Westfield Broward
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Location | Plantation, Florida |
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Opening date | 1978 |
Developer | Arvida Corp., Homart Development Company, and Federated Department Stores, Inc. |
Management | Westfield Group |
Owner | Westfield Group GM Pension Trusts |
Architect | RTKL Associates, Inc. |
No. of stores and services | 87 [1] |
No. of anchor tenants | 4 (3 open, 1 vacant) |
Total retail floor area | 1,000,000 square feet (93,000 m2) |
No. of floors | 1 (2 in anchors) |
Website | [2] |
Westfield Broward (previously known as the Broward Mall) is a shopping mall in Plantation, Florida.
History[]
The mall was opened in 1978, with the name Broward Mall.
It was with a Burdines store as its anchor. Popular department stores and anchors including Dillard's, JCPenney, Macy's and Regal Cinemas.[1]
The mall is owned by the Westfield Group, which acquired it in 2007 from SPG-FCM Ventures, a 50/50 joint venture between an entity owned by Simon Property Group and funds managed by Farallon Capital Management; SPG-FCM Ventures had acquired the previous owner, Mills Corporation, earlier that year.[2]
Mills had acquired it from Cadillac Fairview Corporation of Toronto in 2003.[3]
In February 28, 2013 it was announced a 12-screen Regal Cinemas was opened in the mall on December 2013.[4]
In 2015, Sears Holdings spun off 235 of its properties, including the Sears at Westfield Broward, into Seritage Growth Properties.[5]
In 2017 the size of the Sears store was reduced by half and other shops were opened in the space, including Noire the Nail Bar; the Sears store closed in 2018.[6] The first and the second floor of the former Sears is expected to become Powerhouse Gym and Game Time.
See also[]
References[]
- ^ "South Florida shopping malls, then and now". Sun-Sentinel.com. Retrieved 13 October 2018.
- ^ "Press release: Westfield buys two U.S. shopping centres". Westfield via Reuters. August 10, 2007.
- ^ Brenner, Elsa (December 15, 2002). "Galleria to Be Sold and Spruced". The New York Times.
- ^ "Movie theater coming to Westfield Broward mall". sun-sentinel.com. Archived from the original on 29 May 2013. Retrieved 25 April 2018.
- ^ "At Westfield Broward Mall | Seritage".
- ^ Huriash, Lisa J. (July 11, 2018). "Goodbye, Sears. Hello bowling alley at Westfield Broward Mall?". Sun-Sentinel.com.
External links[]
- Shopping malls established in 1978
- Shopping malls in Broward County, Florida
- Westfield Group
- Plantation, Florida
- 1978 establishments in Florida