Highland Park Village, Luxury shopping center in Highland Park, Texas, US.
Highland Park Village is a shopping center at the southwest corner of Mockingbird Lane and Preston Road in Highland Park, Texas, designed by Marion Fresenius Fooshee and James B. Cheek and opened in 1931. Its single-story pale stucco buildings carry low-pitched red terracotta barrel-tile roofs, with large round-arched openings framing dark glass storefronts; signs above the arches read "DENO'S" and "E.61st".
John S. Armstrong and his sons-in-law Edgar Flippen and Hugh Prather Sr. planned the center as a town square for Highland Park, sending the architects Marion Fresenius Fooshee and James B. Cheek to study buildings in Barcelona, Seville, Mexico and California. It opened in 1931. After Hugh Prather Sr. died in 1959 his sons took over; the Howard Corporation bought it in 1966, Henry S. Miller and partners in 1976 for $5 million, and HP Village Partners in 2009 for $170 million.
The complex has served for decades as a meeting place for well-off families in the region and still carries stores from designers such as Dior and Hermès. On weekends visitors come to shop and often stay to eat at one of the restaurants overlooking the courtyards.
The grounds sit at the intersection of Mockingbird Lane and Preston Road and offer a valet parking service for visitors. Stores open daily, with some extending hours during special events or holidays.
The Village Theatre opened in 1935 at a construction cost of over $100,000. AMC Theatres bought it in 1987 and demolished its Art Deco interior, turning it into 11,000 square feet of retail space with two screens upstairs. It closed on March 16, 2020, and the space is planned to become an expanded Hermès store.
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