Valdosta Mall is an enclosed shopping mall located in Valdosta, Georgia , United States .
21-533: It is composed of more than 70 stores and restaurants in 560,000 sq ft (52,026 m) of gross leasable area . Belk , and JCPenney , are the mall's anchor stores . The wing featuring JCPenney was part of a 1985 expansion. An Additional Vacant Anchor was previously a Sears which closed in 2018. In 2006, an outdoor concourse was added to the mall's front face, bringing in Old Navy , PetSmart , Office Depot and Ross Dress For Less as junior anchors. In 2007,
42-451: A building, except otherwise exempted, and uncovered areas for commercial uses are deemed the gross floor area of the building for purposes of plot ratio control and development charge. The gross floor area is the total area of the covered floor space measured between the centre line of party walls, including the thickness of external walls but excluding voids. Accessibility and usability are not criteria for exclusion from GFA. 3.2 URA reserves
63-566: A commercial property. Specifically, gross leasable area is the total floor area designed for tenant occupancy and exclusive use, including any basements , mezzanines , or upper floors. It is typically expressed in square metres (although in some places such as the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, the square foot is used). It is measured from the center line of joint partitions and from outside wall faces. That is, gross leasable area
84-412: Is satisfied is constructed or intended to be used solely for parking motor vehicles, loading or unloading of motor vehicles, or for refuse storage chambers, refuse storage and material recovery chambers, material recovery chambers, refuse storage and material recovery rooms, refuse chutes, refuse hopper rooms and other types of facilities provided to facilitate the separation of refuse to the satisfaction of
105-425: Is the area (measured in square metres or square feet ) taken up by a building or part of it. The ways of defining "floor area" depend on what factors of the building should or should not be included, such as external walls, internal walls, corridors, lift shafts, stairs, etc. Generally there are three major differences in measuring floor area. Gross floor area (GFA) in real estate is the total floor area inside
126-544: Is the area for which tenants pay rent, and thus the area that produces income for the property owner. For a property with only one tenant, the measurements gross floor area (GFA) and gross leasable area (GLA) are essentially equal. The Building Owners and Managers Association has established a standard with American National Standards Institute , ANSI/BOMA Z65.1-1996 for measuring floor area and calculating gross leasable area and loss factor. Urban Redevelopment Authority The Urban Redevelopment Authority ( URA )
147-512: Is the national urban planning authority of Singapore, and a statutory board under the Ministry of National Development of the Government of Singapore . The authority was established on 1 April 1974, and is of critical importance to the city-state. Singapore is an extremely dense country where land usage is required to be efficient and maximized. The city state is trying to reduce land wastage in
168-461: The public and private sectors . In approving development applications, the URA states its goal is to foster orderly development conforming to the planning guidelines as stated in the statutory Master Plan and the existing control factors. URA tries to provide quality service when working in partnership with building industry professionals and the general public to foster development. URA is responsible for
189-698: The urban design of the city. For areas of special interest, such as the Singapore River area, the Orchard Road shopping belt, and the Marina Bay , URA devises specific medium and short-term urban design and land use plans. It also works with other government agencies in enhancing the city's urban design. Building conservation in Singapore is the responsibility of URA, which issued a Conservation Master Plan in 1989. This plan laid down guidelines and processes for
210-650: The Building Authority, or for access facilities for telecommunications and broadcasting services, or occupied solely by machinery or equipment for any lift, air-conditioning or heating system or any similar service. (L.N. 406 of 1987; 39 of 2000 s. 7) The non-accountable GFA is further defined in Practice Notes for Authorized Persons, Registered Structural Engineers and Registered Geotechnical Engineers no APP-2. Permitted GFA in Hong Kong land lease agreement generally
231-557: The JCPenney store expanded greatly, taking over some of the space vacated when the old movie theater moved across the street. The mall was formerly known as Colonial Mall Valdosta under the ownership of Colonial Properties Trust who sold the mall to Gregory Greenfield and Associates in 2007. The mall is currently owned by GEM Realty Capital. In 2015, the Office Depot was replaced with a Bed Bath & Beyond . On November 2, 2017, it
