Opening date 1988 Owner Rouse Properties Opened 1988 | Management Rouse Properties No. of stores and services 130 | |
Location Lakeland, Florida, United States Developer Edward J. DeBartolo Corporation and Homart Development Company Address 3800 US Hwy 98 N, Lakeland, FL 33809, USA Hours Open today · 10AM–9PMSaturday10AM–9PMSunday12–6PMMonday10AM–9PMTuesday10AM–9PMWednesday10AM–9PMThursday10AM–9PMFriday10AM–9PM Similar Lakeside Village, Nampa Gateway Center, Oviedo Mall, Westfield Sarasota Square, Eastland Center Profiles | ||
The Lakeland Square Mall is a shopping mall located on the northern side of Lakeland, Florida in the United States and one of two enclosed malls serving Polk County. It is owned and managed by Rouse Properties, one of the largest mall owners in the United States. It is the only shopping mall located off of I-4 between Tampa and Orlando, and it serves the populations of western Polk County.
The shopping mall has six anchor stores, including the Burlington Coat Factory, Dillard's, J.C. Penney, Macy's,and Sears. When it opened, however, it featured Mervyns, and Sears, but also had Belk Lindsey (now Burlington Coat Factory), with Maison Blanche opening a few months later. Both the Mervyns and Maison Blanche stores became Dillard's; the former Mervyn's location was shuttered in 2012, with Dillard's consolidating to the former Maison Blanche. The former Mervyns/Dillard's building was torn down in 2013 for a Sports Authority and movie theater.
Sport's Authority has closed due to bankruptcies and store closings in 2016.
In January 2017, Macy's announced it would close its Lakeland Mall store as a part of a larger round of closings across the country.
The Lakeland Square Mall has been the main upscale shopping center for Lakeland during the 1990s, but since 2005 it has lost Belk to the competing Lakeside Village, an open-air lifestyle center that opened on the south side of the city.