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Dear Shops at Sunset Place,
I like you! You are A-OK in my book. Now, while I find that there are better malls with more stores in South Florida (my favorite being Aventura), you are close to home and on my way from work, so therefore convenient.
The bf and I often come here on lazy Sunday afternoons just to walk around and eat at one of the nearby restaurants. It's a great place to enjoy the outdoors when the weather is nice and cool.
You've got some good stores here, but unfortunately you also lack a lot of staples. Luckily, I can count on Forever 21, Aldo, Victoria's Secret, Armani Exchange and Urban Outfitters. :) One can never go wrong at those trusty stores.
Most recently we were here during Halloween to try and make our way into the costume shop that had opened, but the line was out the door and through the mall on Halloween day, so we skipped it.
We'll be around soon. Maybe some new stores will open for the holidays? I sure do hope!
Kind Regards,
SabrinaAnna*
Booo to the Self-Pay-for-parking kiosks! Boooo!
We found a space easily and fast! Found the validation machine inside the movies just fine!
#1 pay for parking machine had a line...a LONG line!
#2 pay for parking machine was rejecting 90% of bills: 20s, 10s, 5s, and 1s.
Unhappy!
When I finally found another kiosk, paid, and was driving out, what did I drive past? A payment booth with a live human being sitting inside! Booo!!! I could have used my cash there instead of risking my identity by using a credit card at that stupid pre-pay-parking kiosk!
Booo!
Sunset Place. You're not my favortie mall, but you're not bad.
Some of your stores are great: Urban Outiftters, Up Against the Wall, Bath & Body Works, Forever 21, American Eagle Outfitters, Gap, the Disney Store, etc. Some I don't care for, but I wouldn't care for them in any mall. The Barnes & Noble holds a place in my heart for many of my nights as a teen was spent there. The theaters also hold a special place in my heart for I would also frequent them often as a teen but even more so because I had a friend who worked there.
However, the place is overrun by teens (much like when I was a teen) any night of the week. Thank God for validated parking because the rates are pretty steep.
The Virgin Store, why don't they do something about it? That place was awesome when it was in business, but Jesus, fix it already! So something to it! It's just an eyesore now.
They have pretty cool eateries too: Sunset Gelato and Dan Marino's. But nothing out of the ordinary. I like the layout of it, but again, it is nothing out of this world. It does not wow, it does not impress. It's just there. Very blah. They have tried to pump it with life: Splitsville (Have not been there yet). But this place needs a complete makeover!
Do it! DO IT NOW!!
Parking:
- yeii!!! they have automated machines where you can now pay with credit card - however, what good does that do you when the line to get out of the parking is so long (on a Tuesday!!!!) that by the time you get to the exit, it's been more than 15 minutes and you have to pay an additional two dollars!!! Parking validation also doesn't make much sense; after the movie, we all validated our tickets, and I was charged more than someone who had been there longer, weird!
Flooding:
- seriously. this is Miami, it rains, which during the summer months translates to: it floods. this mall is divided by what could be called a pedestrian street, which floods so high when it rains the water covers the sidewalks. meaning you can't cross the "street" to get to the other side, leaving you to either walk all the way around the mall till you find an area where you can cross, or stranded where you are till the drains start working again.
IMO, the only good stores in this mall are Urban Outfitters & Banana Republic. It has a few other good ones, but not the variety you'll find in larger malls. The stores are okay, but the parking situation and flooding issues are enough to keep me away.
This'll be fun - a review of my backyard. So I am probably a bit biased because I live 3 blocks away in an apartment, so I literally live in and around SP. I used to visit this place when it first opened when it was still cool on Friday nights to see a movie and get a frappuccino afterwards at B & N haha.
Now it seems like the cool crowd has moved towards the outskirts of Sunset Place - Tavern, Irish Times, Carrabas, Jake's, Town, etc. The mall itself is mostly for shopping, movies, and tweens.
Some of the shoppes are a revolving door and keep changing to new ones, so it's always nice to take a walk around and check out any changes. I loved Barney's but soon enough it was gone and Cheeseburgers in Paradise, and now that's gone too.
Some of the clothing places have changed, a new cupcake store in the back you should check out LA Sweets since the owners are very friendly people.
