- March 17, 2025
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It was Oct. 16 in 2012 and Todd Mathes was attending the groundbreaking ceremony for the Mall at University Town Center.
He remembers thinking the plans by east Manatee County-based Benderson Development and Taubman Co. to build an 880,000-square-foot shopping mall in two years were "ambitious."
The partners announced to the crowd that the new mall would be open two years to the day after the groundbreaking.