Sunshine Mall

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Sunshine Mall
Location Clearwater, FL, US
Address1200 Missouri Avenue
Opening dateSeptember 26, 1968
Closing date1998
DeveloperGambest Associates [1]
No. of stores and services72 [2]
No. of anchor tenants 2
Total retail floor area 310,000 square feet (29,000 m2) [1]
No. of floors1

Sunshine Mall was a single-level, enclosed shopping mall located in Clearwater, Florida, U.S. [3] It was anchored by Phar-Mor and Office Depot. [4] It was owned by New Haven, Connecticut based Fusco Property Management. [5]

History

The Sunshine Mall opened on September 26, 1968, with 175,000 square feet (16,300 m2) of mall space and a 135,000-square-foot (12,500 m2) J. C. Penney [6] as an anchor, which replaced a store in downtown Clearwater. [7] [8] The mall was the first enclosed shopping center in Pinellas County, Florida. [9]

It was at one time the largest climate-controlled mall on Florida's west coast. [10] It was also the first in the Southern United States to offer valet parking. [2]

The mall also featured a Trans-Lux single screen theater, Pantry Pride, SupeRx Drugs, and McCrory's. [11] [12] [13] [14] A second anchor, J Byrons, was confirmed in 1970. [15] The theater was "twinned" into a two-screen theater in 1977, reopening in December; the theater had expanded to 5 screens by the time of closing. [16] Pantry Pride closed at the mall in February 1979, and was replaced by Mr C's Warehouse Grocery by late 1979. [17]

Office Depot opened in the former Sports Unlimited space in 1990. [4] J Byrons closed at the mall in 1991, to be replaced by Phar-Mor, which was relocating from a nearby plaza. [18] By July 1994, McCrory's had closed its doors and J. C. Penney had announced intentions to leave by January, and the mall had stopped signing new leases for interior tenants, keeping existing tenants on month-to-month leases. [19] A US$10 million rebuild of the mall was announced in 1995, which was to transform the mall into a strip mall power center, retaining an interior corridor, however this never came to pass. [5] The mall was demolished beginning in July 1998 by Terra Excavating Inc of Largo, FL in order to make way for a 600-apartment complex. [20] [21]

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