Amigoland Mall

Amigoland Mall ("Amigo" means "friend" in Spanish) was an enclosed shopping mall located in Brownsville, Texas. The former mall, which now houses a tech center, is now called the Brownsville ITEC Center.

Brownsville ITEC Center (formerly Amigoland Mall)

Location	Brownsville, Texas
Coordinates	25.9021°N 97.5104°W / 25.9021; -97.5104
Address	301 Mexico Blvd, Brownsville, TX 78520, USA
Opening date	1974
Closing date	2001 (renovated as Brownsville ITEC Center, 2002)
Developer	Melvin Simon & Associates
Owner	Texas Southmost College
No. of stores and services	52
No. of anchor tenants	4
Total retail floor area	647,000 sq ft (60,100 m2)
No. of floors	1-2

The 647,000-square-foot (60,100 m²) mall, developed by Melvin Simon & Associates (now Simon Property Group), opened in downtown Brownsville in 1974, with Montgomery Ward, JCPenney (which also featured a JCPenney Supermarket), and Dillard's as anchors. Other early tenants included McCrory Stores, Walgreens, and a two-screen movie theater. It later gained Bealls as an additional anchor.

In 1999, both JCPenney and Dillard's relocated to nearby Sunrise Mall.^[1] The loss of these stores caused declining traffic at Amigoland.^[2] The bankruptcy of Montgomery Ward in 2000 left the older mall devoid of anchors and shortly afterward, the mall was shuttered.

In 2002, the vacant mall was converted to classrooms and a tech center for Texas Southmost College.^[3]