Pembroke Lakes Mall


Pembroke Lakes Mall is an indoor shopping center located 14 miles north of Miami in the suburban community of Pembroke Pines at the corner of State Road 820 and State Road 823 in between Interstate 75 and Florida's Turnpike and was originally the third final Homart Development Company property. Owned and managed by General Growth Properties, the mall has on one floor and six anchors including JCPenney, 2 stores for both Macy's and Dillard's, Round One Entertainment and AMC Theatres which opened in 2017 on the west end of the mall. There is also a freestanding Target. As of 2018, Pembroke Lakes Mall is one of Miami's most popular and visited malls, thriving since its 1992 opening.

History

The mall opened on October 28, 1992, with space for six anchor stores, just like North Point Mall a year later. Upon opening, only four anchor spaces were occupied: two-story Burdines, JCPenney, and Sears stores and a one-level Mervyn's, in a similar fashion to Pompano Fashion Square. Pembroke Lakes Mall, are among the very few malls in the Miami area that has opened without a Jordan Marsh store because their Florida stores were disbanded before these malls were built. JCPenney and Burdines had moved in from the Hollywood Fashion Center six miles east while Sears moved from the Hollywood Mall. Dillard's, filled the fifth anchor pad opened by opening its second area store on August 16, 1995. This was likewise done at North Point a year later, while stores also opened at the newly opened Seminole Towne Center and Lakeline Mall during this time. The mall gained a second Dillard's in 1997 as Mervyns sold 10 Florida stores to the Little Rock-based retailer. Burdines merged with Macy's in 2003 and then became simply Macy's in 2005. Macy's would also fill the sixth anchor pad as a second location. Like all Macy's in Florida that used to be Burdines, the palm tree columns reminiscent the Burdines style of architecture remains today. In 2016, GGP announced that the mall's Sears shrunk to make room for an AMC movie theater, which opened in 2017. Sears closed on September 15, 2019. In Q3 2019, Round One Entertainment announced that a new location would open in Pembroke Lakes Mall in Spring 2021, in the former vacant anchor store, making it the first and only Round One in all of Florida.

Current Anchors