Sooner Mall

This is a fairly no-​frills, utilitarian mall. For a town like Norman, it serves its purpose well as long as your needs are basic (JC Penny or Dillard’s, as well as a few mall staples) but if you want anything beyond that it’s time for a trip up into OKC.
And it’ll always be Sooner Fashion Mall to me.

This is a great small town mall.
It is not so big where you end up walking miles, and there are all the great quality stores. Including, Victoria’s Secret, Charlotte Russe, Pennys, Old Navy, etc. It is clean and well maintained as well.
Also, park around the back between Sears and Macy’s. There is an entrance right there and you can park almost at the door every time.

Let’s just get right to it: it’s a pretty pathetic mall. I mean, when two of your three anchor stores are Sears and JC Penney’s, then you can’t really expect that you’re going to have a great shopping experience. The shopping selection is poor to average, and stores continue to close (Vanity is apparently gone at the end of the week and Gap is gone next month). The food court selection is dismal with Chick-​fil-​A being the best option… but that’s nixed if you’re visiting on a Sunday. There’s a nice play area for kids, but Quail has something similar with better stores, a larger food court, and a theater. Yes, it’s a college town but the college students can and do find better pretty much anywhere else… including Campus Corner. Sooner is quickly becoming a ghost town and I’ve met several mall employees who’ve shared similar sentiments and expressed how it just needs to be razed and have a fresh start.
My surprise came when I was talking with a woman while sitting in the play area who couldn’t believe Gap was closing because the mall was «SOOO popular!!»…said while the mall was completely dead during the holiday season to the point you could swear you heard crickets. Just drive to the city and have a better shopping experience.

Let’s start with the negatives. If you have been to Quail or Penn, you know what great malls they are. The problem here is that Sooner Mall is almost all clothing, shoe and department stores. There is really nothing here for the guys or kids unless they need clothes.
The restaurant selection is also below average.
With that said, it is very clean, safe and relaxing to shop at. The stores are up and down on service (Journeys and Finish Line are bad, Gap and Old Navy are great).
The kids play area is fantastic and they have free quick wi-​fi. The restrooms are also great. Parking is great if you know where to look outside of Christmas season.
It’s not a great mall but it is a good one.

Small mall but they have my favorite stores, Bath & Body Works, Express and Claire… Small food court and not a lit of choices to eat…

I don’t know why people are complaining about this mall… it’s in a college town. What do they expect?
This mall has all the basics needed for the typical college student — Forever 21, Victoria’s Secret, Express, etc.

I haven’t been to many malls out here in this area but I’ve been told there are better. Sooner Mall is small. It has a lot of small shops and the food court is pretty small as well. It’s clean and has a lot of seating areas and a play zone for the kiddos to enjoy outside of the children’s place and near the bathrooms (they have a family bathroom and nursing room also so that’s a plus for new moms) and the restrooms are always clean which is a plus.
They have giveaway here often and if you sign up online for their rewards emails (free) you may get a discount or cash back on your first purchase. They also have talent scouts here from time to time.
Overall it’s a solid 3 star mall. I would like to visit a few others but I felt after 3 or 4 trips here I was pretty confident in writing this review and feel it’s a fair reflection of what you will come to find here.
Their Old Navy and Victoria’s Secret stores are well stocked and large compared to other shops. And that’s great because I love both of them.

The other reviewers aren’t kidding when they say this mall is TINY! My cuzzo forewarned me that this mall isn’t the kind where people come to hang out, but it has most of the essentials you’d need — Victoria’s Secret, Charlotte Russe, Forever 21, Express, etc, as well as department stores.
Not much else to say, except I thought it was cool (and appropriate) that they have tornado shelters inside the mall and their bathrooms are cool. Inside every stall had a little seat with a belt to buckle in babies/​small children. There was even a closed lounge for mothers to breast feed their babies. I’ve never seen that before.

