Baybrook Mall has been a staple of the Clear Lake area for at least 25 years. As the area around it has grown, it has grown to accomodate. The five anchor department stores are Dillard's (two of them, a men's and a HUGE women's - used to be a Macy's), Sears, Mervyn's, Montgomery Ward's (which is currently in the stages of going out of business). A few years ago, the mall underwent a major renovation, as they were trying to make the mall more "upscale" and gave the mall a facelift. The inside of the mall is now lit by huge skylights (sometimes sunglasses are almost needed), and with the summer Houston heat, it can get pretty warm in there. It's a good size (meaning easy to cover in less than a day), not too big like many of the newer malls.
The mall itself is shaped like a 8 (except one corner of the 8 branches a little), with the Food Court in the center. On each of the corners lies a major department store, and at the "branch," there are two. The mall has all kinds of stores: Gap, Baby Gap, Warner Bros store, Disney store, Ann Taylor, Casual Corner, The Limited, Express, Victoria's Secret, Body Shop, Bath & Body Works, Gingiss formal wear, sports stores, gadget stores, many shoe stores, book & media stores, 3 or 4 major jewelry stores, a leather store, and many other specialty stores. The food court has the typical mall stuff (a pizza place, a Chinese place, a Taco Bell, a candy store, a Thirsty's, Great American Cookie Co., a Wendy's, etc.)
It's a good "cross-section" mall, that offers plenty of parking (except maybe at Christmas) and many other stores surrounding it and across the street (Target, Kmart, Barnes & Noble, Marshall's, Ross Dress-for-Less, Ethan Allen, Krause's, Circuit City) and many restaurants nearby (Bennigan's, Churasco's, McD's, Burger King, La Madeleine, Marie Callender's).