NorthPark Center is an upscale shopping mall

Shopping mall

A shopping mall, shopping centre, shopping arcade, shopping precinct or simply mall is one or more buildings forming a complex of shops representing merchandisers, with interconnecting walkways enabling visitors to easily walk from unit to unit, along with a parking area — a modern, indoor version...

 located in Dallas, Texas

Dallas, Texas

Dallas is the third-largest city in Texas and the ninth-largest in the United States. The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex is the largest metropolitan area in the South and fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States...

 (United States). The mall is located at the intersection of Loop 12
(Northwest Highway)

State Highway Loop 12 (Texas)

Loop 12 is a state highway that runs mostly within the city limits of Dallas, Texas. During the 1950s and 60s, Loop 12 was the outer beltway in the Dallas area, having since been supplanted by Interstate 635, which is itself being supplanted by the President George Bush Turnpike...

 and US 75 (North Central Expressway

Central Expressway (Dallas)

Central Expressway is a north–south highway in Dallas, Texas and surrounding areas.- North Central Expressway :The best-known section is the North Central Expressway, a name for a freeway section of U.S. Highway 75 between downtown Dallas and McKinney, Texas...

). The center has over 235 stores and restaurants. NorthPark is the first shopping center featured on Vogue Magazine. It has annual sales of more than $1 billion.
In the early 1960s, developer Raymond Nasher

Raymond Nasher

Raymond Nasher was a Duke University alumnus who was an avid art collector. Together with his wife Patsy, he amassed a substantial number of the world's greatest sculptures and various other important pieces...

 leased a 97 acres (392,545.4 m²) cotton field on the edge of Dallas and hired Eero Saarinen

Eero Saarinen

Eero Saarinen was a Finnish American architect and industrial designer of the 20th century famous for varying his style according to the demands of the project: simple, sweeping, arching structural curves or machine-like rationalism.-Biography:Eero Saarinen shared the same birthday as his father,...

 to design Northpark and the Dallas architecture firm Harrell and Hamilton, now known as Omniplan

Omniplan

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 as the Architect of Record.