It is a small mall. but we come here becaise it is the nearest one for us and mainly because we have a toddler. This mall is better for parents of toddlers than the regular shopper. There is a play area and restroom nearby for toddlers and baby changing/​nursing area and a good selection of kids clothing stores like gap, gymboree, old navy, childrens,. Most of the kods. store are on the same wing as the play area so it is convenient when your spouse calls you.
haha… We drive north to Penn Square Mall for our clothes since there are more choices but I can shop for our child here while she plays around the play area with hubby. haha.

Don’t park your car here over night. Mine was towed and cost me $ 200 to get out of impound. They could have least put up some no over night parking signs up on their parking lot lights or something

It’s just a mall. Convenient if you live in Norman — but not a mall I would travel to. To be fair — I am not a mall lover in general — and I only came to this one to eat at El Chico — but hey — I came — I ate — I moved on. The mall had one thing I highly recommend: People watching.

Is this the worst mall I’ve been too? Not at all. Having the closet mall near me for the last five years be nick named «devil Dog» mall, I’ll take this place. I’ll take the young college kids over Marines hitting on you every chance they get.
This mall lacks shoe stores. I was on a mission to find a pair of boot, coming from california ALL my shoes are SANDALS. Realizing my wardrobe only consisted of tanks, sandals, and shorts, and the cool weather coming, I needed to get some winter gear.
This mall does have my favorite stores, AE, Express, Pac Sun, VS. And I found a few things, but this mall just lacks other quality stores. But it is better then the mall I had to shop at for the last 5 years.
Will I go back? Yes. Will I want to go back? No, I hate shopping, I prefer to get stuff off the internet.
ALSO, they do not have a Bare Escentuals make up counter and that would be my only reason o visit this place on the daily. FIX THAT!!!

When the BF has to study for an exam or go to a meeting on campus, I end up taking a stroll to Sooner Mall. Like John said… There are better malls in OKC, but if you have nothing else to do, why not check this place out?
Sooner Mall does pale in comparison to Quail Springs & Penn Square because there isn’t much variety, but I like that they have a Forever 21. That is my fast fashion staple and I recently found out it’s the only one in Oklahoma– that is until they open the megatron one up in Penn Square. Be thankful that you live in Norman and not by the poor Crossroads Mall.

A mall that just falls short of average. The mall does not seem to be in a dying condition but it is not in great shape either. There are lots of offbeat shops here, which often signals a dying mall but many vacancies were filled.
Nothing really worth going into though. I am sure there are better malls in the metro area then subpar of a whole lot of nothing.

there are better malls in OKC. good enough for those that live south, but not worth the drive for those in the north. the store selection is not that great. the sears is the smallest I have ever seen. food court is actually pretty decent however.

In one word: dislike.
In two words: dislike intensely
In three… oh, hell… Why don’t I just go to town?
This is the only mall in Norman, and it barely meets the minimum standards of mallness. It’s not very big, and consequently its selection is poor. Regardless, it’s ALWAYS crowded.
Maybe it’s a sign of early dementia, but I go back on occasion only to get there and then remember that I never leave with a purchase. What this mall needs is some investment, especially when it stays so busy. I mean, they need to add a new wing or build a new level on top of the existing mall to get more variety in there, plus add a parking garage to accommodate more people.
Although Penn Square is quite chic in comparison to Sooner Mall, it’s not at all convenient from Norman. Likewise, I can’t imagine someone living in central OKC would want to make the road trip to this mall because it is so lacking.
I guess it’s a functional place at best, and provides a fix if you need to go shopping and don’t want to drive to OKC. But in the end, it’s nothing special.

The sooner mall is great because it has a super cool childrens play area that my 2 year old loves. The mall has family restrooms conveniently located right next to the play area that have toddler sized potties and are plenty big enough to wheel your giant stroller inside. My favorite part about the bathroom area is the mothers nursing lounge! I wish more places had nursing areas like the sooner mall.