Sakowitz Department Store At 5000 Westheimer Rd.

[ssullivan]

It was a pretty well known store in the area and very successful for many years. However, in the late 1970s/early 1980s they went on a building binge and rapidly expanded with new locations in Houston and across Texas. I think they even ventured out into some surrounding states like New Mexico. This was about the same time Foley's began to expand beyond the Houston market. Eventually the over expansion and poor sales caught up with them, and the company filed for bankruptcy. The downtown store was closed about 1985. I remember going to the going out of business sale for it with my mother. They held on for several more years but never really could recover. Finally, the last store, on Westheimer at Post Oak where the center with Barnes & Noble, CompUSA, and Old Navy is, was closed about 1990. The one remnant of the former department store is Sakowitz furs, located on Post Oak at Westheimer. It still has the same logo that the department store used.