Pompano Citi Centre

It will be interesting to see how time treats this place. It has a good outdoor vibe and is nice to walk around. Most of the anchor stores will be gone in the coming years due to E-​commerce. It seems there are plenty of vacancies at Citi Centre, particularly on the second floor. It seems like a safe place to walk around though, but I would not care to walk around it alone at night. The desolation caused by the lack of businesses on the second floor certainly affects the vibe. Maybe in the future this could be a place like Kentlands, MD, with places to live along with places to shop all within walking distance.

I grew up in Pompano Beach. This was my go to mall growing up. They had all the cool stores, casual corner, 579, burdens, Pet circus to name a few (I even worked at Pet circus). Before food court ever existed they had restaurants and the restaurant here was called the purple pickle it was the coolest place I’ve ever seen with stained glass and all wood. Let’s rewind two before pompano Fashion Square was pompano Fashion Square it was originally a bean field thus the moniker of Pompano Beach High School the bean pickers. I had no idea about that I was on the phone with my attorney and she told me the story because her grandmothers maid used to pick beans here. And now fast forward the mall has become an outdoor mall they do still have some of the original interior but you really have to look hard to find that. The stores have all changed they even have a big Lots which is crazy it became some kind of big huge outdoor Mall as opposed to the cozy comfortable original mall with the fountains in the middle of the walkways and the stone benches I used to sit on. I came here today because I am going to the Hallmark store because I have a birthday party to attend tonight. I could only give it 3 stars only because I remember the way used to be and how great it was now it just seems so cold. Sure they have a lot of stores but not like the old stores. Will I continue to come here sure I will I pay my verizon bill they also have a store for that here and I like chilis and I like Panera Bread and of course the Hallmark store as well as my most favorite cupcake shop batter and co. who did my birthday cake this year for me. I’m not big on change but I go with the flow.

I ate at J. Marks restaurant for the first time and I definitely got my moneys worth the customer service was great fast I had no complaints about the food I even left my iPhone there mistakingly and he kept it for me while I came back and got it that was very honest of them I left our server a real big tip because he was very professional but also have a great sense of humor I love this place I definitely will go back

The relatively new Pompano Citi Centre is certainly a good replacement its predecessor, the decrepit Pompano Beach Mall with its largest draw being the Senior Citizen’s Silver Sneakers, which could be seen using for their indoor walking exercise program. It’s a completely different design, being a concentration of individual business joined together by a series of outdoor corridors and walkways. However, it’s clearly a financial struggler with its only big name anchors being an older left over Macy’s (formerly Burdines) joined together with a newer Sears, Big Lots, J. C. Penny and Lowe’s. Since its opening nearly all of the second floor businesses are closed up, vacant along with a good number of its ground floor establishments. It’s nice enough, handy for certain things, but as a shopping experiences lacking in good vibe, pizzazz or anything one could consider unique, different, out of the ordinary or interesting.
As a Unilocaler with my primary interests being in food and restaurants, it does have a couple of more local like operations being Amato’s Italian and bordering J. Mark’s. Other than those, the majority of others are either chain, chainy like operations or rather unworthy of any special note.

After the destruction of the old Pompano Beach Mall the reconstruction into a new outdoor mall complex has not benefited the mall at all. The idea is creative, but the application is not. Its a nice place to go for a quick bite to eat with friends when you’re bored with Rotelli’s for dinner and Coldstone’s for a ice cream after then hit a show or two. But no more no less, just a quick in and out hangout. It would not be like your usual mall where you would spend an hour or two shopping at, more like an hour or less. Nonetheless a quick place to go if you and your friends are lacking things to do and the beach is getting boring.

While this isn’t a bad looking place as you go by, I just found it to be lackluster and a bit odd. The anchor stores, Penny’s, Macy’s and Sears are not as good as they are in other malls. They are smaller, and just have a lower middle class feel to them. I even noticed an odd smell when we were in a couple of them that was reminiscent of a warehouse. These department stores, especially Macy’s usually smell like a blend of new clothing and ladies fragrances.
It also seemed strange to have one end flanked by Lowe’s and a Big Lots somewhere in the middle. Overall, it was just a strange place. While it is easier to get in and out of than some malls (two days before Christmas there was loads of parking), I probably wouldn’t shop there again, except in an act of desperation.