| Location | Fort Myers, Florida, U.S. |
|---|---|
| Address | 4125 Cleveland Ave. |
| Opening date | 1965 |
| Developer | George Sanders |
| Management | Simon Property Group |
| No. of stores and services | 160 |
| No. of anchor tenants | 5 |
| Total retail floor area | 1,051,000 square feet[1] |
| No. of floors | 1 |
Edison Mall is an enclosed, super-regional shopping mall in Fort Myers, Florida. The mall opened in 1965 with J.C. Penney and Sears, making it the first mall to contain both stores. It was expanded in 2007. Owned by Simon Property Group, the mall also includes two Macy's stores and a Dillard's, with more than 160 stores and a lifestyle center section.
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George Sanders developed the Edison Mall, which opened in 1965 on US-41 at Colonial Boulevard on the south side of Fort Myers. It was the first mall in the United States to feature rival chains J.C. Penney and Sears as its anchor stores;[2] Maas Brothers was a third anchor. At the time, US-41 was only two lanes wide, and the only other businesses near the mall were a Publix supermarket and a drive-in theater,[3] now the site of a Kmart store. Sanders sold the mall to Aster Realty in 1979.[4]
Additions to the mall included Burdines and J. W. Robinson's, later Maison Blanche, which sold its store and six others in Florida to Dillard's in 1991.[5] Also in 1991, Burdines moved its women's clothing into the former Maas Brothers building, while retaining men's clothing and home goods at the original location.[6] A 1998 renovation to Edison Mall added skylights in the center court.
Along with the rest of the Burdines chain, the two locations at Edison Mall were renamed Burdine's-Macy's in 2003, dropping the Burdine's name two years later.[7] In 2005, Simon announced a further renovation of the mall, which would add an outdoor lifestyle center wing and renovate the interior.[8]