Gateway Town Center in the Brentwood area is adding a Dollar Tree store.
The city issued a permit May 1 for Advanced Construction Services of Southwest Florida Inc. of Pittsburgh to build-out the interior of 12,176 square feet of space at a project cost of $300,000.
The space is at 5258 Norwood Ave., Unit 12A, next to Five Below.
DLP Construction Co. Inc. and Williams & Rowe Co. Inc. are shown as the contractors for the $350,000 shell improvement for Dollar Tree, according to a permit issued Dec. 2.
That permit covers shell and facade improvements, a new storefront and a demising wall in 16,099 square feet of space to create two tenant spaces – Units 12A and 12B.
Dollar Tree is another national storefront addition to the more than 60-year-old center, which had struggled for years for new retailers but has opened an anchor tenant and several more national brands while upgrading the property.
Anchor tenant Burlington, a national discount department store, opened in November 2023.
Dollar Tree is two doors from anchor Burlington in Building A.
Miami Lakes-based owner Gateway Retail Center LLC has been adding new retailers including Roses Discount Store, Planet Fitness and a larger Hibbett Sports.
A site brochure for Gateway Town Center shows Dollar Tree as coming soon.
Much of Gateway Town Center opened more than 60 years ago, in 1959, at the Golfair Boulevard and Norwood Avenue exits east along Interstate 95 and north of Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway.
Gateway added an indoor mall on the site in 1967. A California investor recently bought that part on about 10.7 acres and intends to develop retail stores, self-storage and affordable housing.
The buyer is preparing to convert the entire former JCPenney building into an indoor climate-controlled self-storage center.
The rest of the Gateway stores opened between 1980 and 2005.
Winn-Dixie has leased a grocery store there since 2020 after the city agreed to $850,000 in city financial incentives to offset costs associated with redeveloping the property, where Publix Super Markets Inc. closed in 2019. The store was built in 2000.