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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.
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.
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 ...
Robinson's of Florida was the last anchor to open, which debuted on September 4, 1973. Robinson's sold its entire Florida division to Maison Blanche, a Louisiana-based department store, in 1987. By 1991, Maison Blanche had sold its Tyrone Square location and six others on the Gulf Coast of Florida to Dillard's who still operates at the mall today.
The first store to open at the mall was anchor Burdines, which opened on October 5, 1970. [2] The mall opened on November 1, 1971 with anchors Burdines, Jordan Marsh, J. C. Penney, and Richard's. [3] Zayre opened at the mall in the former Richard's space in 1982. [4] The mall began a serious decline in the 1990s, as it rapidly lost anchors.
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.
The 38-yr-old Boynton Beach Mall, which is up for sale, opened in 1985 with former retail giants like Burdines. We take a look at the shopping mall through the years.
The remaining mall was reworked to include big-box stores, including Office Depot and Ross. Steve & Barry's opened on the upper level of the former Burdines in 2007, but closed in 2009 after a nationwide liquidation. In 2015, the anchor store, office depot store closed, temporarily replaced by a Halloween City store in 2017.