North Carolina, Florida, Georgia... Which state has the most upscale or semi-upscale malls? (cost, comparison)
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Location: Augusta, GA ''The fastest rising city in the southeast''
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The upscale malls/lifestyle centers in Georgia are Phipps, Lenox, Perimeter, Mall of GA, North Point, and Augusta mall... The village at Riverwatch opening in Augusta in fall of 2011. Will have Costco and is suppose to have other things like REI, Starplex Cinemas, etc...
I know about the Streets at Southpoint in Durham and SouthPark mall in Charlotte.. I also know about Bal Harbour and Aventura Mall in Miami.. What other malls are there in North Carolina and Florida??
Florida. Lenox is actually like many malls in Florida. I would consider it borderline between upscale and semi-upscale and I used to work there. Phipps is the only really upscale mall in GA. Augusta Mall is neither upscale or even semi-upscale. It is just an average mall. I would consider Perimeter semi-upscale.
Upscale in FL (similar array of shops as Phipps Plaza or super high sales per square foot signaling very cash rich shoppers and expensive shops)
-Shoppes at Bal Harbour in Miami (sales per square foot close to $2139, among the highest in the nation and higher than Phipps)
-Mall at Millennia in Orlando (sales per square foot of $1000)
Semi-Upscale in Florida (sales per square foot between $500 and $1000 with a slew of upscale stores and/or department stores, and upscale restaurants)
-Aventura Mall near Miami (The Forbes Group)
-The Gardens Mall in Palm Beach (The Forbes Group)
-International Plaza in Tampa
-St. Johns Town Center in Jacksonville (same developer, Ben Carter, as Streets of Buckhead)
-The Galleria at Sunrise in Ft. Lauderdale
-Florida Mall in Orlando
-Dadeland Mall in Miami
-Westshore Plaza in Tampa (debatable because I saw in one report $379/SF, but I saw higher in other reports and it has a Saks Fifth Ave among other stores)
This does not include upscale shopping areas like Worth Ave or 5th Ave in Naples or Lincoln Road in Miami Beach. There are tons of upscale shopping "areas" in all of the FL metros and SW FL. Also, Sawgrass Mills, even though it's 2 million square feet of outlets, probably exceeds $500/SF and it has all of the "nice" outlet stores that are not in many metros.
I was trying to stick to the lifestyle centers/malls.. Because people from Atlanta could include Atlantic Station, etc...
Augusta mall has a 100k sq ft lifestyle center attached to a 1.1 million sq ft mall... It's hardly a average looking mall...
First of all open-air malls are the new mall (enclosed malls are not going to die, but they aren't being built right now). FL has great weather for open air malls. An open air mall that is one development and managed by Simon Property Group or any other large mall operator is a mall.
Now Augusta Mall is anchored by Dillard's (and not their upscale version which can be found in Tampa's International Plaza and St. Johns Town Center and is on the level of Nordstrom or Bloomie's), Sears, Macy's, JC Penney, and Dick's Sporting Goods. Banana Republic is probably the most upscale small shop in the mall. A semi-upscale mall needs some upscale stores like at least a Brooks Brothers, but probably a slew of stores like Tiffany's, Louis Vuitton, Cole Haan, Kate Spade, at least an Apple Store, Lacoste, Ralph Lauren, etc. Nice restaurants like Capital Grille or The Palm or Legal Seafoods, etc at the mall are also an indicator.
Augusta Mall, enclosed or open, is an average mall that nicely serves its smaller market. Augusta will not see the nicer stores until it reaches at least a million people (and right now it's about half that).
And Atlantic Station is average, not upscale or semi-upscale (though it has some "upscale" restaurants price wise, not really food wise). I live across from AS. I'm pretty familiar with it. Its clientele are not upscale either.
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