The Tampa Bay Center is a shopping center located in Tampa, Florida, across the street from the Tampa Stadium. This mall was developed by Rouse Properties. When opened on 5 August 1976, 877,000 square feet (81,500 m 2 ) The Tampa Bay Center is Tampa's fourth largest mall and operated until 2001, when most tenants moved to the nearby International Plaza. The mall is a two-story building that has an anchor at each end, plus one in the middle of the mall: Burdines on the east side, Montgomery Ward in the middle, and Sears on the west side.
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Penampilan
The main corridor of the Tampa Bay Center is sunny, most of the roof is actually built with skylights; a sunny and sunny day outdoors means a bright and sunny day in a room that is considered an inviting feature as many malls are built with declining ceilings and end in darker colors. The mall features brightly lit truss ceilings above the corridors, brown floor tiles, fountains on the ground floor, and trees that are intermittently planted on the floor below the main corridor, growing upwards toward the skylights. The open and cool interior is further magnified by what is considered one of the most important trademarks in the mall, a glass elevator located in the center of the mall. The North Side parking lot has an unusual-to-flat-mid-Florida slope for that which means that the entrance to the mall on the side of the building is on the second floor, leading directly to the food court, which opened in 1987.
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Movies
This mall features a cinema with two screens from start to closing on February 28, 1990. The final movies shown are Roger and Me and Stella.
Montgomery Ward
Due to the success of the mall, the third anchor, Montgomery Ward was proposed in November 1977. Opened in 1979 on the south side of the mall.
Reject and close
In 1994 the mall management was accused of racism to close early during the Florida Classics college football game between FAMU and Bethune Cookman, the two black history universities. Then Montgomery Ward closed in 1999, and Burdines soon followed after, moved to the new Citrus Park Town Center center in northwest Tampa. The Tampa Bay Center survived with only Sears, but then International Plaza opened nearby in 2001. International Plaza had lured Dillard from WestShore Plaza, and in early 2002, Sears moved to the old Dillard location. Tampa Bay Center closed completely after that.
New owner and disassembly
Mall was purchased by Malcolm Glazer and his family for $ 22.8 million in cash on December 31, 2002 to pave the way for a training facility for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. It was demolished in 2005. The only rest of the mall is a big part of the parking lot. The HARTline bus terminal was moved to the southwestern part of the property in 2007, known as the West Tampa Transfer Center .
Former anchor store
- Burdines (moved to Westfield Citrus Park in 1999)
- Montgomery Ward (closed in 1999)
- Sears (moved to WestShore Plaza in 2001)
References
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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