New tenants be a part of Sarasota’s Mall at University Town Center

UTC welcomes lash salon and boutique as University Town Center district prepares for a flurry of new retail.

Plenty is going on in the University Town Center district. Shake Shack opened in April, at long remaining. European Wax Center is up and walking. New creation and signage seem to pop up along North Cattlemen Road on an almost monthly basis. The listing is going on and on.

Several new tenants are entering into the district at I-75 and University Parkway — together with the PGA Tour Superstore, The Good Feet Store, Town Pharmacy, Louis Pappas Fresh Greek, Barnes and Noble, and others.

The two most modern stores at the Mall at University Town Center are Fracassi Lashes and Obsessed Boutique. The 1,seven-hundred-rectangular-foot lash salon, which opened April thirteen, is a New York City-based splendor living room that does waxing, facials, microblogging, and laser hair removal further to lash utility. It is at the top degree next to J. Jill inside the former Soap Stories area.

Obsessed Boutique opened over the weekend in an area after Bose that has been vacant because wintry weather 2018. According to its Instagram web page, the boutique makes a specialty of fashion-forward patterns. Like Fracassi Lashes, Obsessed Boutique’s area is likewise 1,700 square ft.

Recent mall exits include Gymboree, Things Remembered and Charlotte Russe, which all filed for bankruptcy, and pop-up dress keep Russian Roulette, which became scheduled to be inside the mall just for prom season. Lauren Clark, advertising and sponsorship director for the mall, stated that she’s not quite prepared to announce Russian Roulette’s substitute. Cosmo Nail Bar is likewise scheduled to join the mall’s lineup soon.

This past weekend, the mall additionally hosted its 1/3 annual Treat Mom Like a Queen occasion, which protected style indicates food and drinks samples, pampering stations, beauty makeovers, ballroom dancing, live song, and a special VIP phase this yr. More than 500 human beings had been pre-registered, Clark said.

Upcoming stores coming to the University Town Center district encompass the aforementioned PGA Tour Superstore, The Good Feet Store, Louis Pappas Fresh Greek, Town Pharmacy, and Barnes and Noble, as well as Ford’s Garage and Jared. David Bouffard, a spokesman for Jared figure corporation Signet Jewelers Limited, said the shop would open using the early summer season.

Newly opened tenants at UTC consist of Basset Furniture, Natuzzi Italia, Sirius Day Spa, and Shake Shack.

Now that Shake Shack is open and I’ve had extra than my fill of their crinkle-cut fries, I personally am most hectic for Ford’s Garage, and to listen approximately the whole lot-mentioned but still elusive East District at University Town Center, which had a “coming quickly” sign not too lengthy in the past.

While the East District remains a mystery in the intervening time, there are still masses taking place in other University Town Center elements. There appears to be no scarcity of land to construct upon in that vicinity.

So I need to realize, is there something specific you’re excited about what’s coming to University Town Center? Any stores you want weren’t coming or that you desire possession would bear in mind? Drop me a line via email or inside the Sarasota-Manatee Retail News Facebook group — I’d love to hear from you.

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