South Florida

ICYMI: Here are 7 looks at retail openings and closings in South Florida

Stories by Miami Herald journalists, with AI summarization

If you like to shop, you know that the shopping world in South Florida always seems to be changing.

Stores open and close. Malls add and take away.

Let's take a look back at some of those retail shifts in 2025:

Downtown Miami’s coming Apple store, the neighborhood’s first, will open in January 2025. The barricade with the Apple logo and its garden theme, was revealed on Jan. 10, 2025.

NO. 1: A NEW APPLE STORE WILL BE DOWNTOWN MIAMI’S FIRST. HERE’S WHERE AND WHEN IT OPENS

Apple unveiled its new store’s design to content providers. | Published January 10, 2025 | Read Full Story by Howard Cohen

American Freight Furniture and Mattress store in Macon, Georgia, is among the more than 300 set to close due to bankruptcy announcement on Nov. 3, 2024.

NO. 2: THESE STORES ARE DISAPPEARING FROM THE SOUTH FLORIDA RETAIL SCENE. WILL YOU MISS THEM?

Take a look at the brands and the locations. | Published March 11, 2025 | Read Full Story by Miami Herald Archives

In this file photo from Oct. 30, 2024, comedian Brittany Brave is photographed outside of the Barnes & Noble bookstore in West Kendall. Brave grew up in Miami’s Kendall neighborhood and worked at this store as a barista during high school and had a stand-up performance at the Adrienne Arsht Center on Nov. 23, 2024. By MATIAS J. OCNER

NO. 3: COULD ONE OF THE BIGGEST ROOMS TO GO IN THE COUNTRY REPLACE A BELOVED KENDALL BOOKSTORE?

The closing plans coincide with other plans for expansion. | Published March 20, 2025 | Read Full Story by Howard Cohen

Fort Lauderdale’s Motif, a 385-unit mixed-use apartment building at 500 N. Andrews Ave. in the Flagler Village neighborhood, will open the first Go Grocer in Florida later in 2025.

NO. 4: IT'S NOT PUBLIX OR 7-ELEVEN. THIS HYBRID GROCERY IS COMING TO SOUTH FLORIDA

The urban core attracted the Chicago store. | Published April 25, 2025 | Read Full Story by Howard Cohen

Eataly in downtown New York City. The internationally famous Italian brand is scheduled to come to the Aventura Mall in the spring of 2025. By Pablo Enriquez

NO. 5: HOW ‘FLORIDA FIRSTS’ ARE DEFINING AVENTURA MALL. HERE ARE SOME OF THE NEWCOMERS

Eataly promises the Italian experience in Miami. | Published April 17, 2025 | Read Full Story by Howard Cohen

A man walking along Miami Beach’s Lincoln Road Mall is reflected in the window of a vacant shop. By Alexia Fodere

NO. 6: LINCOLN ROAD REVIVAL? MIAMI BEACH HOPES MULTIMILLION-DOLLAR MAKEOVER BRINGS BACK CROWDS

After a decade of planning, delay and debate, the city of Miami Beach has broken ground on a scaled-down version of a multimillion-dollar renovation plan for Lincoln Road Mall that aims to restore some of the famed pedestrian promenade’s lost shine. | Published September 22, 2025 | Read Full Story by Andres Viglucci

CEO and Founder Melissa Saavedra strikes a pose at Steamy Lit on Wednesday, October 1, 2025, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. By D.A. Varela

NO. 7: THIS ‘STEAMY’ BOOKSTORE FEATURING DIVERSE AUTHORS IS OPENING IN FORT LAUDERDALE

Fort Lauderdale is already hot. | Published October 3, 2025 | Read Full Story by Amanda Rosa

The summary above was drafted with the help of AI tools and edited by journalists in our News division. All stories listed were reported, written and edited by McClatchy journalists.