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MIZNER PARK UPGRADES TENANT MIX

This fall, more national retailers will move into Mizner Park, the open-air, mixed-use development that is the focus of renewed retail and cultural activity in downtown Boca Raton, Fla. Many of the new tenants are slated to open in October at the nearly 870,000-square-foot center, which combines retail, office and residential components, plus cultural museum space, an amphitheater and a park. The new retailers include Femme Coiffure, a full-service hair, skin and body salon; La Maison du Soleil, which sells Mediterranean-inspired home decor and gifts; and Perfumerie Douglas, of Hagen, Germany, which will open its 12th cosmetics and perfume store in the United States. Tommy Bahama, the casual clothing retailer, is slated to open this month. The new tenants join the just opened Ann Taylor Loft and Caviarteria, a caviar and gourmet food bar, which opened in June.

NEW LOOK, TENANTS FOR TOWERWALK

TowerWalk, the retail component of a mixed-use development in Atlanta, is adding tenants and finishing off cosmetic improvements as part of a large-scale transformation.

Atlanta-based Regency Partners, owner and manager of TowerWalk, took down the center’s old neon lighting, added stonework, a brick walkway, lampposts, and restructured the retail tenants to better reflect Buckhead’s upscale residential and office market. The company also signed several new tenants for TowerWalk, including Dobel Salon & Spa, and Copeland’s of New Orleans, a restaurant specializing in Cajun cuisine.

Located in the city’s Buckhead section, TowerWalk is the 165,000-square-foot retail and entertainment portion of the Tower Place mixed-use complex.

LEGACY PLACE LIFESTYLE CENTER PLANNED FOR PALM BEACH

Orix Real Estate Equities of Chicago and TMK Development have received initial approval from city officials of Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., to build a lifestyle center there. According to officials at KA Architecture, which is designing the project, city officials were favorable toward initial plans for the 439,000-square-foot mixed-use lifestyle center. Legacy Place will be a Main Street-style concept dominated by 400,000 square feet of retail space, and will take on a village look. The project will feature towers and covered passageways with shops on each side, all with varying colors and heights.

The project is expected to open in spring 2002, and the groundbreaking is slated for August. Legacy Place will feature a 180-foot diameter fountain in the central plaza. It will also offer an entertainment court and several outdoor eating and gathering places dispersed throughout the center.

COBB THEATRES GOES ‘DOWNTOWN’

Cobb Theatres has agreed to build a new cinema in Downtown At The Gardens, a lifestyle and entertainment project currently under development by Menin Development Cos. in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.

Called Downtown 15, the cinema will be a 3,000-seat, 15-screen movie theater. Downtown At The Gardens will be a mixed-use 326,000-square-foot lifestyle center located adjacent to the Gardens Mall. The project will feature retail and office components, with 261,000 square feet of retail space. Groundbreaking for the Downtown At The Gardens project is slated for late this year.

The lifestyle center, and cinema are expected to open in spring 2003. The project will also include specialty food retailers, art galleries and national and regional restaurant chains as tenants.

TAUBMAN NAMES TENANTS FOR MALL AT WELLINGTON GREEN

Taubman Centers has set the first 100 tenants for its Mall at Wellington Green, Wellington, Fla. Slated for an Oct. 5, 2001 opening, the Mall at Wellington Green will be an enclosed regional 1.3 million-square-foot center, and is expected to be the centerpiece of Wellington’s new mixed-use development in Florida’s West Palm Beach County. It will feature 170 specialty shops and restaurants, plus five two-level department stores including Burdines, Dillard’s, Lord & Taylor and JC Penney. Nordstrom is on tap for a 2003 opening. The initial lineup of tenants includes fashion retailers like Ann Taylor, Cache, Bisou Bisou and bebe. The mall will include the area’s first Strasburg Children, a children’s clothing store. Other tenants include restaurants California Pizza Kitchen and Bamboo Club. Mall at Wellington will also feature: High-end audio and video equipment store Bang & Olufsen; Bosi, a European shoe retailer; Harry & David, a seller of gourmet gifts and specialty foods; and My Emotions, which sells bath and body products.

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