tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-628100700550321985.post8594352048424359587..comments2024-03-28T03:22:39.407-04:00Comments on Albertsons Florida Blog: Former Albertsons #4371 - Boca Raton, FLAlbertsons Florida Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17350708223049245195noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-628100700550321985.post-9734546382576080882023-04-18T20:10:45.234-04:002023-04-18T20:10:45.234-04:00North Dixie Plaza has been under redevelopment in ...North Dixie Plaza has been under redevelopment in the past several years for "Camino Square," an apartment complex and smaller retail configuration with a mystery 22,399-square foot anchor. Could it be Aldi, Amazon Fresh, or Sprouts? Place your bets.<br />https://properties.kimcorealty.com/p/commercial-real-estate-listings/Boca+Raton-FL-33432/101010<br /><br />Since Kmart closed at Palmetto Park Square in 2019, rumors are uncommon that Publix will buy it (or the entire shopping center frankly) to tear down for another monster store, considering their existing location in the shopping center, dating from the 1990s is a pretty cramped and somewhat unusual store, which was a demolition and new construction replacing an existing Grand Union, Pantry Pride, and/or Woolley's in what appears when looking at historic imagery is a smaller footprint.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-628100700550321985.post-46362086189427255092023-04-08T13:17:06.945-04:002023-04-08T13:17:06.945-04:00That is true, finding large plots of land further ...That is true, finding large plots of land further east in Palm Beach County is difficult, which is why I'm surprised places like the old Winn-Dixie on Camino Real and the old Kmart on Palmetto Park Road have never been re-tenanted or redeveloped yet. You'd think someone would eagerly be wanting those buildings considering the locations east of I-95.<br /><br />University Commons does have an awkward set-up, and I can imagine that plaza gets busy considering FAU is right across the street, making that parking lot harder to navigate at peak times. Thanks for the update on the old OfficeMax too.Albertsons Florida Bloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17350708223049245195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-628100700550321985.post-36587367410229516172023-04-06T20:00:42.004-04:002023-04-06T20:00:42.004-04:00"The actual city of Boca Raton, whose boundar..."The actual city of Boca Raton, whose boundaries lie further to the east of here, has always been extremely picky about commercial development. With its "high class" appeal, the city of Boca Raton became more selective of what stores it wanted to approve within the town's actual boundaries, especially going into the 1980's. With that challenge to face, most retailers wanting to enter Boca Raton opted to locate outside the city's boundaries, making the wide open State Route 7 corridor a prime location for new retail development in the area."<br /><br />I believe it has more to do more with the limited availability of land in Palm Beach County in areas were development took off in the 1960s and 70s prior to large-scale commercial development, which is why you don't see many big box stores east of Florida's Turnpike, and especially east of Interstate 95... and if you do, usually it's in "power center" redevelopments of enclosed shopping malls, or subdivided space from another supermarket or junior department store of yesteryear. One exception in the City of Boca Raton is University Commons on the southeast corner of Glades Road and I-95, where a Nordstrom Rack (former Circuit City), Barnes and Noble, Bed Bath & Beyond, and Whole Foods Market (which expanded in 2007 to take up the space of a vacated Organized Living) are crammed into a wedge parcel like sardines in a can.<br /><br />The vacant OfficeMax was recently used as a Vineyard Vines "pop-up" clearance store and will be demolished and replaced with a medical office building, likely being that the shopping center is down the street from West Boca Medical Center.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-628100700550321985.post-33833882784411680912021-08-16T21:35:25.068-04:002021-08-16T21:35:25.068-04:00Thanks for pointing that out about the Kids R Us. ...Thanks for pointing that out about the Kids R Us. This is the article that mentioned Kids R Us was in Mission Bay Plaza originally: https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/132520740/ Digging a little further, the Kids R Us started out as a combo store with the Toys R Us in the plaza, before getting its own building across the street a few years later. The OfficeMax was originally a Bizmart, a chain OfficeMax bought out in 1993. The article about the plaza's opening made it seem like Kids R Us would be its own separate building, and has no mention of Bizmart, which tricked me into thinking OfficeMax was the old Kids R Us. I fixed the post to reflect this new information.<br /><br />Those Starbucks kiosks were a common trait in Albertsons remodels in the early 2000's, and like you mention, didn't last long. I remember the Starbucks kiosk at my local Albertsons suffering the same fate too, getting ripped out to be turned into a home for random sale merchandise.Albertsons Florida Bloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17350708223049245195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-628100700550321985.post-16067486813798567072021-08-14T14:43:07.810-04:002021-08-14T14:43:07.810-04:00I don't recall the Kids R Us store ever being ...I don't recall the Kids R Us store ever being in this shopping center. I don't remember if the OfficeMax was an original tenant or not. There was a Kids R Us store diagonally across the street in the Westwinds of Boca shopping center. It closed with the other stores in 2004 and Petco has since taken it's place. It retained the original façade until it was renovated within the last year or two.<br /><br />As for the Albertsons store, I do remember the store had a remodeling back around 2000 or 2001. They had put in a Starbucks or some other coffee shop and a Ben & Jerry's or some other ice cream shop next to it as a small kiosk near the east end entrance. There may have also been a small seating area right next to it. Their shopping carts had been customized to include cup holders near the handlebar so customers could put their drinks in it. The kiosk didn't last very long. I believe it was closed only about 1-3 years later. The kiosk was later gutted and used to display sale goods for a while and then removed at a later time. I believe their shopping carts with the cup holders still remained until the store's closing.Eric K.https://www.blogger.com/profile/04933747418195428393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-628100700550321985.post-38932137584763390932020-05-28T12:20:39.783-04:002020-05-28T12:20:39.783-04:00Tuesday Morning is closing at Boca Raton as part o...Tuesday Morning is closing at Boca Raton as part of Tuesday Morning being bankrupt due to the coronavirus.