{"id":157305,"date":"2026-02-09T19:25:52","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T19:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/157305\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T19:25:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T19:25:52","slug":"crayola-experience-at-shops-of-willow-bend-in-plano-temporarily-closed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/157305\/","title":{"rendered":"Crayola Experience at Shops of Willow Bend in Plano temporarily closed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crayolaexperience.com\/plano\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crayola Experience<\/a> at the Shops at Willow Bend is temporarily closed, according to a sign on the door.<\/p>\n<p>The details <\/p>\n<p>The sign on the door states that <a href=\"https:\/\/centennialrec.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Centennial<\/a>, the development company that owns the mall, has changed the locks on the site Feb. 7 due to &#8220;delinquent rent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Crayola Experience&#8217;s phone number is disconnected, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crayolaexperience.com\/plano\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a> states the facility is temporarily closed.<\/p>\n<p>One more thing<\/p>\n<p>The mall\u2019s ongoing <a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/dallas-fort-worth\/plano-north\/development\/2025\/02\/24\/plano-council-approves-updated-willow-bend-mall-redevelopment-plan\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">redevelopment plan<\/a> is aiming to transform the mall into a mixed-use development, featuring retail, office, residential and parks. Willow Bend\u2019s initial redevelopment plan with Centennial was reworked due to the closure of Macy\u2019s within the mall.<\/p>\n<p>Since adjusting the redevelopment plan in February 2025, <a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/dallas-fort-worth\/plano-north\/business\/2025\/11\/11\/dillards-to-close-plano-location-at-the-shops-at-willow-bend-in-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dillard\u2019s<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/dallas-fort-worth\/plano-north\/business\/2025\/09\/18\/neiman-marcus-to-close-willow-bend-store-for-redevelopment\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Neiman Marcus<\/a> have announced upcoming closures.<\/p>\n<p>A representative with The Shops at Willow Bend said in a statement there are no updates on the mall\u2019s redevelopment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Crayola Experience at the Shops at Willow Bend is temporarily closed, according to a sign on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157306,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[64747,64748,64749,26400,160,162,161],"class_list":["post-157305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-crayola-experience","tag-crayola-plano","tag-crayola-shops-at-willow-bend","tag-dillard","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}