Mizner Park

Mizner Park

Plaza Real, Mizner's main street
Location Boca Raton, Florida, U.S.
Coordinates 26°21′17″N 80°05′07″W / 26.354651°N 80.085233°W / 26.354651; -80.085233Coordinates: 26°21′17″N 80°05′07″W / 26.354651°N 80.085233°W / 26.354651; -80.085233
Address 327 Plaza Real
Opening date January 11, 1991
Developer Crocker Partners,
L. L. C.
Management General Growth Properties, Inc.
Owner General Growth Properties, Inc.
Architect Cooper Carry & Associates, Inc.
No. of stores and services 40+
No. of anchor tenants 2
Total retail floor area 398,000 square feet (37,000 m2)
No. of floors 1
Website miznerpark.com

Mizner Park is a lifestyle center in downtown Boca Raton, Florida. The center is home to rated eateries Max's Grille, Racks Downtown Eatery + Tavern, Yard House, Villagio's, and Uncle Julio's. The Centre for the Arts at Mizner Park is located on the north end of the development, which includes an amphitheater, the Boca Raton Museum of Art and Carré d'artistes, part of an international network featuring over 600 emerging artists. Cooper Carry designed Mizner as a classical Mediterranean revival town center. Lord & Taylor announced construction in fall of 2011 and had its opening in the summer of 2013.

History

Previously, the site of Mizner Park was a conventional enclosed shopping center called Boca Mall, which opened in 1974.[1] Boca Mall was originally anchored by Britt's and Jefferson Ward. The former closed in 1982 and was temporarily occupied by IBM offices until 1985, when it was converted to Levitz Furniture.[2] In 1989, Levitz relocated and Jefferson Ward closed. The colloquial term dive bar may have entered widespread use as a result of a bar located in the mall in its final days .[3] The closure of these anchors led to the mall's demolition and redevelopment.[4]

Mizner Park opened in 1989, expanding in 1996 with a Jacobson's department store.[5] Jacobson's closed in July 2002 after the chain declared bankruptcy, and its location became Robb & Stucky Interiors in 2003.[6] After Robb & Stucky also declared bankruptcy, its store was closed as well.[7] The building was reconstructed for Lord & Taylor in 2013.[8]

Crocker Partners, the developer of Mizner originally intended for a similar project, the McNulty Building, to be built on a more compressed site at Federal Highway and Palmetto Park Road.[9]

It was home to the National Cartoon Museum From 1992-2002[10]

References

  1. ↑ Valley, Matthew (1 May 2002). "THE REMALLING OF AMERICA". National Real Estate Investor. Retrieved 20 April 2007.
  2. ↑ Stokes, Stephanie (28 March 1985). "Boca Raton mall lands second anchor store". Boca Raton news. Retrieved 10 July 2011.
  3. ↑ http://featured.blog.palmbeachpost.com/2016/05/26/was-this-boca-raton-dive-bar-one-of-the-first-in-the-united-states/
  4. ↑ Tompkins, Wayne; Carl Herzog (14 October 1988). "Boca Mall loses 5 stores, 2 to Village Market". Boca Raton News. Retrieved 10 July 2011.
  5. ↑ Heimlich, Cheryl Kane (25 November 1996). "Jacobson's pulls off Mizner Park opening without a hitch". South Florida Business Journal. Retrieved 24 May 2012.
  6. ↑ Bushouse, Kathy (28 March 2003). "Mizner Gets 2 New Top Stores". Orlando Sun-Sentinel. Retrieved 21 October 2013.
  7. ↑ King, Dale M. (8 June 2011). "Boca Raton losing two furniture stores to bankruptcy". The Boca Raton Tribune. Retrieved 21 October 2013.
  8. ↑ "Lord & Taylor to open in Mizner Park". The Real Deal. 11 October 2011. Retrieved 24 May 2012.
  9. ↑ Wesley, Sandra (17 October 1982). "What will downtown plan change in Boca Raton?". Boca Raton News. Retrieved 14 July 2009.
  10. ↑ National Cartoon Museum
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