Lakeland Square Mall
Coordinates: 28°05′29″N 81°58′41″W / 28.091359°N 81.977932°W
.jpg) Entrance to Lakeland Square Mall, April 2017 | |
| Location | Lakeland, Florida |
|---|---|
| Opening date | 1988 |
| Developer | Edward J. DeBartolo Corporation and Homart Development Company[1] |
| Management | Brookfield Properties Retail Group |
| Owner | Brookfield Properties Retail Group |
| No. of stores and services | 90 |
| No. of anchor tenants | 6 (4 open, 2 vacant) |
| Total retail floor area | 890,000 sq ft (83,000 m2) |
| No. of floors | 1 |
| Parking | 4,500 |
| Website |
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Lakeland Square Mall is a shopping mall located on the northern side of Lakeland, Florida. It is one of two enclosed malls serving Polk County. It is the only shopping mall located off of I-4 between Tampa and Orlando, and it serves the populations of western Polk County.
The shopping mall has four anchor stores, including the Burlington Coat Factory, Dillard's, J. C. Penney, Sears, and Cinemark Theaters. When it opened, it had featured Mervyns and Sears, but also had Belk (now Burlington Coat Factory), with Maison Blanche opening a few months later.[3] Both the Mervyns and Maison Blanche stores became Dillard's; the former Mervyn's location was shuttered in 2012, with Dillard's consolidating to the former Maison Blanche.[4] The former Mervyns/Dillard's building was torn down in 2013 and replaced with a Sports Authority and movie theater.
The Sports Authority closed in 2016.
In January 2017, Macy's announced it would close its Lakeland Mall store as a part of a larger round of closings across the country.
Lakeland Square Mall has been the main upscale shopping center for Lakeland during the 1990s, but since 2005 it has lost Belk to the competing Lakeside Village, an open-air lifestyle center that opened on the south side of the city.[5]
References
- ↑ Kuhn, Brad (May 8, 1995). "New Mall Brings Developer Back Homart Teamed Up On Various Projects". Orlando Sentinel. ("Homart teamed up with DeBartolo again for Lakeland Square Mall, which opened in 1988.")
- ↑ "Lakeland Square Mall". Brookfield Properties Retail Group.
- ↑ "Lakeland Ledger - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com.
- ↑ KENNEDY, KYLE (February 20, 2012). "Dillard's to Close One Of Lakeland Mall Stores". The Ledger.
- ↑ MAREADY, JEREMY (October 30, 2005). ""Is This Town Big Enough for Two Malls?", The Ledger". The Ledger.
