{"id":400618,"date":"2026-08-07T22:08:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T22:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/400618\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T22:08:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T22:08:13","slug":"demolition-looms-for-once-vibrant-ridgmar-mall-in-fort-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/400618\/","title":{"rendered":"Demolition looms for once-vibrant Ridgmar Mall in Fort Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fort Worth\u2019s largely vacant Ridgmar Mall, once a retail hotspot, soon will face the wrecking ball.<\/p>\n

Ramrock Real Estate just bought the 50-year-old mall for an undisclosed amount. Ramrock Real Estate, in partnership with real estate companies Lincoln Property Co. and KBC Advisors, plans to convert the 75-acre site into a nearly 931,000-square-foot logistics center with six warehouses.<\/p>\n

KBC Advisors partner Tony Creme tells CultureMap there\u2019s no exact timetable for the few remaining tenants, including a Dillard\u2019s clearance store, to vacate the mall or for demolition of the 1.2 million-square-foot property. Demolition could begin in 12 to 18 months, he says, with construction of Ridgmar 30 Logistics Crossing tentatively expected to start in 2028.<\/p>\n

\"Ridgmar A six-building business park will replace the 50-year-old Ridgmar Mall, Fort Worth\u2019s fully enclosed shopping center.Rendering courtesy of Lincoln Property Co. and KBC Advisors<\/p>\n

The 75-acre site is at the northeast corner of I-30 and State Highway 183.<\/p>\n

Creme says GK Real Estate owned the mall itself, JCPenney owned its store, and Transformco, which bought Sears out of bankruptcy, owned the former Sears property.<\/p>\n

In recent years, Ridgmar has said goodbye to several key tenants, most notably Macy\u2019s, Neiman Marcus, and Sears. Plano-based JCPenney recently said it would close its Ridgmar store on November 1<\/a>. A self-storage operator occupies the former Macy\u2019s store.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe mall is not getting many visitors. There\u2019s not many businesses that are open,\u201d says Creme.<\/p>\n

Previously, plans had been floated to convert the mall site into a mixed-use development, but Creme says a warehouse project turned out to be the best use for the property.<\/p>\n

Creme points out Ridgmar \u201cwas once a vibrant hub of social and economic activity in the community\u201d that drew shoppers from throughout the Fort Worth area.<\/p>\n

In grand fashion, the mall held a grand opening ceremony in October 1976 attended by Miss Texas Carmen McCollum and actor Frank Gorshin, who portrayed the Riddler on the \u201cBatman\u201d TV series in the 1960s.<\/p>\n

The five original anchors at Fort Worth\u2019s first fully enclosed shopping center were a full-price Dillard\u2019s as well as JCPenney, Neiman Marcus, Sears, and local department store Stripling\u2019s. But more than a decade ago, Neiman Marcus led an exodus from Ridgmar, followed by Macy\u2019s and Sears. Dillard\u2019s downgraded its store to a clearance center.<\/p>\n

Attempts to revive the mall included the arrival of an interactive aquarium and an H&M store, both of which are now closed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fort Worth\u2019s largely vacant Ridgmar Mall, once a retail hotspot, soon will face the wrecking ball. Ramrock Real…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[14339,116,118,117,62097,33960,89156,85412,808],"class_list":["post-400618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-demolition","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-logistics-center","tag-mall","tag-ridgmar","tag-ridgmar-mall","tag-shopping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400618","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=400618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}