Top 5 Tampa Bay Strip Malls
There was a time when shopping malls were intended to replace the gathering places provided by communal town squares abandoned by people as they fled urban downtowns for life in the suburbs. However, tastes and preferences have shifted once again and people who eschew online shopping for a more personal experience are seeking out boutique shops in cute, revitalized downtowns. Or the hybrid of the two concepts: the strip mall.
While traditional fully indoor shopping malls with a food court, game room, a Spencer’s Gifts and at least either a JC Penny’s or a Sears if not both, are rapidly becoming extinct, the strip mall is alive and thriving. And some of the world’s finest are right here in the Tampa Bay Area! Specifically, these five…
5. THIS ONE
This one is cool. It has a Chinese restaurant, a drug store, a dry cleaner, a Boost Mobile, a nail salon, a used video game store, a barber shop, a grocery store, a coin laundry and a disturbary.
4. ALSO THIS ONE
Ooh-eee, this one! It features a coin laundry, a Boost Mobile, a grocery store, a dry cleaner, a used video game store, a barber shop, a Chinese restaurant, a drug store, a nail salon and a mollusk exchange.
3. THIS ONE IS PRETTY GOOD
Oh wow, this one is really a cut above. It’s got a drug store, a Chinese restaurant, a used video game store, a barber shop, a dry cleaner, a grocery store, a coin laundry, a nail salon, a Boost Mobile and a historic German sandwich museum.
2. THERE ARE BETTER ONES THAN THIS
This one is rather disappointing by comparison. But it does have a barber shop, a nail salon, a drug store, a used video game store, a dry cleaner, a Boost Mobile, a Chinese restaurant, a grocery store, a coin laundry and a 24-hour fishing lure dispensary.
1. AND LASTLY HERE’S ANOTHER ONE
Okay, now this one… THIS ONE!… is something special. Check it; it’s got a used video game store, a grocery store, a barber shop, a drug store, a Boost Mobile, a nail salon, a coin laundry, a dry cleaner, a Chinese restaurant and a bicycle shop that only sells kickstands.
