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Burdines (English: / b ɜːr ˈ d aɪ n z / bur-DYNZE) was an American chain of department stores operating in the state of Florida, headquartered in Miami. The original store opened in Bartow, Florida in 1896 [ 1 ] as a carriage-trade shop.
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.
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’ Royal Palm Cafe, featuring a salad bar in 1983. Robin Shields/Miami Herald File Burdines department store on South Miami Avenue at First Street in 1933.
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 ...
Parents took their kids to the then-open-air 163rd Street Shopping Center for a spin on the rides in front of Burdines. ... with a huge food court and South Florida’s first Macy’s store. There ...
The Gainesville Mall was the first enclosed shopping mall in Gainesville, Florida. It was located on the northwest corner of the intersection of NW 13th Street and NW 23rd Avenue and operated from Fall 1967 to 1993. [1] [2] The Gainesville Mall closed permanently in 1993 after years of decline and was initially replaced with a Kmart.
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.