Highland Mall

Highland Mall seems to be like a mall that was thriving then the boom died. This place is currently like an abandoned ghost town. You can get great food court food from this mall but that is about it. Austin Community College bought out the mall in order to get more space. Give it about 1.5 years from now, the mall will be thriving again!

Highland Mall is..an experience. Their mall is very vacant and stores are closing by the minute. I only would go if I needed to get something really quick from Macy's or Dillard's but those have both shut down. Highland Mall is pretty shady and there are always teenagers just loitering around. I would suggest just driving further and going to Barton Creek if you want more variety of stores.

I'm from out of town so when I first pulled into the parking lot I thought that Google Maps had screwed up. But, I kept driving thinking that maybe I was just at the back of the mall. After the third abandoned store I began to lose hope. The only thing that didn't look like a clip from some post-apocalypse movie was a completely out of place college campus. I kept looking for signs of construction or remodel or at least something saying that they were in the process of moving to a new location. It's a pretty big mall and looks like it was in great shape and thriving at some point but it's little more than a ghost town now.

Great place to go to school, the mall is totally closed since 2015. Austin community college will eventually take over a large portion and convert it into a beautiful campus. The part that is completed already is beautiful!

The mall is being renovated by Austin Community College. Many of the areas are open and have been in use for a couple of years. It's still a great place to learn and to walk through!

Is it sad that I'm giving Highland Mall a 5 star rating because I feel sorry for it? It used to be a thriving mall when I moved here 14 years ago. I used to work in Sanrio Surprises (they have now moved to Lake Line Mall). I have a lot of good memories here and it's not a BAD mall, it's just not in a good location so no one wants to put their store in there. It's soon going to become a ACC campus, so it doesn't really matter what stores are in there anyways.

I feel so bad for this place. It seemed like a place that was once a thriving, cool place to be; but now, it's half empty and out dated. I went into the GNC, and across there is a zumba fitness (those people were having so much fun in there!) I had "Sauced" at the sad little almost not there food court. The most attractive thing was the carnival in the parking lot. I don't know if that is owned/ran by the mall or not, but the blinking lights are what attracted me to the place.

Great visit to visit. Loved it but not as much to give a 5 star, because it was quite hot to enjoy the outdoors at this time of the year. I would have been better if Austin has LA weather. The view of the city was great.