Seminole City Center — the retail property formerly known as the Seminole Mall — has landed a new anchor tenant.
Studio Movie Grill, a full-service eat-in movie grill, will open at Seminole City Center in spring 2017, Primerica Group One Inc. and North American Development Group said Monday.
The two firms have partnered in the redevelopment of Seminole City Center, which is converting a former enclosed mall into an open air shopping center in Pinellas County’s Seminole, just off of Park Boulevard.
Studio Movie Grill also has a location at University Mall, on Tampa’s Fowler Avenue. Movie theaters, especially luxury ones with dining components, are becoming increasingly popular anchors at retail properties. As retailers grapple with how to balance their brick-and-mortar business with ecommerce, movie theaters provide another way to draw more customers to malls and shopping centers.