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The place opened when Richard Nixon was president as one of the first enclosed shopping centers around, in a prime locale at Busch Boulevard and Florida Avenue. Legions of kids bought their school shoes at Montgomery Ward and watched movies like Smokey and the Bandit at its theaters. Shoppers crowded the mall to stroll AC-cooled and carpeted halls decorated in an oh-so-’70s nautical theme. Along with nearby Northgate Plaza — home to the fancier Maas Brothers department store — Floriland was one of Tampa’s first shopping meccas.
Only a few years later, bigger, badder University Square — what you might call a Real Mall — opened but a few miles away near USF. For Floriland, this was a serious pop in the chops. Storefronts emptied. Nearby neighborhoods struggled, and so did Floriland.
The owner of a clothing boutique was charged with running a prostitution ring out of there. A security guard was accused of sexually assaulting a shoplifter. Interstate 275 behind the mall could bring in the wrong kind of traffic: In 1983, a nude body was left in the parking lot.

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