Allen Premium Outlets has been one of the busiest shopping centers in North Texas since it opened in 2000.
The shopping center draws visitors from throughout North Texas and Oklahoma. It would be packed on any Saturday, especially the weekend before Mother’s Day.
It’s a sprawling open-air shopping center with 120 stores including Coach, Tory Burch and Michael Kors, at an intersection with one of the highest retail concentrations in the region.
Across U.S. Highway 75 are Fairview Town Center and the Village at Allen with anchors Dillard’s, JCPenney, Macy’s, Old Navy, Best Buy and Target.
It’s one of the first outlet shopping centers built in Texas closer to a big city. The older iteration of outlet malls were in smaller towns along major highways. Open-air outlet centers compete with traditional malls as shoppers seek out discounts from their favorite brands.
Allen Premium Outlets has 548,443 square feet of retail space and is nearly 100% leased.
The shopping center, which is owned by Simon Property Group, completed a two-year expansion in 2018 that added 122,000 square feet of space including a new wing in the middle of the shopping center. Parking was expanded by 1,300 spaces. That expansion included H&M and the only Armani Outlet in North Texas.
A Hampton hotel on the property is booked with shoppers during the holiday shopping season. While Black Friday crowds have lessened over the years, Allen Premium Outlets still attracts lines of cars in the early-morning opening hours.
Locally, Simon also owns Grapevine Mills, Firewheel Town Center in Garland, Grand Prairie Premium Outlets, North East Mall in Hurst, and University Park Village and The Shops at Clearfork in Fort Worth.
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