Layout of Mall at University Town Center gives sneak peek (updated)

(Updated)

After more than 80 percent of the tenants were revealed through building permits -- and an impending Taubman announcement on the remaining -- it's time to show what the mall layout will look like.

Below is a PDF I obtained from Sarasota County and have used as a reference for a while now of where stores will be located. Zoom in to see each unit number.

The largest tenant space left is Unit 266 on the second floor, taking up 13,127 square feet. You'll also notice that stores like H&M and Crate & Barrel are listed on both levels--yes, they are two-level stores.

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Notice, also, the Apple store in Unit 162. You'll see accessory units with letters A-L. This is a combination of class roooms, break rooms, stock and repair areas used by Apple employees for the store.

The mall won't have a food court per se, as several fast food tenants are built in-line with seating inside, but a nice grouping of fast food businesses are being clustered in the main court on the first floor. A few others have strategically placed themselves beside department stores.

Below these images are numbers corresponding to the stores. Smoothie King is the only announced store that doesn't have a readily available assigned space. Again, more stores are coming if you don't see your favorite store listed below. Also, the mall will not be 100 percent full when it opens Oct. 16.

(The image has zoom tools below.)

Plan your strategy for the grand opening now.

Layout of Mall at University Town Center

FIRST LEVEL

101—Cheesecake Factory

102—Smoothie King
K102—Starbucks (underneath escalator)

103—Seasons 52

104—Fast-Fix Jewelry and Watch Repairs
105—Capital Grille

106—Organic Nail Bar
107—BRIO Tuscan Grille

109—Auntie Anne’s

110—Macy’s

115—Yankee Candle

118— H&M
119—Diventi Bella Fragrances & Cosmetics

120—Saks Fifth Avenue

121—Express

124—Teavana

125/126—Yo Sushi

127—The Walking Company

129—Godiva
130—Sunglass Hut

131—Brighton

132—Swarovski

133—Vera Bradley

134—Johnston & Murphy
138—Tesla

139—Moleskine
141—Peter Elliot Blue
141A—Foot Gear Outdoor

142—Natural Comfort Footwear
143—The Art of Shaving

144—Cache
145—Lovesac
146—Janie & Jack

147—Soma

148—Everything But Water

149—Papyrus

149A—Lenscrafters

150—Rise Pies

150A—Mandarin Express

150B—Sweet Doctors
154/155—Arhaus Furniture

156—Z Gallerie
158—Crate & Barrel

160—See Eyewear

162—Apple Store

164—Tommy Bahama

166—Victoria’s Secret
169—Pandora
170—Lush Fresh Handmade Cosmetics

171—Kay Jewelers
172—Cellairis

173—Kona Grill

174—Burger and Beer Joint

176—Zales

178—Solstice

179—L'Occitane en Provence
181—Bath and Body Works

182—Gap

187—American Eagle Outfitters

188—Journey’s
189—Aldo

190—Icing

191—Things Remembered

192—Camicissima Milano

193—Pac Sun

197—Champs
198—GNC

199—T-Mobile

SECOND LEVEL

200—Dillard’s

208—FootLocker

210—Charlotte Russe
213—H&M
214—Oakley

215—Forever 21

218—Loft

219—Edward Beiner
220—Banana Moon

221—MAC 

222—Aveda

223—Anthropologie

225—Michael Kors

228—Brooks Brothers

229—Stuart Weitzman

231—White House | Black Market
236—Bose

237—kate spade

239—Calypso St. Barth

240—Mayors Jewelers

242—Boston Proper

244—Lilly Pulitzer

245—TINA Stephens
248—Jackie Z. Style Co
250—Oil & Vinegar
250A—OndadeMar
251—Francesca's Collections

253—Williams-Sonoma

256—Pottery Barn

257—Crate & Barrel

261—Omega

263—Chico’s

267—Talbots
269—Tumi

271—J. Crew

273—BCBG
274—Robert Graham

275—Lululemon Athletica
276—Kiehl's

279—Sephora

281—Ann Taylor

283—Banana Republic

286—J.Jill
287—Soap Stories

290—Clarks Shoes
291—J.S. Trunk & Co. (Samsonite concept store)
294—Invicta
295—Claire's

296—Gymboree
298—Great American Cookies

299—ColdStone Creamery
299A—Brow Art 23

Crate & Barrel will stack store inside Mall at UTC

This Crate & Barrel in Annapolis, Md., is built into a Westfield
mall, but the Sarasota location will be entirely inside the Mall
at University Town Center on two levels. Photo Provided

When Crate & Barrel opens inside the Mall at University Town Center, its presence will be noticeable but not as much as some of the chain's other mall locations.

The upscale furniture store's building plans shows that the store will consume two levels of the mall. Plans also call for an elevator, escalator and stairs within the 25,800-square-foot store. Total construction cost is listed as $1.3 million, according to the application.

While the mall's mini-anchor will take out a sizable chunk of the mall, the design will  be on the smaller end of the Chicago retailer's full-line stores.

The Mall at UTC location will not have its own exterior entrance and will be fully contained within the mall, according to documents filed with Sarasota County. Having the store self-contained shaves the space down about 3,000 to 10,000 square feet off a full-line store.

The Tampa location at International Plaza features 35,000 square feet on two levels with a separate entrance when opened in 2009 while another two-level Crate & Barrel with its own entrance at Westfield Annapolis in Maryland is about 28,000 square feet. These types of Crate & Barrel stores are considered the "home store" version, offering a full line of furniture and accessories.

The mall's mock-up plans showed that the only retailers with their own entrances would the be the six  main restaurants plus the department stores--Dillard's, Macy's and Saks Fifth Avenue.

Still, the Crate & Barrel represents a few surprises in the design the mall is incorporating. After subtracting the department stores, the mall has 460,000 square feet of space to lease. As leasing is confirmed and added, the square footage totals are confirmed and allows mall management to shift spaces and locations, which is one reason why you're not hearing an exact number of stores coming to the mall, mall general manager Octavio Ortiz said during previous presentations. That number ought to be well nailed down by now because the mall is more than 90-percent leased.

This game of leasing Tetris will be in turbo mode 90 to 120 days out from opening when most smaller stores are ready to build. So come mid June, it'll be a race to Oct. 16.

He also said during a Manatee Association of Realtors meeting on March that "some" of the stores will be on two levels, hinting that Crate & Barrel might not be the only one to take up both floors, aside from the department stores.

It doesn't sound like there would be a food court, per se, but permits for fast-food joints are popping up for the mall including Mandarin Express and Cold Stone Creamery. Smoothie King representatives said early on they would commit to the mall and an area below an escalator shows a space perfect for a Starbucks kiosk.

The biggest flexibility Taubman and Benderson have is for expansion. A fourth anchor store, which likely could be Nordstrom, could be built adjacent to Saks Fifth Avenue, said the mall's general manager, Octavio Ortiz, during a luncheon in March.

Still, I don't think there's room for a water park as one reader suggested.