Greenspoint Mall may be gone, but new affordable housing, retails and restaurants are on the way

Greenspoint Mall opened in August of 1976 to great fanfare.
By the late 80s, the mall had expanded, and with the big footprint and all of the big names in retail, found a home at Greenspoint Mall on Houston’s northside.

[tjbroussard]

Still not worth living in that area just to get robbed.

[ChatNowAmerica]

They say crime is down, hopefully it is, but… let’s not forget HPD is sitting on 270, 000 cases that they set aside due to so called staffing issues..

[debbiejohnson]

I remember how beautiful Greenspoint Mall used to be back in the 80's. Always went to Visible Changes for salon care. I always marveled at the mall's beautiful flooring as I walked across it. Sad, but those days are gone forever. Rest in peace Greenspoint Mall.

[pwgxejo]

Man greenspoint mall use to be the spot when I was younger in the 90’s.

[dvinedzine]

I think the crime rate goes down when there are fewer places to rob. 🤔

[izzawigsis]

I worked at guns piont mall. I had to pray before coming to work. No way, it's safer.

[lvbadboy]

Low income housing will turn it into a new ghetto, should turn it into warehouses

[aoikemono]

Of course the numbers will go down with no one to rob.

[christopherharris]

“Built with Harvey funds...” wasn’t that money earmarked for flood control projects; projects still unfinished I believe??

[SOLDOZER]

Low income housing. Yeeeehhhh...so good for retail!

[cmtippens]

Malls are a dying thing. Too easy for thieves to get away by getting lost in the crowd. Shop owners are too afraid of getting killed over their merchandise to fight back. Teens take them over as their own hangouts with no respect to those shopping or running the shops.

Turn the malls into campuses for specialized colleges for trades, or for alternative schooling.
Or create indoor "villages" for elderly and/or special needs adults. Add solar panels to generate at least part of the electric needs. Create open-air allotments for gardening. Have on-site urgent care available. Put a day care in another area.

There are many different ways to reuse the malls that are closed or closing. We need to stop building new stuff and refresh old resources to make them useful again.

[georrodi]

So many memories of eating Brothers Pizza in that food court before heading off to the Tilt as a kid.

[mindyourbusiness]

Called that area Gunspoint in the 90's

[jagtechsystems]

Brings back memories! As a kid I grew up going that mall.

[jimarcher]

Affordable housing will help the high end retail and restaurants. Sure it will.

[MrNeilTV]

Last time I went there went for custom shirts. Used to be a cool airbrush shop in there, on my way out was robbed. Jazz it up all you want it’s still gunspoint. Crime isn’t down, crime just doesn’t get reported because the entire system is a joke.

[Tootsie]

I miss Piccadilly cafeteria, especially the Mexican cornbread.

[serg]

lol affordable housing means future ghetto

[AC-oshe]

1:58 crime is going down? Didn't the cheif recently admit that he ignored a ton of assault cases?

[TroyGoodwin]

You could put some lipstick on a pig, but it’ll still be Gunspoint.