Melbourne Square Mall

Melbourne Square Mall is an enclosed, single-level mall in Melbourne, FL owned by Washington Prime Group. It opened in 1982, and has 4 anchors; JCPenney, Dillard's, Dillard's Ladies, and Macy's, and 2 junior anchors; Dick's Sporting Goods and LA Fitness.
==History==
Melbourne Square Mall opened in 1982 with three anchors: Ivey's, JCPenney, and Jordan Marsh Florida. An expansion in 1986 added Belk-Lindsey and Burdines to the mall.
In 1990, Ivey's became Dillard's. With the folding of Jordan Marsh Florida into Burdines in 1991, Melbourne Square's former Jordan Marsh location was closed due to sharing a mall with an existing, newer Burdines. In 1992, the space became home to Florida's first Mervyns. In 1997, Mervyn's closed it's doors, and the space became a second Dillard's.
In 2004, Belk closed to relocate to a new store at The Avenue At Viera plaza. In 2005, Burdines became Burdines-Macy's and then Macy's, due to Federated's consolidation of it's department store brands to Macy's. In 2006, the vacant former Belk space was demolished for the construction two junior anchors: Circuit City, and Dick's Sporting Goods. Ciruit City replaced an older store down the road, which shared a plaza with Target. Sometime after Circuit City's closure, the space was taken by a pop-up World & Decor store. Later, OfficeMax closed permanently.
In 2011, the World In Decor pop-up store closed it's doors, and in 2014 the space was completely renovated for a new LA Fitness.
On January 17th, 2015, José Garcia Rodriguez shot and killed one, and wounded another, before killing himself, in the mall's food court as a result of what was ruled a domestic dispute.
As of 2019, Melbourne Square is the most prosperous mall in Brevard County, leading to the downfall of other malls in the county, such as Merritt Square Mall and the Brevard Mall. While the mall has a few vacancies, occupance is overall high and the mall retains a healthy mix of chain and mom-and-pop tenants and new vacancies are filled quickly, which has let the mall recover quickly from the recent loss of tenants such as Charlotte Russe, Crazy 8, and Payless Shoe Source.
==Outparcels==
Two restaurants, Outback Steakhouse and BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse, make up the mall's outparcels.
Category:Malls in Florida
Category:Single-Level Malls
Category:Malls in the United States
Category:Malls that opened in 1982
Category:Shopping Malls
Category:Washington Prime Group Malls