Macy's makes it official: Underperforming Sarasota, Tampa locations to close

Department store giant Macy’s officially announced the stores it plans to close in 2025 as part of what it’s calling its Bold New Chapter strategy it announced last February. The list, 66 stores in total, includes a pair of Macy’s in the region, one in Sarasota and one in Tampa. 

Those locations, according to the company, join five others in the Sunshine State that will be shuttered. The Tampa store is in the WestShore Plaza. Employees unofficially confirmed to the Business Observer late last year that it would be one of the ones to close its doors. Washington Prime Group, the mall’s owner, bought the Macy’s property Oct. 18 for $10 million.

The Sarasota location is in the center now known as The Crossings at Siesta Key. That property, about five miles south of downtown Sarasota, was previously the Westfield Southgate Plaza and before that the Southgate Mall. University Park-based Benderson Development is currently amid a permitting and approval phase to redevelop the property into a mixed-use lifestyle village with retail, commercial and residential components. (The Macy’s at the Mall at UTC, in north Sarasota County, wasn’t on the closure list.)