The Royal Poinciana Plaza, Palm Beach, FL

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 outside of NYC.

This mall has faced competition from Worth Avenue and the other way around meaning Worth Avenue faced competition. In 2017 Hermes moved into the plaza and out of Worth Avenue which I don’t think was the smartest move for Hermes. I think that Worth Avenue is better for luxury stores.

The Plaza went through a renovation that completely transformed the center and but the mall back on the map because before this renovation the mall was tired. But still the mall does have that Palm Beach flair and it’s very elegant. I don’t know much about this mall because their isn’t much about this mall along with a lot of the malls on Palm Beach. The Plaza is mainly occupied by small businesses which is really cool how they turned this around. They do have a Saint Laurent and a Hermes.

These are my photos of The Royal Poinciana Plaza on February 20, 2020 at around 1:00 PM.

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