sentences:  With a gross leasable area of , The Woodlands Mall is considered a super-regional mall by industry definitions.The Woodlands Mall is managed by Brookfield Properties Retail Group.Having grown from its initial roots as a resort-oriented master-planned community first begun in 1974, developer George P. Mitchell's The Woodlands began to rapidly grow with an influx of new families from Houston and other areas, and had also gained national prominence from the community being both host to the Shell Houston Open and home to the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion, which opened in 1990.