Dead malls of Jacksonville

[AmyLynne]

I think you're right about Montgomery Ward at both malls.  I seem to remember a "Woolco" at Normandy Mall.  Philips, like Roosevelt, started as an open mall with covered sidewalks, and after Regency, fully enclosed.  I think Normandy came along late enough that it started out enclosed?

I remember Renna's Pizza at Philips, good hand tossed pizza! - but that may have been after the name change to Market Square Mall.

It was Jefferson Wards at the Normandy Mall.... and the only store I remember from the Market Square mall was the huge Body Shop outlet store they had on the south end of the strip.

[Ocklawaha]

Jefferson Wards was just an attempt to rebrand the same old Monkey Wards chain. Nothing changed except the losses which came in ever greater negative numbers.

OCKLAWAHA

[JaxBorn1962]

How is the old Normandy Mall doing now? Wasn't it redeveloped and turned into a Christian theme mall or something? On my occasional trips to Lowe's off Lenox, I tend to check it out. Did they ever get a buyer on the out building that was Pizza Inn many years ago? 

Yes and its now a Med-Plus doctors office or something like it.

[JaxBorn1962]

Back when Roosevelt Mall was a Mall not like today all broken up. I believe there was a Piccadilly Cafeteria and a five & dime store with a lunch counter. And a Gateway Bookstore among other store's.