NorthPark gold will no longer be accepted at stores after July 10

DALLAS — Time to dig up that buried treasure out of your bedside desk and get to dropping some coin, Dallas. 

Sunday, July 10, is the ultimate day when stores at Dallas’ NorthPark Center will settle for the procuring middle’s longstanding and beloved NorthPark Gold Gift Coins.

First launched in 1969, the procuring center-specific foreign money — colloquially referred to easily as “NorthPark gold” — has for 53 years been a fixture in North Texas gift-giving, notably throughout vacation and commencement season. 

Sold in values of $5, $10, $20, $50 and $100, the cash had been famend for his or her versatility, as they might be used at any of the 200-plus retailers inside the retail vacation spot’s partitions.

But, earlier this yr, NorthPark’s own website announced that it could be “temporarily suspending” the sale of its gold present cash as of May 20. That change, NorthPark mentioned, got here because of the procuring middle’s companions at Comerica Bank no longer boasting a system in a position to course of the transaction of the bodily cash.

“Until a new system is established for the physical coins,” NorthPark’s assertion on the matter says, the procuring middle would be pressured to cease including extra cash into circulation.

While customers who wish to expertise the fun of handing a gold coin over-the-counter in change for items at any NorthPark retailer are operating out of time to expertise that rush, NorthPark’s concierge desk has confirmed it will proceed to honor the cash’ values in perpetuity. Shoppers will simply have to move to the concierge desk and change their cash for a NorthPark-branded American Express present card of the identical worth, is all. (The present playing cards are additionally accepted at all NorthPark retailers — and, as a result of they’re American Express playing cards, anyplace else the place that model of bank cards is accepted, too.)  

Of course, if Dallas customers are too nostalgic to relinquish their round little golden relics, they’ll simply hold hanging onto their gold in hopes of the procuring middle bringing the favored promotion again to life at some level sooner or later.

Because, whereas there’s no date set for an eventual return, a comeback someplace down the road is NorthPark Center’s said intention for its gold:

“We apologize for any inconvenience,” its web site says, “and [we] hope to continue the NorthPark Gold Gift Coin program in the future.”