Shopping in Pembroke Pines, FL sorts into four price tiers, and the first three sit within about four miles of each other on Pines Boulevard. The Shops at Pembroke Gardens carries the boutiques and full-price national fashion. Pembroke Lakes Mall covers the department-store middle. A run of off-price stores does the job an outlet mall would do in a bigger market. The thrift and antique end sits at the city’s edges and just over the line in Cooper City. This guide works through all four tiers, plus furniture, parking and the closing times that catch people out.
How Pembroke Pines Retail Is Arranged Along Pines Boulevard
Pembroke Pines is long rather than dense, and that single fact governs how you shop here. It’s a stretched-out east-west city, running from University Drive all the way west to the Everglades edge, so retailers who want the whole market open two stores instead of one. There are two Burlingtons, two Ross locations, and two very different shopping anchors three miles apart. Before you drive anywhere, work out which end of Pines Boulevard you’re on.
The west-central end, around Flamingo Road and I-75, is the expensive one, holding the open-air center and the furniture design centers. The stretch from about 10000 to 12000 Pines Boulevard is the value end: the enclosed mall, the department stores, the off-price floors and the donation centers. Only one destination in the city is walkable once you’ve parked, so a realistic Saturday covers two stops, not five.
The Full-Price Tier: Boutiques and National Fashion at Pembroke Gardens
The Shops at Pembroke Gardens, at 527 SW 145th Terrace, is the only place in the city where you park once and browse on foot. It’s an open-air center with more than 75 retailers arranged around walkways and patio restaurants, and Visit Lauderdale, the county tourism bureau, describes it as the relaxed alternative to an enclosed mall. Pets are welcome. Parking is free, but the rows nearest the restaurants fill by midday, so park at the far end and walk the length. Center hours are 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday to Saturday and 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sunday.
Women’s apparel is the deepest category here by a distance. The center’s own fashion directory lists Anthropologie, Ann Taylor, Chico’s, J. Jill, Loft, Soma Intimates, Elie Tahari and White House Black Market, a stronger contemporary lineup than most Broward suburbs support. White House Black Market at 428 SW 145th Terrace carries petites and outlet merchandise alongside the regular range and offers curbside pickup, so check stock online before making the drive.
Athletic and lifestyle brands make up the second cluster, with lululemon, Athleta, Nike and Aerie, while Altar’d State, South Moon Under and Steps New York give the center its boutique feel. Carter’s and OshKosh B’Gosh handle children, and David’s Bridal works by appointment. A farmers market runs every Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., the center programs Wellness Sunday yoga and Zumba mornings, and PembrokeKIDS trick-or-treating lands on October 28, 2026 from 6 to 8 p.m., so check the calendar if you want a quiet browse. Pair the trip with dinner from the best restaurants in Pembroke Pines if you don’t.
The Middle Tier: Pembroke Lakes Mall and the Department Stores
Pembroke Lakes Mall at 11401 Pines Boulevard is the enclosed, air-conditioned counterweight, and it’s the right answer from June through September. Visit Lauderdale counts more than 150 specialty shops here, plus a food court, Buffalo Wild Wings and a nine-screen AMC with reserved recliners. The sit-down option changed recently: P.F. Chang’s took over the former California Pizza Kitchen space at 11401 Pines Blvd. Treat the mall and Pembroke Gardens as different trips rather than substitutes, because the tenant mix barely overlaps.
JCPenney at 11725 Pines Boulevard is the department store worth singling out, and not for the clothing. The home side runs a custom window-treatment consultation that comes to your house, which is unusual at this price point. The store’s location page lists 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sunday, with same-day curbside pickup requiring an order at least two hours before closing.
Bealls Pembroke Pines Plaza West sits east of the mall at 10004 Pines Boulevard and covers similar ground for less. The store carries women’s petite and plus sizes, men’s, juniors, kids, shoes, handbags, beauty and a home department running from bedding to wall art. It opens at 9 a.m. most days and stays open to 9 p.m. or later, the easiest weeknight stop on this list.
