Omni Center (Miami, Florida)

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This large mixed-use facility, once known as Omni International Mall of Miami, once featured JCPenney, Jordan Marsh (later Burdines), and an OMNI hotel, but it has been closed since around December 1999. The attached hotel (no longer an Omni) still functions, as well as a few new tenants like Miami International University of Art & Design.
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Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omni_International_Mall
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Coordinates:   25°47'27"N   80°11'16"W

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  • Constructed in 1975 and opening in 1976, the OMNI was Miami's first Mega Structure. It was a multi-use project combining a hotel, convention facilities, shopping mall, theater complex, amusement park and nightclub. The amusement park...Treasure Island featured a carousel, games, a pirate ride, food stands and an exhibit of some of the first objects brought up by Mel Fisher from the treasure ship "Nuestra Senora de Atocha". A hot disco nightclub...Scaramouche was located on the gound floor on Biscayne Boulevard. It was anchored by the department stores Jordan Marsh and J.C. Penney and had two levels of shopping. It was topped by the OMNI Hotel. Over the years tghese buisnesses and shops foundered due to fluctuations in the economy and finances of tourists. It is now the home of a career college and the downtown Miami Hilton Hotel. There are plans to redevelop the remaining closed areas of the long shuttered mall but nothing has materialized as of September 2010.
  • I remember seeing Ewok figures there in 1983. I went to the Omicon there too
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