Mizner Park
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 Plaza Real, Mizner's main street |
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| Location | Boca Raton, Florida United States |
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| Coordinates | 26°21′17″N 80°05′07″W / 26.354651°N 80.085233°WCoordinates: 26°21′17″N 80°05′07″W / 26.354651°N 80.085233°W |
| Address | 327 Plaza Real |
| Opening date | January 11, 1991 |
| Developer | Crocker Partners |
| Owner | General Growth Properties |
| Architect | Cooper Carry |
| No. of stores and services | 40+ |
| No. of anchor tenants | 3 |
| Total retail floor area | 398,000 square feet (37,000 m2) |
| Parking | On-street, 2,500 parking garage spaces |
| No. of floors | 1 (retail) |
| Website | Official website |
Mizner Park is an upscale lifestyle center located in downtown Boca Raton, Florida. Besides upscale shops, Mizner is composed of rental apartments and offices. The Centre for the Arts is a cultural center on the north end of the development, which is embodied by an amphitheater and the Boca Raton Museum of Art. The art museum, Robb & Stucky Interiors (formerly Jacobson's), and a Sunrise Cinema are the center's anchor stores. Cooper Carry designed the architecture of Mizner as a Mediterranean revival town center.
Previously, the site of Mizner Park was a conventional enclosed shopping center called the Boca Raton Mall, which opened in 1974.[1] Originally anchored by AMC Boca Mall 6, a Britt's Department Store and Jefferson Ward, the mall's viability had suffered from Town Center at Boca Raton's competition. The Boca Raton Community Redevelopment Agency established in 1980, played a significant role in conveying redevelopment of the site and to other regions of downtown. [1]
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.[2] To this day, a parking lot occupies the space.
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 Exterior of the Boca Mall shortly before its 1989 demolition. |
 The street median functions as a promenade |
 Art sculpture of an anthropomorphic pelican |
 Count de Hoernle Amphitheater at the Centre for the Arts |
[edit] References
- ^ Valley, Matthew. "The Remalling of America", National Real Estate Investor, 2002-05-01. Retrieved on 2007-04-20.
- ^ Wesley, Sandra. "What will downtown plan change in Boca Raton?", Boca Raton News, 1982-10-17. Retrieved on 2009-07-14.
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