When I was in South Florida I visit the newly renovated Royal Poinciana Plaza just north of Worth Avenue in Palm Beach and just south of The Gardens Mall in Palm Beach Gardens. This is kind of in between those shopping districts and malls. The Royal Poinciana Plaza has three sections in a way those sections are The Plaza, Slat House, and Hibel House. The Plaza is the only outdoor part but there is a covering for rain. They also have beautiful black and white tiles throughout the plaza. One thing I noticed here that I thought was very interesting was that mainly the stores were mom and pop shops that weren’t really found in malls and if they were in malls they were VERY upscale. On their website there is a history tab that doesn’t have that much information on it but I will tell you what I gathered. There was a man named John S Phillip that dreamt of the plaza and asked John Volk to design a mall that would last 50 years. The first stores were FAO Schwartz and the first Gucci