-credit housing within 1 km	noneHUD LIHTC
Retail trade in the county, 2025 (BLS QCEW)	48,210 jobs in 3,216 establishments; average annual pay $42,198; employment location quotient 0.98; employment -1.0% on the yearBLS QCEW 2025, NAICS 44-45, private
Jobs located in the tract, 2022	1,259 jobs; 274 in retail trade, 130 in accommodation and food (workplace blocks summed to tract 40109100201)Census LEHD LODES8 WAC 2022
Upward mobility (Opportunity Atlas, 2010 tract)	children of low-income (25th percentile) families reached the 38th income percentile as adults; 2.1% incarcerated at the 2010 count (832 children in the sample); born 1978–83, measured 2014–15Opportunity Insights
Food access (USDA FARA 2019, 2010 tract)	not a low-access tract at 1 mile; poverty rate 24.8%; median family income $55,970; 430 SNAP householdsUSDA ERS
Schools	Oklahoma City Public Schools (PK-12); 6 public schools within 1 mile: ASTEC CHARTER MS; ASTEC CHARTER HS; HAWTHORNE ES; NORTHWEST CLASSEN HSNCES EDGE
Elevation	1,226 ft above sea level at the site pointUSGS 3DEP
Storm events in the county, 2016-2025	739 county-logged events: 367 hail, 229 thunderstorm wind, 96 flash flood, 27 tornado; $57,977,000 property damage reported; 1 direct deaths; forecast-zone events (most flood, winter and heat) not countedNOAA Storm Events
Homes for sale in ZIP 73107, 2026-09	median list price $214,750 (-3.7% on the year); 111 active listings; median 61 days on market; 33% with a price cutRealtor.com Research
Retail trade in the county, 2012 to 2023	2,946 establishments (+1%); 49,251 jobs (+17%)Census CBP
Housing market in the county	typical home value $221,970 (+0% 1 yr, +21% 5 yr); typical rent $1,341/mo (+3% 1 yr), 2026-09Zillow Research
House price index, tract, 2025	317 (2000 = 100); -3.6% 1 yr, +19% 5 yr, +53% 10 yrFHFA
Traffic on the busiest road within 600 m (2024)	15,600 vehicles a day on NORTHWEST 23RD ST (principal arterial, 4 lanes); 18 counted segmentsFHWA HPMS

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Elsewhere on the web

Retail history: Shepherd Mall on DeadMalls.com photos, field notes and visitor memories since 2000; matched by name and city; nothing copied here

Pages with photos

Shepherd Mall Memories...OKC youtube.com
Shepherd Mall back on track oklahoman.com
Shepherd Mall flickr.com
Part of the crowd at the then-new (now-defunct) Shepherd Mall Sh… reddit.com
Shepherd Mall Map - Oklahoma - Mapcarta mapcarta.com
2401 NW 23rd St, Oklahoma City, OK 73107 - Shepherd Center Office ... loopnet.com
Shepherd Mall - Page 7 okctalk.com
SHEPHERD MALL - Updated March 2025 - 2… yelp.com

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History and original facts

Now called / also known as	Shepherd Center
Opened	1964extracted, unreviewed
Closed	2003extracted, unreviewed documented by 2003 all of the anchors had closed and the mall was well underway in transitioning to being primarily an office complex. en.wikipedia.org
Anchors	TG&Y, J.C. Penney, Kerr's, Dillard Brown Dunkin, McCrory's, Dillards
County	Oklahoma County
Census division	7 · West South Central

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Background

Shepherd Mall is a former shopping mall located in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma that opened in 1964 as the first fully-enclosed indoor shopping mall in Oklahoma City; however, by 2003 all of the anchors had closed and the mall was well underway in transitioning to being primarily an office complex.

Excerpt from Wikipedia (authors and history), CC BY-SA 4.0. May be older than the record above.

Timeline

1964 Grand opening
1964 Opened as first fully-enclosed indoor shopping mall in Oklahoma City
1995 Retrofit: reinhabit
2003 All anchor stores closed; mall transitioning to office complex
2017 Name changed to Shepherd Center to reflect current use

Sources

Wikipedia · supports: year closed, year opened
6 quoted sentences
Shepherd Mall is a former shopping mall located in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma that opened in 1964 as the first fully-enclosed indoor shopping mall in Oklahoma City;
by 2003 all of the anchors had closed and the mall was well underway in transitioning to being primarily an office complex.
Shepherd Mall had its grand opening on Nov. 5, 1964 and received local media attention for 'creating its own weather' (this was Oklahoma City's first indoor shopping mall).
Shepherd Mall is a former shopping mall located in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma that opened in 1964 as the first fully-enclosed indoor shopping mall in Oklahoma City;
Retrofitting Suburbia Interactive Mall Map (ArcGIS web map ce33ab26…) · 2021-01-20

Cite

Retrofit Atlas (2026). "Shepherd Mall, Oklahoma City, OK." Record m-b5120d6eaf, from the authors' map. Built on the public Retrofitting Suburbia map (Dunham-Jones and Williamson) and the sources listed. https://retrofitatlas.org/malls/ok/oklahoma-city-shepherd-mall/ (accessed 2026-10-20).

BibTeX

@misc{retrofitatlas_oklahomacityshepherdmall,
  title = {Shepherd Mall, Oklahoma City, OK},
  author = {{Retrofit Atlas}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://retrofitatlas.org/malls/ok/oklahoma-city-shepherd-mall/}},
  year = {2026},
  note = {Record m-b5120d6eaf, release 2026-10-20, tier: curated. Built on the Retrofitting Suburbia map (Dunham-Jones and Williamson) and the sources listed on the record. Accessed 2026-10-20}
}

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