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16509094763074209439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-628100700550321985.post-78736707927568553222020-05-12T13:16:45.158-04:002020-05-12T13:16:45.158-04:00Really? Oh well, another lost Florida Retail...Really? Oh well, another lost Florida Retail...Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06777948370342480997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-628100700550321985.post-29934072929523608712020-05-12T12:07:52.796-04:002020-05-12T12:07:52.796-04:00The last Goodings store is sadly closing downThe last Goodings store is sadly closing downAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16509094763074209439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-628100700550321985.post-52227495036138074392020-05-10T22:47:23.973-04:002020-05-10T22:47:23.973-04:00I remember the Mission Bay plaza quite well. Never...I remember the Mission Bay plaza quite well. Never went into the Albertsons, but I do remember that General Cinema theater. In fact I remember when the completely gutted it... they tore out the interior and cut out most of the roof, but left the outer walls intact. I remember hearing bulldozers and other equipment at work in the former theater.T. Pasleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02278772041209792088noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-628100700550321985.post-87475474316749495722020-05-10T20:22:03.552-04:002020-05-10T20:22:03.552-04:00I apologize if this got double-posted. I had an e...I apologize if this got double-posted. I had an error when I went to post this the first time which was my fault. Oops. I'll re-write this again below.<br /><br />I'm not a frequent Tuesday Morning shopper, but I remember their stores being here in Houston way back to the 1980s even. In the handful of times I've been there over the years, their stores always seemed very basic, small, and quite unorganized to me. I did some research on Google Maps of their current stores in my area and it seems that Tuesday Morning has replaced their older locations with newer ones. Perhaps these newer ones are larger and more organized like the Boca Raton one described here. Most of the Tuesday Mornings around here have white vinyl tile floors, but those are locations in older shopping centers. The one newly built store in this area has a concrete floor.<br /><br />Hopefully AFB does not mind me going on a mild rant here, but I really do not like this concrete floor trend which has been commonplace for the last several years. It's fine for places like Home Depot, Sam's Club, and extreme discount stores (which probably describes Tuesday Morning), but those floors have no business being in mid-tier and above grocery stores and department stores. It's just my take that one should not feel like they are shopping in their garage when they go to a store with some level of prestige. I don't like our HEB stores in part because of that and many of our Kroger locations are getting concrete floors as well. In fact, we have a nice Greenhouse era Kroger near me which was renovated a couple years back and got one of those concrete floors. The floor is full of tile scar and also the concrete slab there was poured in the 1980s when the contractors probably thought nobody would ever see the concrete. Thus, it's quite patchy and has varying textures. It's ugly, IMO. Really ugly. Stained concrete looks a little better and I've noticed some new stores with concrete floors have this designer concrete look which almost looks like tile. That's not as bad looking as regular concrete. But, yeah, I get why retailers want shoppers to accept concrete floors. They are less maintenance and can last decades without needing replacement, but I just don't find them attractive in many applications.<br /><br />I also looked at that shopping center map and was intrigued by the OfficeMax location. I was thinking to myself that it was odd that Office Depot would keep an OfficeMax location in their backyard. Well, it turns out that the OfficeMax is indeed gone. We still do have a handful of OfficeMax locations here in Houston, but most OfficeMax locations here were located near Office Depot locations at the time of the merger and most/all of these redundant location problems were resolved by closing the OfficeMax locations. There are some Office Depots in Houston which were formerly OfficeMax locations, but those might have been converted even before the merger.<br /><br />I wonder if Office Depot might get more coverage on this blog or on the My Florida Retail blog in the future. When I think of Florida-based retailers with a strong presence here in Houston, not much comes to mind. There was Eckerd, which was loved by Houstonians, but they are long gone. The only other big retailer with a presence here that I can think of is Office Depot and they've been here in Houston for a long time. Office Depot and OfficeMax have been here much longer than Staples has and if recent Staples closures are any indication, Office Depot might be doing better here in Houston than Staples.<br /><br />It's interesting to see operating The Fresh Market stores. They quickly exited the Houston market after they purchased some Rice Epicurean supermarket locations a few years ago and converted them into The Fresh Markets. Perhaps the residents of Boca Raton are more interested in organic foods than Houstonians.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-628100700550321985.post-15189981715699499392020-05-10T13:08:59.880-04:002020-05-10T13:08:59.880-04:00That Tuesday Morning looks kinda sad with the plai...That Tuesday Morning looks kinda sad with the plain gray concrete floors. I was hoping they'd be stained. As it is, it makes the store look a lot more industrial than home-y.<br /><br />Also, I was briefly excited when I saw OfficeMax on that directory, but I should've known it was too good to be true XD<br /><br />Surprising to see the liquor store so thoroughly renovated as well!Retail Retellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12636351832804174132noreply@blogger.com