Valley View Mall

Valley View Mall/Midtown Update: Make It More Like San Jose’s Santana Row ?

By Candy Evans / October 27, 2015 /

Yeah, that’s about what they said. City planners (the Urban Design Peer Review Panel) and officials in the Office of Economic Development got their first look late last week at Scott Beck’s ambitious plans to turn Valley View Mall at LBJ and Preston into a magical live-work-shop-movie-eat-play conglomeration called Midtown. From Robert Wilonsky’s report, Scott Beck…

Let's Gondola Over to Dallas Midtown Valley View… Shaping Up as a New Dallas Community

By Candy Evans / April 4, 2013 /

Valley View Shopping Center is shaping up on paper like a Victoria’s Secret glossy ad, but one thing’s for sure: it may never again look like the Valley View Mall many of us grew up with! I will never forget the opening of Bloomingdales over there, how cool was that? Alas, now Valley View is…

Remember Midtown? Dallas City Planners Present Mixed-Use Plan For Valley View/Galleria Area

By Joanna England / March 21, 2013 /

Every time I drive by the practically abandoned Valley View Mall, I let out a little sigh. It’s just so ugly! The only thing that attracts a crowd over there is the random carnival. It’s tragic, especially for such a visible area. But Scott Beck, who purchased Valley View last year, has sworn to revive…

Chatting Up the Buyer of Valley View Mall: What Scott Beck Has In STORE for Us

By Candy Evans / May 9, 2012 /

Artists and live music on Saturdays and a five star hotel? A viable urban village at one of the country’s busiest intersections? Scott Beck grew up at Valley View Mall, the same mall he bought about a week ago. Well, not actually in the mall, but within two miles of it, near Beltline Road and…

Valley View Mall: Another Bishop Arts, The Shops at Legacy Legacy?

By Candy Evans / April 24, 2012 /

Valley View Mall has apparently been purchased by the Jeff Beck family, who plans to turn the hollow, seemingly vacated, 39 year old mall into an outdoor complex called “Dallas Midtown.” According to WFAA-TV,  a press conference at 10 a.m will reveal further details. This will be a $2 billion project along the lines of the hyper successful The Shops at…