I work right across the Tollway from Willow Bend, and I regularly walk to that mall for lunch. There was one time that was really convenient: sick and tired of

I work right across the Tollway from Willow Bend, and I regularly walk to that mall for lunch. There was one time that was really convenient: sick and tired of Lyft drivers using Apple Maps consistently going to the wrong location when attempting to pick me up at home, I went into the Apple Store at lunch, hopped on an iPad, and looked up my address. Sure, enough. It was in the right place. So I submitted a change request to put it where it's supposed to be. They eventually fixed it, but it took months, and by the time they did fix it, Lyft had already banned their drivers from using Apple Maps. Also, Willow Bend had the first Apple Store in Dallas, and for a few years, it was the only thing that mall had going for it as the original "upscale" concept of the mall flopped. What's really going to sting, though, is losing Stonebriar. Stonebriar is really far away from Dallas... I grew up a little bit north of where the Galleria is (closer, actually, to what used to be Prestonwood), and when Stonebriar first opened, going all the way up to Frisco of all places felt like a massive journey. I've been desensitized to it since, but that's still a pretty long trek. Of course, when I was a kid, development completely ended just north of Legacy (and in parts of Plano, just north of Parker), and everything in sight of 121 was farmland, so every time I go to Stonebriar I'm going someplace that used to be a no man's land when I was little. How things have changed... And from my personal experience going to the Galleria after work, the traffic turns into a nightmare at the drop of a hat. During rush hour, the southbound Tollway is completely clear until just before Keller Springs, and then the traffic becomes bumper-to-bumper until way past 635.