TYLER — 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.
City 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.
