Gateway Town Center
| Location | Jacksonville, Florida, United States |
|---|---|
| Coordinates | 30°22′10″N 81°39′57″W / 30.369480°N 81.665782°W |
| Address | 5000-7 Norwood Ave |
| Opening date | 1959 |
| Management | Gateway Retail Center LLC |
| Owner | Gator Investments |
| No. of stores and services | 34 |
| No. of anchor tenants | 3 |
| Total retail floor area | 700,000 sq ft (65,000 m2)[1] |
| No. of floors | 1 |
| Parking | Surrounding sectional; free |
| Website | gatewaytownctr |
Gateway Town Center (commonly called Gateway Mall or Gateway) is an indoor/outdoor shopping center located in the Jacksonville, Florida neighborhood of Brentwood, just off Interstate 95 (exit 355 and 356) at Golfair Boulevard and Norwood Avenue. Developed in the 1950s,[2] it has 34 stores, and is anchored by Winn Dixie, Burlington and Roses.[3]
The mall originally consisted of a strip center with Food Fair, G. C. Murphy, J. C. Penney, Winn Dixie, and W. T. Grant (later May-Cohen's). A 1967 expansion added the enclosed mall, anchored by a new J. C. Penney store and Montgomery Ward, later Zayre.
History and Recent Activity
In 1967 the mall would receive an indoor expansion. This expansion would add a Montgomery Ward, a new Penneys building, and more inline stores. Some of those inline stores included Foot Locker, Orange Julius, Morrison's Cafeteria, and Strawberry Fields[4]
On October 28, 2019 Publix announced they would close the Gateway store leaving the center without an anchor. On November 26 Winn Dixie was approved into the Publix spot (Publix had not moved and Closed on December 28, 2019.)[5][6] On February 12, 2020 Winn Dixie reopened in the former Publix store.[7]
Roses would open up a store at the center in 2022 in the former JCPenney store in the plaza side.[8] In 2023 Burlington would open its doors in the former Grants building. Five Below would Also open its doors in 2023 in the former Winn-Dixie building.[9] In 2024 it was announced that Dollar tree would fill the other half of the former Winn-Dixie building. [10]
List of anchor stores
| Name | No. of floors |
Year opened |
Year closed |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| JCPenney | 1 | 1959 | 1967 | Original Strip Building |
| 2 | 1967 | 1992 | Enclosed Mall Building | |
| Burlington | 1 | 2023 | — | Former W.T. Grants |
| Montgomery Ward | 1 | 1967 | 1985 | Later Jefferson Ward |
| Winn Dixie | 4 | 1986 | Unknown | Currently Split into Five Below and Dollar Tree |
| 3 | 2020 | — | Replaced Publix | |
| Service Merchandise | 1 | 1972 | 1992 | Originally Standard Sales[11] |
| Publix | 1 | 1959 | 1962 | First Publix in Jacksonville [12] |
| 1 | 2000 | 2019 | Newly constructed building near the JCPenney Auto Center |
Notes and references
- ^ "Gateway Town Center, Retail". Development Details. Gator Investments. Archived from the original on May 28, 2013. Retrieved August 23, 2013.
- ^ "Exploring the Northside: Gateway Mall Photo Tour". Metrojacksonville.com. Retrieved August 23, 2013.
- ^ http://www.metrojacksonville.com/article/2017-jul-the-rise-and-decline-of-gateway-mall
- ^ https://www.thejaxsonmag.com/article/the-rise-and-decline-of-gateway-mall-page-2/
- ^ https://www.firstcoastnews.com/article/news/local/gateway-town-center-city-officials-trying-publixs-brentwood-location-open/77-9009f0f2-5995-4bd5-9546-935f46489625
- ^ https://www.firstcoastnews.com/article/life/food/winn-dixie-moving-into-publixs-spot-in-gateway-shopping-center/77-8363b420-adb3-470c-b4b6-cdbfdeb074bd
- ^ https://www.firstcoastnews.com/article/news/local/winn-dixie-announces-opening-date-at-gateway-town-center/77-5de65797-92bc-4474-bf6e-43644f5e916e
- ^ https://www.jaxdailyrecord.com/news/2022/mar/14/roses-building-out-discount-store-at-gateway-town-center-0/
- ^ https://www.jaxdailyrecord.com/news/2023/may/08/gateway-town-center-adding-burlington-five-below-larger-hibbett-sports/
- ^ https://www.jaxdailyrecord.com/news/2025/may/02/dollar-tree-joining-gateway-town-center/
- ^ https://www.jacksonville.com/story/news/reason/call-box/2019/07/21/curious-jax-do-you-remember-standard-sales-catalog-store/4637372007/
- ^ https://www.jacksonville.com/story/news/2019/10/31/as-publix-prepares-to-close-doors-at-gateway-community-looks-ahead-to-fill-void/2399102007/
External links
- Gateway Town Center website Archived 2014-10-23 at the Wayback Machine