Belz

[Lyn]

Beltz has always been one of our favourite shopping malls, will be lost without it when we go in August.

<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by CarolAnn
I thought Festival Bay was a completely different enterprise? We saw it in 2004, with the indoor skate park, Ron Jon's and numerous different shops,including the chocolate shop with choc dipped strawberries, along with a cinema etc[msnsmile]
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Me too its just across the road[msnscared]

[IanandSarah]

Do you think Bass Pro is included?
Ian and Sarah

[LiesaAnna]

we didnt spend as much time at Belz last visit compared to our first visit, so many shopping malls to choose from! desisions desisions!!

[wilfy]

Sarah will have to find another Character Warehouse for the out of date Disney stuff. This shop is one of Sarah's favourites as it's normally the place she finds all those 'what can i buy ..' type prezzies.

[traceya89]

i loved the hard rock cafe outlet in belz which used to be the planet hollywood outlet. the character warehouse for disney and universal stuff were good places for bargains and i love the welcome home outlet. i am saddened that these will not be there when i next visit florida.

[djdigitald]

Festival Bay is a total different outlet to Belz, the only thing i can think of is that the same company own Festival Bay that are buying Belz hence calling it Belz Festival Bay. I have to admit though apart from the odd shops like Oudoor World, Ron Jons and a couple of others as well as Bill Murrays Caddyshack Festival Bay is pretty poor for a new development as it is only about 45% full. It kind of sums up the whole situation with I Drive and how poor it is becoming.

[gromit]

Belz was looking really tired this time (we were there for 3 weeks, just got home) we went just the once for some shopping there and ended up stopping at Premium afterwards as Belz shopping had been unproductive! So closing down explains a lot - looking on the positive side, it might relaunch to be really good again as there are a lot of tired looking outlets at that end of I drive.

[KevinT]

We have just been to Belz yesterday, and it looked as if it was flourishing OK to me. There were plenty of people looking around and the shops seemed to be well stocked and staffed ?
Festival Bay is on the opposite side of the road and still has about 50% empty units. There was certainly no sign of decline in the popularity of Belz and although the units are older and a little "worn" at least they have businesses in them. Perhaps the rumours are a ploy to try to get businesses to migrate across the road??

[DisneyDreamer]

Just had a look at the thread where I found this info originally and this is the latest update from the author.......



"The info that I was given was that Belz will be closing down 'this month' and that new owners Prime Outlets (www.primeoutlets.com) plan a major makeover for them to make them go head-to-head with Orlando Premium Outlets. No-one seems to know any timescale involved, but I'd have to think the Belz malls (and the Designer Outlet centre) as they exist now would need to close for several months for the re-design."