What should a redeveloped Fashion Square mall include? – WFTV

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The redevelopment of Orlando Fashion Square mall — long a topic of discussion, speculation and imagination in The City Beautiful — appears to have some wind at its back once again with the news that talks have resumed between the property’s two largest stakeholders.

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Now that Unicorp President Chuck Whittall and his firm, which owns the dirt beneath the mall, are back at the table with building owner TBB Orlando LLC — an entity related to Wilmington, Delaware-based The Bancorp Inc. — there again is speculation about what a redevelopment of one of the city’s most intriguing properties would look like.

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Whittall told Orlando Business Journal that apartments, restaurants and bars would be part of the mixed-use redevelopment, adding there would be a pivot from soft goods retail to more lifestyle-oriented retail concepts. He also said that the project, which wouldn’t start until 2023 at the earliest, would be a complete redevelopment of the property, with the possible exception of the existing Macy’s store.

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