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The original store opened in Bartow, Florida in 1896 [1] as a carriage-trade shop. Over its nearly 110-year history, Burdines grew into a popular chain of department stores, known as 'The Florida Store,' decorated with palm trees in the center of the store, painted in pink and blue, and other subtropical colors and motifs.
Timeline of former nameplates merging into Macy's. Many United States department store chains and local department stores, some with long and proud histories, went out of business or lost their identities between 1986 and 2006 as the result of a complex series of corporate mergers and acquisitions that involved Federated Department Stores and The May Department Stores Company with many stores ...
Roddy Bell Burdine [1] (October 14, 1886 – February 15, 1936) was an American businessman who owned the Burdines department store chain from 1911 to 1936. A leading citizen of Miami in the early 20th century, Burdine was the son of William Burdine, who founded Burdines as a dry goods store in 1898.
Burdines department store on South Miami Avenue at First Street in 1933. Miami Herald File/Florida State Archives ... A new South Florida Jefferson store in 1962. Miami Herald File. Syms. Syms at ...
Maas Brothers was a leading Tampa, Florida, department store founded by Abe and Isaac Maas in 1886 [1] that grew from a small 23-by-90-foot (7.0 by 27.4 m) store to a chain of 39 stores throughout the Gulf Coast of Florida.
Pages in category "Defunct department stores based in Florida" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Although a Mervyn's department store took over the lower two floors of the three-story structure, it closed in 1995. The biggest hit however took place in 1999, when Burdines closed and relocated to Aventura Mall. Vacancies increased throughout the late 1990s, leaving only Marshalls and a few smaller inline stores.
The anchor stores JCPenney and Burdines opened on September 1, 1995, [14] and the mall itself would hold its grand opening ceremony three weeks later on the 22nd. [ 1 ] The mall's most notable opening-day tenant was the upscale department store Parisian , which opened its first Central Florida location.