The Avenues (shopping mall)
Total retail floor area 1,112,428 sq ft (103,347.9 m2)[2] | | |
No. of floors | 2 (3 in Parking Garage) | |
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Website | The Avenues |
The Avenues (also referred to and often known as Avenues Mall) is a two-level
.History
The mall opened on September 26, 1990 with
A major renovation in 2005 featured a new entrance with stained glass, neutral paint colors to complement Italian limestone on the ground floor, replacing restrooms, ceilings, lighting, benches, lounge chairs, modernizing the glass elevator, and a new children's play area. Nearly $10.5 million was spent and the changes were completed in April.[5]
On August 2, 2006, Saks Incorporated announced an agreement to sell its Parisian specialty department store business to Belk, Inc.[6] Shortly thereafter, the Avenues Parisian store was briefly closed and converted into the men's and children's store, with the women's departments staying in the existing store, where Belk consolidated all of its departments in February 2010.[7]
Since 2010, the mall has increasingly faced struggles due to marginalization from
On November 18, 2010, Forever 21 opened its doors in the location formerly occupied by the Belk Men and Kids store. This is Forever 21's second-largest location in the country and largest in the entire state of Florida, at 116,000 square feet (at the time, the space represented 8.8% of the mall's 1.1 million square feet).[8]
H&M opened a two-story store at the mall on September 6, 2012.[9]
In early 2014, Buffalo Wild Wings opened on the second floor.[10]
On August 31, 2019, Sears announced that it would be closing this location as part of a plan to close 85 stores nationwide. The store closed in December 2019.[11]
Current anchor stores
- Dillard's 210,104 sq ft (19,519.3 m2)
- Forever 21 116,298 sq ft (10,804.4 m2)
- JCPenney123,029 sq ft (11,429.8 m2)
- Belk 181,460 sq ft (16,858 m2)
- Furniture Source 125,330 sq ft (11,644 m2)
Former anchor stores
- Maison Blanche (became Gayfers)
- Gayfers (became Belk)
- Parisian(became Belk Men's, Children's and Home)
- Belk Men's, Children's and Home (became Forever 21)
- Sears 125,330 sq ft (11,644 m2) (now Furniture Source)
References
- ^ "About The Avenues". Simon Property Group. Retrieved 2011-03-03.
- ^ "The Avenues". Simon Property Group. Retrieved 2011-03-03.
- ^ "ULI Market Profiles: North America". 1995.
- ^ Flaisig, Liz (March 4, 2004). "New retailers moving in to The Avenues". Jacksonville Business Journal.
- ^ Flaisig, Liz (April 8, 2005). "Simon finishes $10 million renovation of The Avenues". Jacksonville Business Journal.
- Saks Incorporated. Aug 2, 2006.
- ^ "Forever 21 leases 116,000 square feet at Avenues mall".
- ^ Conte, Christian (November 26, 2010). "Forever 21 leases 116,000 square feet at Avenues mall". American City Business Journals.
- ^ "H&M retail store opens at Avenues Mall".
- ^ "Dining Notes: Buffalo Wild Wings opens at The Avenues".
- ^ Tyko, Kelly (August 31, 2019). "Kmart, Sears store closings: More locations to shutter by end of 2019". USA Today. Retrieved August 31, 2019.