By Mary Hladky
The owners of the Town Center at Boca Raton want to demolish the former Sears store that has been closed since 2018 and redevelop 31.6 acres in the northwest corner of the mall to create a “live, work, play” destination.
Under plans presented to the city in May, the Simon Property Group proposes an eight-story, 197-key hotel, a 374-unit luxury multi-family building, 157,170 square feet of retail and restaurants and a 629-space parking garage. The seven-story residential building would sit atop ground floor retail.
The project would create “a transformative, vibrant, walkable and high-density environment where residents and visitors can live, work, play, stay, and shop within a single, cohesive campus,” the application states.
The “heart of the redevelopment” would be a walkable “Main Street” that would connect the hotel, residential, retail and restaurants. It would also feature an open plaza with water features and shaded arcades.
The former Sears building footprint would become green space.
The redevelopment generally would be located at the southeast corner of the intersection of Glades Road and St. Andrews Boulevard.
Simon’s application follows a trend among mall owners to reinvigorate their properties with mixed-used development that drives traffic to the mall stores.
The proposal is in the initial stage of the city review process, and no hearings are yet scheduled before the Planning and Zoning Board or City Council.
The council got an early look at the plans at a February meeting.
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