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DAVIE, FL-Stiles Corp. has begun construction of Lakeside TownShops, a 275,000-sf community shopping center here that willfeature a 185,000-sf SuperTarget as the anchor tenant.BesidesSuperTarget, which will feature a full-service grocery store,Lakeside Town Shops will have 68,875 sf of in-line retail space andnearly 4.9 acres for five outparcels. The center is scheduled to becompleted in fall 2005. Divisions of Stiles are providing design,development, construction and leasing for the Broward Countycenter, which is being developed on a 42-acre in-fill site at thenortheast corner of Stirling Road and University Drive.According toRobert Breslau, president of Stiles Retail Group, this center isthe biggest new community shopping center under construction andscheduled to come on line next year in the county. Breslau says acombined 25,000 sf in leases for the in-line space is undernegotiations with national office supply, women's apparel, videoand other specialty retailers, and leases are expected to befinalized within 45 days.Stiles divisions working on the projectinclude: Stiles Development, which is handling developmentmanagement for the center; Stiles Retail Group, which is involvedin site identification, site acquisition, retail anchornegotiations and transactions, outparcel sales and leasing, andother space leasing; Architecture 6400 Inc., which designed thecenter; and Stiles Construction Co., the center's generalcontractor doing the initial site work for the center and buildingthe Stiles-owned retail bays.Plans call for the property to includetwo 15-foot-wide linear pedestrian greenways with vine-coveredoverhead archways and benches through the property and ending atthe entrances to SuperTarget. The property also has a nine-acrelake with fountains on the northeast side of the center.StilesCorp. has several other major retail projects under way in Florida,including the East Sunrise Boulevard Publix in Fort Lauderdale andHarbor Shops, in that city's 17th Street Causeway area.