Aventura Mall was built in 1983 by four partners at the Oxford Development Company in Philadelphia. It's now owned by one of their heirs, Jeffrey Soffer. Aventura Mall is the biggest mall in South Florida with 2.7 million square feet and is about to get bigger.
The plan is to add a new, three-story retail wing and a seven-level garage. While we can't imagine there are enough other iterations of Abercrombie to justify 4.2 more football fields worth of shopping space, the additional parking spots will undoubtedly do much to curb
Last year, the place did about $1.4 billion in sales, with the average customer spending about $340 per visit. It's also about four times the national average, which means that Aventura shoppers are rich....Very Rich.
The second biggest mall-to-be in the country, Aventura Mall, will look like when it has completed its third major expansion since the mall was built three decades ago. (the first was the southern wing with the movie theater and two department stores, and the second was the Nordstrom wing, which still feels brand new).
The new wing will extend out from where the mall's current Food Court is located, and, from the looks of the drawings, it appears the Food Court will not be replaced.
A sizeable new garage will be located between the new wing and JCPenney, including a transit facility on the ground floor.
The three-story branch will have a two-level shopping concourse, but what will occupy the third level remains a mystery. However, it may be a unique feature' like the Equinox Gym and AMC movie theater on level three of the other two expansions.
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