About this mall
Festival Bay Mall is an enclosed shopping mall located on International Drive in Orlando, Florida. It’s opened in 2002 as a property of the Belz Factory Outlets, it is owned by BT Orlando Limited Partnership and managed by General Growth Properties of Chicago, Illinois.The mall have 860,000 square feet of retail space with Bass Pro Shops, Vans Skatepark and Shepler’s Western Wear as anchor stores. It also comprises several entertainment venues, including a Cinemark movie theater, a 13,700 square foot indoor playground for kids, and a glow-in-the-dark miniature golf course.
The mall was planned and developed by Belz Enterprises. It was originally planned to open in 2000, but the opening was delayed until 2002. Initial plans called for the mall to be 1,100,000 square feet (102,193.3 m2) in size, but it was scaled back to 865,000 square feet (80,361.1 m2).