The Off-Price Tier: What Passes for Outlet Shopping in Pembroke Pines
There’s no outlet mall inside Pembroke Pines, and any guide that says otherwise is padding. What the city has instead is an unusually deep bench of off-price stores, which covers the same need without the drive. The stores repeat east and west, so check the address before committing to 20 minutes in the car.
Burlington at 11930 Pines Boulevard stands out mostly because of when it’s open. The store page lists 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and 9 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, which makes Burlington the late-night option in the city. It carries clothing for the whole family plus beauty, shoes, accessories and home decor, and this location offers layaway and accepts Amazon returns. The second Burlington at 16024 Pines Boulevard serves the western communities and closes at 10 p.m. Sunday through Thursday, an hour earlier, though both stores run to 11:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday.
Ross Dress for Less runs the same east-west pairing, at 11150 Pines Boulevard and 15863 Pines Boulevard. Both are the standard treasure-hunt format, so going in with a shopping list wastes the trip. Go on a weekday morning, when the racks have just been worked. Seasonal decor carries the deepest markdowns, and holiday bins bought for a fraction of the price in January have to live somewhere until November. A 5×5 locker is roughly the size of a small closet and handles exactly that.
The Secondhand Tier: Thrift Stores, Donation Centers and an Antique Mall
Pembroke Pines has no antiques district and no vintage strip, which is what you’d expect from a city built on dairy farmland before it incorporated in 1960. Secondhand shopping here means charity thrift, and it’s better than the city’s reputation suggests. The Salvation Army Family Store and Donation Center at 888 N University Drive is the largest and the most consistent for furniture and housewares, with clothing turning over fast enough that a weekly visit beats a monthly one. It’s closed Sunday, and calling ahead beats trusting posted hours.
Goodwill at 18221 Pines Boulevard is the far-western option, which matters if you live in Chapel Trail or SilverLakes and don’t want to cross the city. It’s a full retail store in the Silver Lakes Shopping Center, open 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday to Saturday and 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sunday, with a drive-thru donation lane. Both are donation centers, so a thrift run pairs naturally with clearing out whatever you’re replacing.
For actual antiques you cross into Cooper City. The Cooper City Antique Mall at 9800 Griffin Road is a multi-dealer building of roughly 10,000 square feet, which means dozens of individual booths and the wide quality range that format always produces. It’s open 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday to Saturday and noon to 5 p.m. Sunday, about 15 minutes northeast of central Pembroke Pines, and it’s the only genuine antiquing stop within an easy drive.
Furniture and Home Goods From Design Center to Discount Floor
Furniture is the strongest retail category in Pembroke Pines, and the showrooms sit along Pines Boulevard in a rough price ladder. At the top, Ethan Allen at 13680 Pines Boulevard runs as a design center with four on-staff designers offering free consultations, plus custom window treatments, bedding and fabric samples to take home. It closes at 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday and runs 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday, which rules out most after-work visits.
El Dorado Furniture at 12201 Pines Boulevard is the volume option and the more interesting building. Its Boulevard concept lays the floor out as 19 themed showrooms and four boutiques rather than one open warehouse, with mattress testing areas and design appointments available. It’s open 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday to Saturday and 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sunday, it’s pet-friendly, and it sits next door to Pembroke Lakes Mall, so furniture and the mall are one stop.
Buying furniture usually means displacing furniture, and that’s the part nobody plans for. A 10×10 storage unit holds the contents of three rooms, roughly a one-bedroom apartment’s worth, which is what people take when a living room is being replaced in stages. For a single room of displaced pieces, a 5×10 unit is usually enough. South Florida humidity is hard on solid wood and upholstery, so climate-controlled storage in Pembroke Pines is worth the difference for anything you intend to keep.
For the outdoor half of a home, Flamingo Road Nursery at 1655 S Flamingo Road functions as the local garden center despite its Davie address, about 15 minutes north. It’s a 10-acre site with a nursery, hardscape, a gift shop and a cafe, open 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily.
