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Windsor Park Mall

From the authors' mapReinhabitedRetrofit builtWindcrest, TX

Opened 1978. Reinhabited in 2007.

Status nowRetrofit builtderived from authors' map (retrofit year present)
Site size1,079,250 sq ft GLAEsri 2014 layer
Retrofit year2007authors' map
Walkability11.8 of 20 · 15-minute 6 of 6EPA, OpenStreetMap
Rail within 800 mNoOpenStreetMap, HUD
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Former anchors
Dillard'sThis site: Dillard's wikipedia · all sites with this
JCPenneyThis site: JCPenney wikipedia · all sites with this
Finance and pipeline
On FacebookThis site: …https://www.facebook.com/116508908397440 overture · all sites with this
Website aliveThis site: …http://www.shopsimon.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
30,000+ vehicles a day on an adjacent roadThis site: 140,352 on 35 fhwa-hpms · all sites with this
County permitting 2,000+ apartment units a yearThis site: 2,506 units, Bexar County census-bps · all sites with this
Grocery within 800 mThis site: 2 stores openstreetmap · all sites with this
High social vulnerability tract (SVI ≥ 0.75)This site: 0.94 cdc-svi · all sites with this
High tornado riskThis site: Relatively High fema-nri · all sites with this
Interstate or freeway within 600 mThis site: 35 fhwa-hpms · all sites with this
Renter-majority tractThis site: 53% census-acs · all sites with this
Scale
1M+ sq ft GLAThis site: 1,079,250 sq ft esri-closed-us-malls-2014 · all sites with this
Building footprint 50,000+ m²This site: 57,675 m² overture · all sites with this
Strategy
ReinhabitedThis site: Reinhabitation: office record · all sites with this
New use
OfficeThis site: Reinhabitation: office arcgis-webmap · all sites with this

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From the authors' map

TX, Windcrest: Windsor Park Mall/Rackspace, 2007
• Reinhabitation: office

Now

StatusRetrofit builtderived from authors' map (retrofit year present)
StrategyReinhabitedauthors' map
What is there nowReinhabitation: officeauthors' map
Retrofit year2007authors' map

Site context

FEMA flood zoneX · AREA OF MINIMAL FLOOD HAZARDFEMA NFHL
EPA-regulated facilities within 500 m6: CITY OF WINDCREST MS4; GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF SAN ANTONIO DGR PROCESSING; HOME DEPOT STORE 580; L&F ENTERPRISES INC DBA ELDORADO CLEANER; LANDMARK INDUSTRIES LTDEPA FRS
Census tract 480291214035,288 people, 3,041 per sq mi; median household income $52,193; median gross rent $1,162; 53% renters; 10.1% vacant units; 7.1% commute by transitACS 2023 5-year
Walkability (EPA, block group)index 11.8 of 20; 109 intersections per sq mi; nearest transit stop 429 m; land-use mix 0.36; 144,675 jobs within 45 min by car, 82,877 by transit; 2% of households without a carEPA Smart Location
Within a 10–15 minute walk (800 m)6 of 6 daily needs: 2 grocers, 3 schools, 12 parks or playgrounds, 2 health, 1 civic, 24 food and drink; 1 cycleway segments, 78 sidewalk-tagged segmentsOpenStreetMap
Opportunity ZonenoHUD
Housing permits, Bexar County (TX), 20242,506 units in 5+ unit buildings, 28 in 2–4, 5,815 single-family; 2023: 4,932 in 5+Census BPS
Social vulnerability (CDC SVI 2022, tract)overall percentile 0.94; socioeconomic 0.83; housing and transport 0.93; 24% below 150% of poverty; 7% of households with no vehicleCDC/ATSDR
Other atlas sites nearby2 within 10 km, 4 within 25 km: Windcrest International Business Park (1.6 km); Castle (1.6 km)computed
Overture Mapsplace Windsor Park Mall (shopping_mall, confidence 0.83, from Overture, meta); building footprint 57,675 m², 17.3 mOverture (CDLA-Permissive 2.0)
Website and socialwww.shopsimon.com (alive); archived 2000–2024 (Wayback) · social: facebookOverture / Internet Archive
Tract change 2013–2023population -1% (5,347 → 5,288); median income +52% ($34,231 → $52,193); renters 70% → 53%; median home value +99% ($103,400 → $206,000)Census ACS 5-year
Natural hazard risk (FEMA National Risk Index, tract)relatively low overall (score 38.4); expected annual loss $1.2M; high: tornado, hail; community resilience relatively lowFEMA NRI
Tax-credit housing within 1 kmnoneHUD LIHTC
Retail trade in the county, 2012 to 20235,037 establishments (+3%); 98,269 jobs (+20%)Census CBP
Housing market in the countytypical home value $250,969 (-2% 1 yr, +4% 5 yr); typical rent $1,393/mo (-1% 1 yr), 2026-09Zillow Research
Traffic on the busiest road within 600 m (2024)140,352 vehicles a day on 35 (Interstate, 6 lanes); 20,732 trucks; 20 counted segmentsFHWA HPMS

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  • retrofit already built
  • 1,079,250 sq ft GLA (large site)
  • county grew 5.8% 2018–23

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History and original facts

Now called / also known asRackspace
Opened1978Esri 2014 layer
Gross leasable area1,079,250 sq ftEsri 2014 layer
Stores at peak147Esri 2014 layer
AnchorsDillard's, Vacant, JCPenney, Mervyns
AddressIH-35 N. & Walzem Rd.
CountyBexar
Census division7 · West South Central

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Background

Windsor Park Mall was a shopping mall located on the northeast side of San Antonio, Texas, off Interstate 35 and Walzem Road. It was opened by Melvin Simon and Associates in 1976 as San Antonio's first four-anchor shopping center, adding a fifth anchor space in 1985. After Simon opened Rolling Oaks Mall in 1988 and the mall experienced a series of crime incidents in the 1990s, it declined. All of its anchors closed between 2001 and 2005, with the mall itself closing along with Mervyn's in 2005.

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

Timeline

  1. 1978 Opened
  2. 2007 Retrofit: reinhabit

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