Tanger Outlets opens its doors to Fort Worth shoppers; Nike, Cole Haan, H&M among the 70 stores

Dallas Morning News
October 27, 2017

Tanger Outlets Fort Worth opened today in the fast-growing northern section of Tarrant County.

The 350,000-square-foot center is starting out with 70 stores including outlets from Brooks Brothers, Cole Haan, H&M, Michael Kors, Nike, Old Navy and Vera Bradley. Others coming soon include Vinyard Vines, Kate Spade New York and Ann Taylor.  A big draw for some will be the Restoration Hardware Outlet. There are only two others in Texas in Katy and San Marcos.

Tanger Outlets isn’t far from Bu-cee’s new store in Fort Worth and south of Texas Motor Speedway making the area a real Texana destination: a little shopping, a little NASCAR and some Beaver Nuggets and clean restrooms.

Maybe Fort Worth shoppers have new reasons not to make the drive east to Dallas’ more dominant shopping centers.

Major shopping center developers have rediscovered Fort Worth. TangerOutlets is the second shopping center to open there this year.

In February, Neiman Marcus opened a new store in the Shops at Clearfork and it stood alone for several months until more stores opened this fall. Neiman Marcus moved its store from Ridgmar Mall to Clearfork, a new mixed-use residential, office and retail development built on part of the Edwards Ranch. Cassco, the development arm of the Edwards Ranch, built the project with the nation’s largest shopping center company, Simon Property Group.

The Shops at Clearfork is southwest of downtown Fort Worth. New stores there include the first Louis Vuitton store in Fort Worth and several others that haven’t been in the market: furniture retailer Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams, Burberry, Tiffany & Co., Kendra Scott and Tory Burch.