Parking, Hours and the Weather That Decides Your Trip
Weather dictates more of a Pembroke Pines shopping day than most guides admit. NOAA’s 1991 to 2020 normals for the Fort Lauderdale airport station put July and August at a 90°F average high, and June is the wettest month at roughly 9.6 inches of rain. Through that stretch, the open-air center is a morning activity and the enclosed mall is the afternoon one. Storms usually pass within the hour, so the mall is shelter rather than a lost day, and the best time to visit Pembroke Pines guide has the month-by-month picture.
Parking is free everywhere in this guide, which is the quiet advantage of shopping in a suburb. The catch is distance, not cost. Pembroke Gardens fills its restaurant-adjacent rows first and its far rows almost never, and the mall’s lot is large enough that noting your entrance door saves 10 minutes later.
Closing times vary more than you’d expect across four miles of the same road. Ethan Allen shuts at 6 p.m., El Dorado at 8 p.m., the department stores at 9 p.m., and Burlington at 11 p.m. or later, so if you only have an evening, work backward from the earliest close. Bring children and the mall cinema absorbs the last hour; the things to do in Pembroke Pines with kids guide has more of those. One date worth marking is the city-run Pembroke Pines Artisan Market on November 21, 2026, which runs for a single day.
Frequently Asked Questions
What stores are in Pembroke Pines Mall?
Pembroke Lakes Mall at 11401 Pines Boulevard holds more than 150 specialty shops covering clothing, shoes, electronics and jewelry, along with department-store anchors including JCPenney, Macy’s and Dillard’s. Dining runs from a food court to Buffalo Wild Wings and P.F. Chang’s, and the nine-screen AMC with reserved recliners sits inside the building. The mall also promotes several first-to-market brands.
Is Pembroke Gardens a walkable shopping center?
Yes, and it’s the only walkable shopping in the city. The Shops at Pembroke Gardens is an open-air center at 527 SW 145th Terrace where more than 75 retailers and restaurants sit along connected walkways, so you park once and cover the whole thing on foot. Pets are welcome throughout. Getting there still requires a car, since no other retail is within walking distance.
Where can you do outlet shopping in Pembroke Pines?
Pembroke Pines has no outlet mall inside the city limits. The practical equivalent is its off-price stores: two Burlington locations at 11930 and 16024 Pines Boulevard, and two Ross Dress for Less stores at 11150 and 15863 Pines Boulevard. White House Black Market at Pembroke Gardens also carries outlet merchandise alongside its regular range.
Where is the boutique shopping in Pembroke Pines?
Boutique shopping in Pembroke Pines is concentrated at The Shops at Pembroke Gardens rather than spread across independent storefronts. Anthropologie, Altar’d State, South Moon Under, Steps New York, Elie Tahari and J. Jill give the center its boutique character, and White House Black Market and Chico’s cover the more tailored end. The city has no independent boutique district.
What’s the most popular shopping store in Pembroke Pines?
By traffic, Pembroke Lakes Mall is the busiest shopping destination in the city, and its department stores draw the most volume. If you mean the store locals name most often, Burlington on Pines Boulevard is a strong contender purely because it’s open until 11 p.m. most nights and 11:30 p.m. on weekends, making it the default stop when everything else has closed.
Storage Space for What You Bring Home
A furniture haul and a season of serious thrifting end the same way: the new thing arrives and the old thing has nowhere to go. Value Store It’s Sheridan Village facility rents month-to-month with no long-term contract, so a stopgap doesn’t quietly become a year you didn’t plan on. Beyond the sizes already covered, 10×5 units take a dining set and a stack of boxes while you decide what stays, and a 10×20 space is a one-car garage’s worth of room, which is what people rent when a three-bedroom home is being redone at once. If you’re unsure which fits, the storage unit size guide sorts it by contents rather than square footage. For everything else worth doing between stops, start with the guide to things to do in Pembroke Pines.
