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Amigoland Mall ("Amigo" means "friend" in Spanish) was an enclosed shopping mall located in Brownsville, Texas. The former mall, which now houses a tech center, is now called the Brownsville ITEC Center.

The 647,000-square-foot (60,100 m) mall, developed by Melvin Simon & Associates (now Simon Property Group), opened in downtown Brownsville in 1974, with Montgomery Ward, JCPenney (which also featured a JCPenney Supermarket), and Dillard's as anchors. Other early tenants included McCrory Stores, Walgreens, and a two-screen movie theater. It later gained Bealls as an additional anchor.

In 1999, both JCPenney and Dillard's relocated to nearby Sunrise Mall. The loss of these stores caused declining traffic at Amigoland. The bankruptcy of Montgomery Ward a year later left the older mall devoid of anchors and shortly afterward, the mall was shuttered.

In 2002, the vacant mall was converted to classrooms and a tech center for Texas Southmost College.

References

1. "JC Penney store moves into new location at Sunrise Mall Retail: Old location closes its doors. - Brownsville Herald: Local News". Archived from the original on 2019-08-10. Retrieved 2019-08-10.
2. http://www.brownsvilleherald.com/comments.php?id=P12477_0_1_0_C
3. "Brownsville Economic Development Council". Archived from the original on 2006-02-14. Retrieved 2007-02-22.

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