Coral Square, often referred to as Coral Square Mall, is a regional enclosed

shopping mall A shopping mall (or simply mall) is a large indoor shopping center, usually Anchor tenant, anchored by department stores. The term ''mall'' originally meant pedestrian zone, a pedestrian promenade with shops along it, but in the late 1960s, i ...

located northwest of

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Coral Springs Coral Springs is a city in Broward County, Florida, United States. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 U.S. Census, the city had a population of 134,394. Approximately northwest of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Fort Lauderdale, it is a pri ...

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, on the northeast corner of Atlantic Boulevard and University Drive; it opened in 1984. The mall features 120 retailers, including

JCPenney Penney OpCo LLC , Trade name, doing business as JCPenney (colloquially Penney's and abbreviated JCP) is an American department store chain store, chain with 649 stores across 49 U.S. states and Puerto Rico. It is managed as part of the Catalys ...

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and 2

Macy's Macy's is an American department store chain founded in 1858 by Rowland Hussey Macy. The first store was located in Manhattan on Sixth Avenue between 13th and 14th Streets, south of the present-day flagship store at Herald Square on West 34 ...

locations as its anchors. Originally developed by a joint venture of Eddie Debartolo of DeBartolo Realty & JCP Realty, Inc. (a subsidiary of JCPenney) and the second mall in western

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(the first was Broward Mall in 1978), it is currently managed by

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, which owns 97.2%, having fallen to Simon following the 1996 merger of Simon and DeBartolo Realty into Simon DeBartolo Group.

History

The mall opened on October 3, 1984 with four anchor stores: two Miami-based chains, Burdines and Jordan Marsh (Jordan Marsh joined a year later), along with New York-based

Lord & Taylor Lord & Taylor was an American department store chain founded in 1826 by Samuel Lord. It had 86 full-line stores in the Northeastern United States at its peak in the 2000s, and 38 locations at the time of its liquidation in 2021. The Lord & Tay ...

and national retailer

. Initially, the second of its kind (a single level center with three bi-level anchors) in Broward County (the first was Pompano Fashion Square 15 years earlier), the mall is almost identical to Boynton Beach Mall and The Florida Mall with its

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ceiling, similar to other DeBartolo properties. Room existed for a fifth future anchor, and in 1989,

Sears Sears, Roebuck and Co., commonly known as Sears ( ), is an American chain of department stores and online retailer founded in 1892 by Richard Warren Sears and Alvah Curtis Roebuck and reincorporated in 1906 by Richard Sears and Julius Rosen ...

joined making Coral Square the second mall in Broward with five

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s. No other mall countywide housed five anchors at that time except for The Galleria at Fort Lauderdale, though eventually Pembroke Lakes Mall would in 1992, six years later. Shortly after, department store consolidations began to impact the anchor line-up. In 1991, Lord & Taylor was replaced by

Mervyn's Mervyn's was an American middle-scale department store chain based in Hayward, California, and founded by Mervin G. Morris (1920–2021). It carried national brands of clothing, footwear, bedding, bath products, furniture, jewelry, beauty product ...

and Burdines converted Jordan Marsh into a men, children and home store. The 1997 withdrawal of Mervyn's led to

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joining, until 2010.

joined in 2011. The mall was renovated in 1995, 2008 and 2022, but never expanded aside from the aforementioned addition of Sears. Meanwhile, Burdines merged with

in 2003, becoming a 2 store operation under the Macy's nameplate in 2005. On November 26, 2016, a shop owner shot and wounded an employee, then fatally turned the gun on himself. Coral Springs Fire Department took the wounded to a nearby hospital, where they were expected to be ok. The mall was closed for the morning then reopened later in the afternoon with heavily armed Coral Springs Police Officers. On February 6, 2020, it was announced that Sears would be closing as part of a plan to close 39 stores nationwide. The store closed in April 2020. A contract with Round 1 Entertainment was pending as well.

Anchors

Current Anchors

(1984–present) *

(2011–present) *

; 2 locations (2005–present)

Former Anchors

* Burdines; 2 locations: **Original store (1984-2005) **Men, Children & Home) (1991-2005) *

(1997-2010) * Jordan Marsh (1985-1991) *

(1984-1991) *

(1991-1997) *

(1989-2020)

Anchor timeline

References

External links

Coral Square official website
{{Broward County Malls Shopping malls in Broward County, Florida Shopping malls established in 1984 Simon Property Group Buildings and structures in Coral Springs, Florida 1984 establishments in Florida