Tyrone Square Mall
27°47′38″N 82°44′00″W / 27.793818°N 82.73344°W
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| Location | Total retail floor area 960,215 square feet (89,206.9 square meters)[1] | |
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| No. of floors | 1 (2 in Dillard's, JCPenney, and Macy's) | |
| Public transit access |  PSTA bus: 5, 7, 18, 20, 22, 23, 38, 62, 68, 73, 75, 79 | |
| Website | www | |
Tyrone Square (also referred to as Tyrone Square Mall) is an enclosed
History
Tyrone Square's first anchor,
Maas Brothers opened on August 17, 1972 and it was their third store to be located in a shopping mall (their first and second mall stores were at Edison Mall and WestShore Plaza, respectively).[4]
The mall itself was officially opened on October 5, 1972.
Robinson's of Florida was the last anchor to open, which debuted on September 4, 1973. Robinson's sold its entire Florida division to Maison Blanche, a Louisiana-based department store, in 1987. By 1991, Maison Blanche had sold its Tyrone Square location and six others on the Gulf Coast of Florida to Dillard's who still operates at the mall today.[7][8]
Also 1991, Maas Brothers was merged with its former rival
Mall expansion in 1998 brought a
The long-standing Gap closed in 2015, with a toys and games store taking its place. In 2015, Sears Holdings spun off 235 of its properties, including the Sears at Tyrone Square Mall, into Seritage Growth Properties.[13] The Cobb Tyrone Luxury 10 Theatres (now CMX Cinemas Tyrone Luxury 10) opened in 2016, with 10 theaters and 1,200 seats. It is located in an adjacent yet detached building near JCPenney.
On November 16, 2016, Sears announced that it would close its location on January 28, 2017 because of a redevelopment project by Seritage that brought in
References
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- ^ "St. Petersburg Times - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com. Retrieved 2015-12-22.
- ^ ISBN 978-1-4671-1473-8.
- ^ Smith, Katherine Snow (24 Nov 2012). "40 years later, it's still all "under one roof"". Tampa Bay Times. Retrieved 15 September 2022.
- ^ "New JCPenney St. Petersburg Store opens Wednesday at 10 a.m." Tampa Bay Times. 2 January 1973. Retrieved 15 September 2022.
- ^ "Former Robinson's executives face job market with few jobs". pqasb.pqarchiver.com. Retrieved 2015-12-22.
- ^ "Daytona Beach Sunday News-Journal - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com. Retrieved 2015-12-22.
- ^ "Burdines". The Department Store Museum. Retrieved 30 March 2018.
- ^ Sznajderman, Michael (8 August 1991). "Montgomery Ward to abandon store site in St. Petersburg". Newspapers.com. The Tampa Tribune. Retrieved 20 August 2022.
- ^ "Sarasota Herald-Tribune - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com. Retrieved 2015-12-22.
- ^ "Tyrone food court a renovation appetizer". pqasb.pqarchiver.com. Retrieved 2015-12-22.
- ^ "At Tyrone Square Mall | Seritage". seritage.com.
- ^ "Sears laying off 126 in January as it pulls out of Tyrone Square Mall - Tampa Bay Times". www.tampabay.com. Retrieved 2016-11-10.