Butler Plaza

Butler Plaza is a large retail complex located in southwest Gainesville, Florida.

Anchor stores include Lowe's, Wal-Mart, Target, Best Buy, Sam's Club, and two Publix supermarkets.

[4] This land became the site of the beginnings of Butler Plaza and the original 300,000 sq ft complex broke ground in 1971.

[5] Initial tenants included Woolco Department Store, Eckerd Drugs and Publix Markets.

[3] In 2007, Butler announced plans to expand the shopping center to the north into 160 acres (0.65 km2) of vacant land, formerly occupied by a trailer park.

[14][15] Butler Town Center provides an open-air shopping experience consisting of 350,000 square feet of retail and dining space and a 45,000 square foot Stengel Field Food Hall, named after Gainesville's first school of aviation, Stengel Air Field which operated on the land from 1941 to 1971.

Butler Plaza in 2008, prior to the closing of Albertsons. The space is now occupied by Publix