Opening as an open-air shopping center, River Oaks Center would be converted into a fully enclosed mall in the 1980s. But the new millennium would see the mall begin to struggle, and the city push for redevelopment, finally choosing to purchase the mall outright in 2024 to turn it back into an open-air shopping center.
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