Sears, located on the south side of the Broadway Square Mall, is pictured on Monday April 30, 2018 in Tyler, Texas. (Sarah A. Miller/Tyler Morning Telegraph)

A project to add retail space and restaurants at the Broadway Square Mall will move forward. 

The Tyler City Council gave the project a green light at a meeting on Wednesday after the Planning and Zoning Commission approved the project earlier this month. 

Simon Property Group, which owns the mall, is seeking to demolish the Sears building and build about 118,000 square feet of retail space, including the Sears building’s replacement and an additional building with room for two tenants.

The proposal would also build two new restaurants on the property near South Broadway Avenue and change the parking layout on the land. There would be less square footage on the property devoted to parking, but there would be more devoted to landscaping.

Councilman Don Warren joked Wednesday that the development would get in the way of a carnival that has been hosted in the past on the southern part of the Broadway Square Mall property.  

“We are excited to redevelop Broadway Square in a way that will benefit the Tyler community and the existing retailers and look forward to sharing specific plans in the future,” Les Morris, a spokesman for the Simon Property Group, said in a prepared statement. 

A Sears spokesman said in a statement: “We have a multiyear lease at the store and we plan to continue serving our customers and members in Tyler.” 

The Broadway Square Mall is a 45-acre property with 630,000 square feet of retail space. The mall historically had the highest amount of retail space in Tyler, but is now second to the Village at Cumberland Park, which had 650,000 square feet in January and has been filling another 60,000 square feet.

Earlier this month, the Broadway Square Mall announced four new tenants — W Salon, Journey’s Kidz, Tradehome Shoes and Marc Robinson Jewelers — moving into retail spaces between 1,000 and 2,000 square feet each.

Also this month, Journey’s, a store offering shoes and accessories, finished a remodel of its 2,500 square foot store near JCPenney; Spencer’s, a specialty gift store moved to a new 2,500-square-foot location within the mall; and Chick-Fil-A finished a remodel on 1,800 square feet of property.

Simon Property Group is an Indiana-based company that has retail space in North America, Europe and Asia. The company, which is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange, had market capitalization of $49.3 billion on Wednesday.

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