Governor's Square is a super-regional shopping mall located on

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. Its two-level design was a first for northern

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when it opened in 1979, and was for many years the newest of two enclosed malls in the Tallahassee area, the other being The Centre of Tallahassee, formerly the Tallahassee Mall. The anchor stores are currently

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. Built into a hillside, the mall can be entered either on the first or second level, depending on where a particular entrance is located. The mall's original anchors stores were J. C. Penney,

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. Maas Brothers was converted to

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in 1991. In March 2005, the Burdines store was converted to a

. A 1993 expansion included an additional wing as well as

becoming the fourth anchor. On December 28, 2018,

announced that it would be closing its Governor's Square anchor store as part of a plan to close 80 stores nationwide. The store closed in March 2019. During the

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pandemic, the vacant store served as a Florida Department of Health monoclonal antibody treatment site. In 2015 the Governor's Square Mall received a $10 million interior and exterior renovation.Stores: the bulletin of the N.R.D.G.A., Volume 73, Issues 7–12
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The mall lies within a relatively affluent trade area less than two miles (3 km) east of downtown.

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