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| Location | Coral Springs,Florida, United States |
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| Coordinates | 26°14′29″N80°14′58″W / 26.2412525°N 80.2493377°W /26.2412525; -80.2493377 |
| Address | 9469 WestAtlantic Boulevard |
| Opening date | October 3, 1984; 41 years ago (October 3, 1984)[1] |
| Developer | Edward J. DeBartolo Corp. |
| Management | Simon Property Group, Inc. |
| Owner | Simon Property Group, Inc. (97.2%) |
| Stores and services | 120[2] |
| Anchor tenants | 5 (4 open, 1 vacant) |
| Floor area | 944,159 square feet (87,715 m2)[2] |
| Floors | 1 (2 in JCPenney, Kohl's, Macy's Men, Children, & Home, and former Sears) |
| Parking | 8,618 |
| Website | www |
Coral Square, often referred to asCoral Square Mall, is a regional enclosedshopping mall located northwest ofFort Lauderdale inCoral Springs,Florida, on the northeast corner ofAtlantic Boulevard andUniversity Drive; it opened in 1984. The mall features 120 retailers, includingJCPenney,Kohl's and 2Macy's 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 westernBroward County (the first wasBroward Mall in 1978), it is currently managed bySimon Property Group, which owns 97.2%, having fallen to Simon following the 1996 merger of Simon and DeBartolo Realty into Simon DeBartolo Group.
The mall opened on October 3, 1984 with four anchor stores: two Miami-based chains,Burdines andJordan Marsh (the latter debuted a year later and both today operate as Macy's) along with New York-basedLord & Taylor (now Kohl's) and national retailerJCPenney. Initially, the second of its kind (a single level center with three bi-level anchors) in Broward County (the first wasPompano Fashion Square 15 years earlier, followed byPembroke Lakes Mall 8 years later), the mall is almost identical toBoynton Beach Mall andThe Florida Mall with itsspace frame ceiling, similar to other DeBartolo properties.
Room existed for a fifth future anchor, and in 1989,Sears joined making Coral Square the second mall in Broward with fiveanchor stores. No other mall countywide housed five anchors at that time except forThe Galleria at Fort Lauderdale, though eventually Pembroke Lakes would from 1995-1997.
Shortly after, department store consolidations began to impact the anchor line-up. In 1991, Lord & Taylor was replaced byMervyn's and Burdines converted Jordan Marsh into a men, children and home store. The 1997 withdrawal of Mervyn's led toDillard's taking over, lasting until 2010 and becomingKohl's in 2011.
The mall was renovated in 1995, 2008 and 2022, but never expanded aside from the aforementioned addition of Sears. Meanwhile, Burdines merged withMacy's 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.[3] 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, thus bringing the mall back to its original four anchor pad configuration.[4] A contract withRound 1 Entertainment was pending as well.[5]
| Coral Square anchor timeline | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Decade | 1980s | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Year | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| Anchor #1 (south/center) | Burdines (September 1984 to March 2005) | Macy's Ladies Apparel (from March 2005) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Anchor #2 (east) | Lord & Taylor (October 1984 to January 1991) | Mervyn's (July 1991 to April 1997) | Dillard's (October 1997 to December 2010) | Kohl's (from September 2011) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Anchor #3 (northwest) | JCPenney (from October 1984) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Anchor #4 (west) | Jordan Marsh (August 1985 to October 1991) | Burdines Men, Children & Home (October 1991 to March 2005) | Macy's Men, Children & Home (from March 2005) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Anchor #5 (northeast) | Sears (from November 1989 to April 2020) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||