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The Gardens Mall, Palm Beach Gardens, Florida

Two frontages, three serving openings, and 800 amps already on the meter.

A fast-casual brand growing in South Florida was weighing a vacant restaurant unit beside one of the main entrances to The Gardens Mall. It had been a full-service restaurant, with a cooking line the brand's counter format would never use. The real question was which parts of a well-built 2015 fit-out would carry over. One visit, and a drawing set from the scan, answered it.

~3,300

Square feet

800 A

Electrical service at 480 V

16'8"

Floor to deck

1

Site visit

The Gardens Mall, Palm Beach Gardens, Florida - commercial site surveyed by Alturascope

Second-generation restaurant unit · Palm Beach Gardens, FL · Surveyed July 2026

What We Found

What the space had to offer, and what the format needed.

01

A front door on the mall and another on the forecourt.

The unit faces two ways. Outside, a covered patio looks over the mall's landscaped forecourt and water feature, with a six-leaf bi-fold serving hatch onto a stone-topped counter, ceiling fans, festoon lighting and a gas fire pit. Inside, it fronts the main mall corridor with two bar-height glazed sectional doors and a pair of entrance doors. For a counter-service format, three ready-made serving openings across two frontages is a rare starting point.

What we recommended

Plan the layout around the existing openings rather than new ones, and take up with the landlord the center-wide removal of the shopfront coving, which would raise the mall facade from 11 feet to over 13.

Covered patio with a steel-framed canopy, festoon lights and paved floor facing a landscaped forecourt with palm trees
The covered patio, looking out to the forecourt.

02

More power and height than the format needs.

The unit has a live 800 A service at 480/277 V three-phase, far more than a counter format draws. It feeds a main panel and two 208 V boards with plenty of spare ways, all scheduled and dated. Two 2015 rooftop units give about 23 tons of cooling across 3,300 square feet. The dining room is open to a metal deck at 16'8", and the back of house has close to 8 feet of ceiling void for new services.

What we recommended

Run a load schedule against the existing boards and plan the fit-out as reuse and re-circuiting, not a service upgrade. Have the mechanical engineer confirm the rooftop units' remaining life before they are counted on.

Restaurant dining room open to an exposed metal deck, with booths and a glazed sectional serving door at the right
Open to the deck, with a glazed serving door onto the mall.

03

The costly rooms are already built.

Two restrooms from the 2014-15 fit-out, each with two stalls, are finished in large-format porcelain with stainless partitions and are fully accessible. A two-door walk-in cooler and freezer is structurally sound, and there is a commercial grease interceptor in the service yard. These are among the slowest and most expensive parts of a mall fit-out to build from scratch.

What we recommended

Keep the restrooms and the walk-in boxes, fit new refrigeration to the boxes, and strip the previous cooking line, hoods and bar equipment the format doesn't use.

Restroom with brushed stainless toilet partitions, white tile and an accessible stall with grab bars
One of two accessible restrooms from the last fit-out.

Pre-lease survey of a mall restaurant unit in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida

This was a pre-lease documentation survey of a vacant second-generation restaurant unit at The Gardens Mall, an enclosed regional mall in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, carried out for a fast-casual food and beverage brand. In one visit we documented the 800 A electrical service and five distribution panels, the rooftop HVAC and kitchen ventilation, water, filtration, gas and hot water, the walk-in refrigeration, the restrooms, life safety and both public frontages, and captured the space in 3D. From the scan we produced a measured floor plan, reflected ceiling plan, interior and exterior elevations and a Revit model.

Water comes in at 1½ inches off a 2-inch metered line, with a commercial triple-cartridge filtration head already plumbed. The gas service is capped at the meter position, with the internal riser still in place, so reinstating it is a utility request rather than new pipework.

Delivered

The client received a narrative documentation report with a nameplate-level equipment schedule, a 3D scan, and a measured floor plan, reflected ceiling plan, interior and exterior elevations and Revit model drawn from it.

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