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#1733092739909252-412: The building envelope, including the external walls, and excluding the roof. Definitions of GFA, including which areas are to be counted towards it and which areas aren't, vary around the world. Adding to this confusion is the practice among some developers to use gross leasable area (GLA) and GFA interchangeably, or to use GFA as GLA, even though GLA usually excludes corridors and other public areas inside
273-591: The built and natural environment no. 1 and no. 2. Since such facilities granted extra floor area to develop and usually included in the GFA/ selling area the developer sold to end-user, which made end-user confused, government planned to abolish the exclusion of green features and use alternative way to encourage green features. For the total floor area, HK use the term "site coverage". GFA in Singapore, defined by Urban Redevelopment Authority as of March 2014 is: 3 Definition of gross floor area 3.1 All covered floor areas of
294-553: The conservation of culturally and historically significant buildings. More than 7000 buildings in Singapore have been gazetted as conserved buildings. URA also sells land by tender on behalf of the Singapore government to meet demand from private developers. URA deals with tenders for government land and applications to buy reserved land. The URA plays an important role in managing all public car parks outside of Housing Development Board estates. It provides information and services to
315-458: The development, while both figures include areas occupied by structure, like walls and columns. Hong Kong law Chapter 123F, Building (Planning) Regulations , Regulation 23 sect 3 sub-paragraph (a) defined that: Subject to sub-paragraph (b), for the purposes of regulations 19, 20, 21 and 22, the gross floor area of a building shall be the area contained within the external walls of the building measured at each floor level (including any floor below
336-473: The face of land shortage in the area. URA's main responsibility is land-use planning . URA planners devise both long-term strategic plans, along with medium-term plans, which are reviewed every five to ten years. These plans designate the land use and urban density for the entirety of Singapore. These designations are divided by URA into 55 planning areas . It is the responsibility of URA to evaluate and grant planning approval for development projects from
357-422: The level of the ground), together with the area of each balcony in the building, which shall be calculated from the overall dimensions of the balcony (including the thickness of the sides thereof), and the thickness of the external walls of the building. sub-paragraph (b): In determining the gross floor area for the purposes of regulations 20, 21 and 22, the Building Authority may disregard any floor space that he
378-683: The maximum GFA (excluding the non-accountable above) to develop. However it may be further reduced by the effect of plot ratio, maximum site coverage, maximum permitted height of building and Outline Zoning Plan. Moreover, roof and other uncovered area is exclude in Permitted GFA but usually had restricted use as opening space, corridor or emergence escaping area. Since 2001, to encourage the incorporation of green features in building developments, further facilities could be excluded/disregard in GFA. and defined at Joint Practice Notes on protection and improvement of
399-467: The public in regard to coupon parking, season parking, and heavy vehicle parking. URA also sets the bylaws to parking infringement and fines. In keeping with URA's function as the authority for urban design in Singapore, the URA Centre was conceptualised by URA's in-house architects. KenzΕ Tange Associates and Kajima Design Asia Pte Ltd served as design consultants. The building consists of two blocks:
420-454: The right to decide on GFA matters based on the specific design of a development proposal on a case-by-case basis. With effect from January 2014, Private enclosed spaces (PES) and private roof terraces (PRT) are counted as part of the bonus GFA capped at 10% above the Master Plan that also includes balconies. Gross leasable area ( GLA ) is the amount of floor space available to be rented in
441-716: Was announced that Sears would be closing as part of a plan to close 63 stores nationwide. The store closed in January 2018. Sometime in December 2018, the FYE store in the mall announced its closing, and a storewide discount of 30-50% began. It is closed completely as of January 22, 2019. As of July 1, 2019, Valdosta Mall is managed by Spinoso Real Estate Group . In 2023, Bed Bath & Beyond closed due to their bankruptcy. Gross leasable area In architecture , construction , and real estate , floor area , floor space , or floorspace
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