WestShore houses many specialty shops including Francesca's Collection, LOFT, New Balance, H&M, Old Navy, Sunglass Hut, and more.

Westshore Plaza opened on September 28, 1967, as the Tampa Bay area's first enclosed shopping mall.

The mall was expanded for the first time with a northeast wing in 1974 along with the north parking garage and a third anchor, Robinson's, which sold its Florida stores to Maison Blanche in 1987, which in turn then sold its store and six others on the West Coast of Florida to Dillard's in 1991.

[4] Saks Fifth Avenue opened on the west end of the mall along with a third expansion on November 12, 1998,[5] but closed in 2013 and became a flagship Dick's Sporting Goods in 2014.

[6] The fourth and most recent expansion in 2000 involved relocating the food court east into the former Pantry Pride building and a new west wing of mall space with a 14-screen AMC Theatres on the second level.

The mall's current owner, Washington Prime Group, has not announced a timeline for construction of the redevelopment.