Cordova Mall, located in
Pensacola, Florida
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, is the largest shopping center on the northwest
Gulf Coast
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of
Florida
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.
Opened in 1971 and renovated twice, in 1987 and 2008/2009, Cordova Mall comprises of commercial property, with two major and six junior anchor stores. Five are situated in the mall (
Dillard's
Dillard's, Inc. is an upscale American department store chain with approximately 282 stores in 29 states and headquartered in Little Rock, Arkansas. Currently, the largest number of stores are located in Texas with 57 and Florida with 42. The ...
,
Belk
Belk, Inc. is an American department store chain founded in 1888 by William Henry Belk in Monroe, North Carolina, with nearly 300 locations in 16 states. Belk stores and Belk.com offer apparel, shoes, accessories, cosmetics, home furnishings, ...
,
Dick's Sporting Goods,
Old Navy
Old Navy is an American clothing and accessories retailing company owned by multinational corporation Gap Inc. It has corporate operations in the Mission Bay neighborhood of San Francisco, California. The largest of the Old Navy stores are its ...
, and
Ross Dress for Less
Ross Stores, Inc., operating under the brand name Ross Dress for Less, is an American chain of discount department stores headquartered in Dublin, California. It is the largest off-price retailer in the U.S.; as of 2018, Ross operates 1,483 sto ...
), and three are located in an open-air atmosphere (
Best Buy
Best Buy Co. Inc. is an American multinational consumer electronics retailer headquartered in Richfield, Minnesota. Originally founded by Richard M. Schulze and James Wheeler in 1966 as an audio specialty store called Sound of Music, it was rebra ...
,
Bed, Bath and Beyond
Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. is an American chain of domestic merchandise retail stores. The chain operates many stores in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Puerto Rico.
Bed Bath & Beyond was founded in 1971. It is counted among the Fortune ...
and
World Market). Until 2012, Dillard's operated two stores in the mall, which had been tenanted by
D. H. Holmes and
Gayfers
Gayfer's was a regional department store chain in the southern United States. Based in Mobile, Alabama, the chain of stores operated from 1879 until 1998 when it was taken over by Dillard's.
History
C.J. Gayfer migrated to Mobile, Alabama, from ...
.
Montgomery Ward
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used to be located where World Market, Bed, Bath and Beyond, and Best Buy opened in 2001.
According to the Simon Property Group website, Cordova Mall is the third-most popular tourist destination in the
Florida Panhandle
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, and serves eight million shoppers a year
Office Depot opened next to the mall in 1992 during Labor Day weekend.
The mall was damaged
in a tornado on October 18, 2007, although no injuries were reported.
In 2012, Dillard's closed its store in the former D. H. Holmes, consolidating all operations into the former Gayfers building. As a result, Belk moved from its existing location (which was previously the first
Parisian store outside of Alabama until 2007) to the former D.H. Holmes/Dillard's, and
Dick's Sporting Goods taking over most of the store that had been Parisian and Belk.
This also resulted in the closure of another Belk store at nearby University Mall (now
University Town Plaza
University Town Plaza is an outdoor shopping mall in Pensacola, Florida, United States. It is being developed on the site of the former University Mall, which operated from 1974 to 2013. The mall's original anchor stores were J. C. Penney, Sears, a ...
).
See also
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Bel Air Mall
The Shoppes at Bel Air, formerly Bel Air Mall, is a super-regional shopping mall, located in Mobile, Alabama, United States. The mall has a gross leasable area of . It is the oldest continuously operating enclosed super-regional mall in Alabama ...
*
Pelican Place at Craft Farms
Pelican Place at Craft Farms is a lifestyle center in Gulf Shores, Alabama. It is planned to expand to . It was designed by CMH Architects of Birmingham, the firm that also designed the Eastern Shore Centre in nearby Spanish Fort. It was devel ...
*
Springdale Mall
Springdale Mall is a shopping center located in Mobile, Alabama, United States, directly across from Bel Air Mall. Opened in 1959 as an open-air shopping center, Springdale Mall was later redeveloped as an enclosed shopping center. Facing competiti ...
References
External links
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Shopping malls established in 1971
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Shopping malls in Florida
Buildings and structures in Pensacola, Florida
Tourist attractions in Pensacola, Florida
1971 establishments in Florida