Pearlanders excited about the Dillards, Macy’s, Barnes & Noble, and other typical mall fare that will become available to them when the new Pearland Town Center opens next summer will likely find even more excitement when they learn they’ll be able to drive right up to their favorite stores!

And no, it won’t be a Big Box center. (At least . . . not at first.) It’ll be just like a mall, except it’ll be open-air. It’ll be just like an outlet mall, except the streets will be tighter and more “urban.” It’ll be just like a downtown shopping district, except . . . it’ll be surrounded by a sea of parking!

And just what premium will shoppers be willing to pay for the chance they might be able to grab one of the few head-in spaces right in front of the Great American Cookie Co.? Once they’re in the outer parking areas, will they take a chance and wait patiently in traffic for the possibility there might just be a head-in space available there, or maybe in front of Victoria’s Secret?

Or . . . will all those premium close-in spaces go valet?

How much of a traffic backup will this new mall design cause? More on that, plus more artist renderings of the new mall, after the jump.

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First, lovely views of the shopping-street-within-a-parking-lot:

Will the new mall design cause a lot of internal traffic from cruising shoppers who demand to park in the very closest space? Maybe not. But this drive-time map, taken straight from mall REIT CBL & Associates’ sales brochure, doesn’t offer much assurance. From our reading, it appears to show that Pearland Town Center will be about a 15-minute drive from . . . the center of Pearland.

• Pearland Town Center under way [The Facts]
• Pearland Town Center [CBL & Associates Properties]
• Pearland Town Center Site Plan [CBL & Associates Properties]