Northridge Shopping Center — Local services in Oakland Park

I've grown up going to this shopping center. Yes I've watched many changes happen through the years. Oh did I mention it was 🐮 pastures many years ago? As a child I enjoyed passing by, 1 of the few times I wanted my Mom to drive slow. LOL It was the only country I had the privilege of seeing & learning from. A few short years later we were to have a last wave goodbye to Gods nature & get acquainted to an upscale shopping mall. It seemed to have all that we needed & although many changes took place we adapted, & to this day each memory is replaced with a new welcomed opportunity. This corner lot has always maintained a classy look full of good variety & a warm invitation to come in & let the new times and memories come into us. I recommend letting this friendly lot full of shops, restaurants, gyms, Publix grocery store, banking, clothing stores, a nice $1 store, Walgreens & much more become a part of your life. Although the "old time movie theater" has waved goodbye years ago, the memory still says hello "remember me?" I smile a familiar smile while joyful teary eyes glance in the rear view mirror. So come on in & enjoy the new stores. The whole mall is clean & still offers fresh air with beautiful palm 🌴 trees sharing the parking lot. It's always been well maintained & a safe place to "spend" time...

The Northridge Shopping Center on the northwest corner of East Commercial Boulevard and North Dixie Highway. It was built in 1973 making it 50 years old this year. The shopping center sees a lot of traffic from Oakland Park and the surrounding towns of Pompano Beach and Wilton Manors. It is also close to I-95.

This shopping complex is massive with 38 businesses. The plaza is anchored by a Publix and I find it very strange that there is another Publix right across the street although this one was here first and the one across the street has a Starbucks inside.

I have shopped at so many of the businesses in this plaza. I can pretty complete any errand here. Businesses I patronize include the Dollar Tree, Ross Dress for Less, Petco, PNC, Tijuana Flats, Dunkin's Donuts, Five Below, Party City, and Uptown Cheapskate. There is also a Quest Diagnostic, Dentistry, uBreakfix, Smoothie King, H&R Block, USA Nails Spa, and Youfit Health Club to name just a few of the other businesses.

The parking can be a bit of cluster especially by the Publix. The wide range of businesses make up for it though. Unlike a lot of shopping plazas in the area, they rarely have an open space. From places to eat, shop, and have services done, you can't beat the Northridge...

Getting in and out of the strip of store to go on to commerical or Dixie is complicated. There's 2 exits that allow u to turn into Dixie but u can't turn led to (south) or u could most likely get a ticket from a hidden cop waiting to ticket you. Parking for ALL stores is tight, considering there's a Publix there you would think they would have more parking. They do have a good selection of stores there including five and below Publix there's a gym there there's a Skechers there. There's a lot of decent stores there but not enough parking too many people walking around and with only two ways of getting out and not being able to go south on Dixie kind of sucks. So I just go across the street to the big Publix and if I want to go to five and below and make sure I do it when it's not so busy outside because...