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.