New development plans emerge for Fort Worth’s struggling Ridgmar Mall
A once prominent mall in Fort Worth that has lost most of its major retailers could soon be receiving major renovations, records show.
Westwood Professional Services, a Fort Worth-based engineering and land surveying firm, filed FAA building height reviews for eight separate buildings at the Ridgmar Mall, at 1888 Green Oaks Road, just south of the runway at Naval Air Station Fort Worth. Records show that each of the eight proposed buildings would be around 70 feet tall. The FAA reviews check whether new or proposed buildings meet height regulations.
Westwood’s filings are still being studied by the FAA and no paperwork or permit requests have been filed with the city. In order for a plan to proceed, the Fort Worth City Council would have to approve several grants to move the project forward. But the FAA filings are the first sign of potential activity at the mall in several years.
The Ridgmar Mall first opened in 1976 and included Dillard’s, Sears, JCPenney and Neiman Marcus. The mall was considered one of Fort Worth’s primary shopping destinations throughout the 1980s and ‘90s.
But in the 2010s, most of the mall’s major retailers started to leave and the number of customers regularly shopping at the venue decreased significantly. Sears closed its Ridgmar Mall location in 2017 and Neiman Marcus moved to Clearfork that same year. Large sections of the mall are vacant.
Other attempts to redevelop the mall have failed or stalled in previous years. In 2015, GK Development, now known as GK Real Estate, proposed a multiphase redevelopment that featured interior upgrades to reposition the mall as a major Fort Worth destination. The project ended up reeling in an H&M location and a remodeled movie theater, but its plan to majorly reinvent the mall as a major shopping venue in Fort Worth fell flat.
In 2017, In Place Design, a Baltimore-based architecture firm, unveiled a major reimagining of the mall that included open-air retail replacing sections of the mall that were enclosed, residential units and urban streetscape. The plan was essentially to turn Ridgmar into something like Clearfork. But no clear timeline or new tenants were announced and shortly after, Macy’s and Neiman Marcus left Ridgmar.
Westwood Professional Services did not immediately respond to the Star-Telegram’s request for comment on its FAA filings and what a renovation project at Ridgmar could look like.
This story was originally published April 1, 2026 at 12:44 PM.
