The San Jacinto mall
has been providing a place for people to go for many of years. It has provided
the city of Baytown with jobs and opportunities to the community with donating
to schools and having events that would keep people occupied and not bored.
Business may have decreased in the years but the mall can still have a lot to
offer to the community. The San Jacinto Mall just needs someone with new ideas
to be put something exciting back into the San Jacinto and rejuvenate and make
it like used to be. The San Jacinto Mall still has some hope into it. It is too
big and has been around too long and tribute too much to the city of Baytown
for it to go to waste. The potential is unbelievable for it to sit there. With
all the space in there and the vacant stores it should be something the city
can do to help and spark some ideas together to give this city something to
look forward to like it used to be in the first couple years of opening.
Baytown is growing left and right and the San Jacinto Mall should grow with it.
It is a historic place that started all of the growth of the businesses that
are open now. Life can be put back in there with some popular stores instead of
people driving hours away to other malls and boosting their business when the
San Jacinto Mall is in desperately need of that business. With the youth that
is growing up it could give them something more to do on a Friday or Saturday
night. Instead of just being packed on holidays it should be packed every
weekend like it used to be when my parents and me where growing up. It should
not be that hard to make it happen with all the people that stay in Baytown it
should be easy.
If
you been in Baytown you probably have been in the San Jacinto Mall. San Jacinto
Mall opened on March 4, 1981 with anchors stores such as JC Penny’s, Sears,
Macy’s and Mervin’s when it was open. When San Jacinto Mall opened it was very
successful when it opened because of the location of it. Baytown was a small area
it the San Jacinto Mall was huge thing to be open at the time it had opened.
The San Jacinto Mall has decreased in business these last few years because of
the competition of other businesses around the area of Baytown and has changed
owner 4 times since it has been open. The mall use to be a nice place to go and
it still is business just slowed down. The mall use to offer a fair before they
added Texas Road house to the parking lot. The interview I had with my dad. He
said “the San Jacinto Mall was the place to be when it had first opened. It had
a night club in there that I use to go to sometimes when I was in Baytown. I
took you and your sister there a lot when you were little. I took you and her
upstairs and use to play on the little play area the San Jacinto Mall had for
kids and took you the movies also. I do not know what happened to it now it has
not been the same for some years but it is still apart of Baytown and the San
Jacinto mall help the city growing into what it is now”. The San Jacinto mall
still has some what business because of the movie theatre. That is what is
probably still keeping it open until this day.
I remember the mall was around before I could even
remember. My parents use to go that mall when they were in their 20’s maybe
even teens. My dad even said the mall use to have a club in it but I do not
know how true that is. I remember back in my middle schools days everybody uses
to want to be up there every weekend because that was the thing to do at the
time. I literally watch every movie that came out in the movie theater back
when I was in middle school. The mall use to be so pack that the movies use to
be sold out and if you did not get there early then you were not seeing that
movie at all. Another thing I loved about the mall was the orange chicken I use
to get from that Chinese restaurant. I cannot remember the name but I know it
tasted like the best thing on earth. I also liked the arcade games they were
fun too. It was never a dull moment at the mall when I was in middle school
because everyone was bored and had nothing better to do with their Saturdays.
The mall has taken a lot of my money from going to Thristy’s and getting that
every time I went. I missed when the mall had Chik Fil A in it too because you
could get it with ease and did not have to wait as long as people do now when
they go to Chik Fil A. The mall was an exciting place when I was growing up to
go and my little sisters even spend some of their Saturdays up there.
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