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Orlando Fashion Square

Orlando Fashion Square

Orlando Fashion Square is a two-story indoor shopping mall located in Orlando, Florida. Opened in 1973, it features 31 stores in over one million square feet of shop space. The mall's anchor stores are Macy's, Floor & Decor, and Dillard's Clearance Center. Predating the mall's opening was a Sears de

partment store opened in 1963; this store closed in 2016 and has been razed for redevelopment. JCPenney, another anchor store, closed in 2020. Other major tenants include Planet Fitness. The mall is managed by UP Development, Inc. History The first operational store on the site was a 173,000-square-foot (16,100 m2) Sears department store, which opened for business on October 30, 1963. The mall was first announced in 1971 by developer Leonard L. Farber, who also developed Pompano Square (now Pompano Citi Centre) in Pompano Beach, Florida. Under the original plans, the mall would be attached to the existing Sears store, with Burdines as the second anchor. Burdines opened along with the rest of the mall on July 30, 1973. A third anchor, Robinson's of Florida, opened on the north side of the mall on October 29, 1973. Robinson's of Florida was the newly created Florida division of California-based J.W. Robinsons. The Orlando location was their second Florida location, opening two months after their first store at Tyrone Square Mall in St. Petersburg. A freestanding movie theater was built on an outparcel in 1975 which existed until 1989. In 1988, Robinson's Florida stores were sold to M

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