The Mall at University Town Center is a two-level indoor shopping mall in Sarasota, the kind with department stores at the ends and a long corridor of shops in between.
What makes it unusual is its timing. It opened in 2014, when almost no one in the country was building enclosed malls anymore, which made it one of only two under construction nationally at the time.
It runs on surface parking lots that tilt toward both floors, so you can walk straight into the upper or lower level without stairs. A long skylight overhead has louvers angled to block the Florida afternoon sun…