La Palmera Mall will be open Dec. 23 until 11 p.m. They will also be open on Christmas Eve from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — From the parking lot to the food court, people flocked to La Palmera Mall to take care of their last-minute shopping on Friday.
Jose Jiménez from El Paso is spending his first Christmas away from home. He came to the mall to see what he could find for his new friends in town.
“I really wanted to do something big coming here. I should’ve done it earlier, dude! There’s barely anything. But at the end of the day, you still find some good things here. I found cologne and a couple of jackets,” Jiménez said.
Lush Cosmetics associate Addy Mears has worked at the mall for a few years now as a seasonal worker. Every year around this time, she said things get busy.
“Honestly, there’s been …