Parking is a pain of course. Somehow they think this is Coral Gables all of a sudden and you've gotta pay for meters or a garage. That's why it's nice to live nearby and walk over. At least you can still validate your parking at the movies. Beware of the new parking machine that you pay at since the lines can get long after a big movie lets out. Atleast it's better than that cashier at the pay window who stole my $20 once and claimed it was a five.
Things you might not know and should check out: LA Sweets & http://filmmetro.com give out free AMC movie tickets sometimes, Splitsville apparently has cheap bowling night on Tuesdays after 10pm, parking is way cheaper Monday to Friday so if you're going go Friday instead of Saturday and the Halloween store opens August 1st in the back.
My little escape from Downtown Miami.
I love this place. It is small but with a good selection of stores like Forever 21, American Eagle,Urban Outfitters,...
It is usually quiet if you go after work , so I really enjoy to relax there, have a smoothie and read a book at Barnes and Nobles. This is like the perfect little retreat from the city to me.
The theatre is nice and right next to the mall there's the Whole Food market which I totally adore.
Nothing bad to say about it!
True, it's an open air mall but you know where you live so be prepared for the rain just in case! lol
For a while, just a nice looking building in the middle of an up and coming area. The area has little shops and nice restaurants while the big sore thumb of a mall is ceased. This place used to be prime, and the one mall I would have gone to a trillion times to watch movies and pretend I could one day go into Gameworks. Not to mention the impossibly cool FAO schwartz and niketown. Virgin was nice but I always thought buying music was so old school (had napster back at home). That was then, this is now. I suppose it's making moves to get back, somewhere. There was a period where you could only find poser creed kids lurking about, now its somewhat moving.
Either way, I'll always have something for this place and hope for the best.
nice mall tarnished by evil parking fees!
pros..
its a nice mall. its got most of what you could want to make a few hours out of a visit. you have food, movies, a video game arcade, a wide variety of shops, and all in a nice location.
cons..
paying for parking at a mall is ridiculous. they own the building and the parking lot. they want you to come spend your money so why are they charging for parking?
to add insult to injury if you happen to be caught in a mass exodus from the movie theater your gonna sit in traffic, in the parking garage, choking on fumes, and watching your parking fees go up.
you can get your parking ticket validated but then you have a time frame to get your movie watching / eating / spending money done in. if you go over the time allotted on your validation the parking attendant gets to rape your wallet on the way out.
i just loathe paying for parking so this mall gets very little of my money.
This place is everything I hate about malls and shopping centers.
Too many people , too many car in too small a space and too little parking.
Too many suv's driven by people who can't see over the dashboard.
I guess if I had kids and could not make it to Disney then I would take them there. It's like a modern Felini movie - mixed The Stepford Wives and the " It's a Small World " ride.
The same old stores as every other mall plus the overpriced Nike Store and a movie theatre complex that is impossible to enjoy the movie.
Well there is great Barnes and Nobles - so there is something good.
Oh and the Martini bar is ok sometimes but then you walk out into stroller hell which ruins the mood.
Probably the worst tile for a mall that is half open air in a city where it rains a lot and people have a tendency of wearing sandals and flips-flops.
I only come here for the movies and even then the garage is always a mission. I've started parking… Read more »
God, I've come to dislike this place like many Miamians do now. I still remember when it opened in 1998, two years after they demolished the Bakery Centre. I attended the first movie that was ever shown at the AMC. It was "You've Got Mail." I remember everyone was so excited, it was so new, with such promise. Now, it looks ugly and old already. The sign on 72nd St looks dilapidated, the spiral near the movie theatre has stains all over it, the Virgin Mega Store has been sitting defunct for a long time now, and all the wall coloring is faded. It's amazing how in just a few years it went from exciting novelty to ugly annoyance. I almost refuse to go on weekends because it's jam packed with Middle Schoolers standing in a circle in their little "cliques" trying to give themselves the illusion of meaning and purpose. I'm not too fond of the clothing stores there. They aren't spacious enough to accommodate the variety that would make a store great. I prefer going to Dolphin or Dadeland to do clothes shopping. I have mixed opinions about the restaurants. In general, I think the restaurants on 72nd and 73rd are better than most of the ones in Sunset Place. The one exception is Marhaba, which has really good Arab food, but is costly. I guess Sunset could be worse, but it's definitely nothing fantastic. There is so much space being left unused. The IMAX Theatre went under so quickly that many people never even knew it was there in the first place.
This open air style mall is nice, while it's not raining. There is a decent variety of shops, but there is not the draw of a major anchor store. Parking is provided by an attached garage. The real reason to come here is the laid back atmosphere and the surrounding shops.
Ah shoot, I had fun here today...my kids went to Gameworks with a friend of mine leaving me an hour to people watch while others I was with trolled the shops - I hate shopping so I hung over the 2nd floor balcony people watching. This place is full of teens on the weekend and its fun watching them, watching what they are wearing and how they interact with each other. Then you have the UBER "I'm soo cool I freeze this place" ladies with the pouting lips and big sunglasses and all wearing the same style of clothes and ultra straightened hair....all business, spending their husbands money as quickly as they can make it...my next stop from here was Walmart...what a culture change.....I always wonder what each end of the spectrum makes of ME!
This place has a good mix of stores. You can spend the afternoon in the bookstore, spend good time in Nike Town, or buy a ticket and go to the movies.
Good dining or happy hour drinks, this place has it all !!!
The parking is good and reasonably priced, don't forget to validate your ticket if you go to the movies.
This a place where you will find good variety and entertainment.
IT is an outdoor mall which adds to its allure because you can enjoy a nice sunny afternoon in South Florida, dine and shop- what else can you ask for ?
This place would be great if the parking garage didn't suck. I'm also not a fan of the jits walking around and wasting valuable space in this very pretty shopping center. I really like the layout for this mall and they have really great stores ( i used to work at the Banana Republic here years ago). The movie theater is also really great and has a lot of movie options to chose from, but i always tend to leave this theater as a last option, cuz frankly i hate spending 2 hours trying to get out of the garage after watching a movie on a Saturday night, crazy! Tip: go here during the week for some shopping and movies. If you have to go on the weekend, then try to get here before 6pm and you'll beat the madness.
I love the ambience of this mall as it is an enclosed outdoor mall. You feel like you're in a little village when you're walking in it. The surrounding areas are great too -- with cafes, restaurants and street front stores. Great urban feel and there's a Metrorail nearby.
There are A/X, Aeropostale, AMC 24 theatre (with rearview window captioning for the deaf as well), banana republic, Barnes & Nobles, a gelato (italian ice cream) place, pizza place, internet cafe, Virgin Megastore and Gameworks (a great arcade) to name a few stores here.
Sunset is a small and convenient shopping center. The only store that is really of interest to me is the Forever 21, since there aren't many of these stores around Miami. They also have an Arden B, Wet Seal, Aldo, Vicky Secret, a couple of jewelers, AMC movie theater, Gameworks, Borders and a few other stores. They have a couple of good restaurants too, including Dan Marino's restaurant. Parking here is always a mission, even though they have a parking garage.
I used to go here a lot when I was younger, because frankly they're aren't alot of options when your under 18 years old living in Kendall! Now I only go when I want to watch a movie or eat at a nearby restaurant. For those of you seeking to hang out here at night they have Gameworks, Martini Bar and Johnny Rockets among other restaurants and stores.
Avoid coming if it's too hot/humid or raining cause the space is mainly roofless. They do charge for parking which kind of sucks for a shopping mall, but it's nice inside and could easily translate into a relaxing day of browsing, dining and walking around since there are so many cute stores and eateries in the area. The movie theater is great too and they validate parking.
Definitely prefer this place over The Falls. It's got a stadium seating movie theater and nearly all the brand-name shops you want + some sunny ambiance you don't get at nearby malls like Dadeland. Why do I go here? This is probably the best location for Forever 21 and decent sales at Urban Outfitters. Its the nearest Nike Town around. Its even got an IMAX. Lotsa surburbian teens/UM students come here to stroll around, watch the movies, and shop.
I never thought I would consider going to the mall a treat, but an 80 degree outdoor mall 5 hours before you're suppose to fly back to a foot of snow and freezing temps was the best way I could have seen Miami off. I liked the vertical, indoor/outdoor feel of the mall. I was pretty shocked to go outside between buying my ticket and going into the actual theater! Nice mall, all the stores you would expect of an upscale area. I guess my only gripe was the parking garage - that was pretty terrifying experience.
Honestly, the only draw this place offers is the movie theater. Most of the shops (Gap, Banana Republic, etc.) can be found at the nearby Dadeland Mall (with free parking).
The worst part about this place has to be the horribly designed parking garage. I can't tell you how many times I have been stuck in a traffic jam trying to get out of there after a movie lets out! Weekend late shows are the worst.
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