Shopping in Pompano Beach, FL happens in four places, not one: the beach shops at the Fishing Village, the thrift and consignment stores along Atlantic Boulevard, the makers and monthly markets in Old Town, and the everyday plazas on Federal Highway. The enclosed malls and the outlet center sit outside the city line, so those are a drive. This guide covers all four, the malls worth the drive, and the parking, hours and seasonal quirks that decide how the day goes.
How Pompano Beach Shopping Is Laid Out
Pompano Beach has no single shopping downtown, so stop looking for one. Retail here strings along two roads that cross near the middle of the city. Atlantic Boulevard runs east to west, from the sand out past I-95, and carries the resale trade. Federal Highway, which is US 1, runs north to south inland and carries the plazas, the department store and the outdoor mall.
Beach retail is its own pocket at the pier, and Old Town sits just west of Federal Highway toward Dixie Highway. What the city sells is small-scale and errand-driven, and the Visit Pompano Beach shopping guide sends you out of town for the big malls: south to the Galleria in Fort Lauderdale, northwest to Coconut Creek or west to Sawgrass Mills in Sunrise, each a separate half day.
Beach Shops at the Pompano Beach Fishing Village
The Fishing Village at the base of the Fisher Family Pier holds the only shopping you can do barefoot, and two shops sit in the district doing different jobs.
Alvin’s Island is the practical rescue: bathing suits, beach towels, suntan products, beach shoes, water sports equipment and resort wear, all within sight of the sand. Prices are beach-shop prices, so buy sunscreen inland if you have any warning and save Alvin’s for the emergencies.
Island Water Sports is the local specialist, a family-run surf and skate business since 1978 with a store by the pier on Pier Street. Come for boards, skate gear and apparel, and stay for the conversation, because the staff will tell you what the sandbar is doing before you rent or buy. Boards also eat a condo closet, which is why 5×5 lockers suit people who live near the water and want their gear close to it rather than in the living room.
Thrift and Consignment Along Atlantic Boulevard
Atlantic Boulevard is the resale road, with two very different stops at opposite ends of the city’s inland stretch. Start inland and work east, or pick the one that fits the errand.
Poverello Thrift Store at 172 N Powerline Road, at the Atlantic Boulevard corner, is the big one: about 7,000 square feet of furniture, designer clothing, accessories, household items and art, open daily from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., according to Poverello’s store page. It’s a charity thrift store rather than a curated resale boutique, and purchases support Poverello’s food and wellness programs, so expect a rotating, bargain-priced mix and come back often.
Thrifty & Nifty Consignment at 598 E Atlantic Blvd is the smaller, closer-in option. It runs a broad secondhand mix rather than a narrowly curated one, so it rewards repeat visits more than one scheduled trip.
Plenty of buyers here pick up a sideboard before the house has room for one, particularly snowbirds furnishing a condo in stages. A 10×10 storage unit in Pompano Beach holds a one-bedroom apartment’s worth of furniture meanwhile, and for anything wooden or upholstered, climate-controlled storage in Pompano Beach is the version that matters, because Florida humidity warps a good piece.
Makers, Galleries and Markets in Old Town Pompano
Old Town Pompano is where you shop for things a person made rather than things a company shipped. The cluster sits around NE 1st Street and Flagler Avenue, and most of it runs on a calendar rather than standing hours.
The Soulful Steep at 122 N Flagler Avenue is the exception and the most unusual shop in the city, working as a tea house, a salt cave and an emporium at once. Jewelry, soaps, artwork, crystals and loose-leaf tea share the room. It closes Mondays, opens at 10 a.m. and stays open until 9 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and 6 p.m. Sunday, one of the few places in Old Town you can browse after dinner.
The Bailey Contemporary Arts Center, known locally as BaCA, keeps working artist studios at 41 NE 1st Street, and on market nights the artists open their studios and sell their work, from pottery to paintings, according to Visit Pompano Beach’s local gift guide. Outside those nights, check the calendar first.
Old Town Untapped is the shopping night worth planning around: a free first-Friday block party from 6 to 10 p.m. around BaCA, year-round, with art and jewelry vendors, food, live music and the galleries open. The next dates are October 2, November 6 and December 4, 2026. The Pompano Beach Green Market is the other date, on second and fourth Saturdays at the Cultural Center, and the city’s events calendar has it running November through April rather than year-round. Expect local honey, baked goods, flowers, handmade jewelry and artwork.
Everyday Shopping on the Federal Highway Corridor
Federal Highway is where residents actually shop, and it’s honest errand retail rather than a browsing destination. Pompano Citi Centre at 1955 N Federal Hwy is the anchor, an outdoor center with big-box favorites, dining and even a brewery, open 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Saturday and noon to 6 p.m. Sunday, per Pompano Citi Centre. Dangerous Minds Brewing runs its taproom there, which gives a non-shopper somewhere to wait, and Rainbow Shops sits nearby on N Federal Highway for inexpensive women’s clothing.
Pompano Marketplace at 1255 S Federal Hwy is the south-end counterpart, anchored by a bealls department store at 1241 S Federal Hwy carrying clothing, shoes, home goods and beauty. The store runs 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Thursday, to 9:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday, and it’s the stop for anyone who just moved in and needs to fill a house fast. Pompano Plaza rounds out the corridor with well-known retailers and everyday essentials, and none of these plazas makes a trip memorable so much as it saves a drive to Fort Lauderdale. If you’re pairing errands with a meal, the best restaurants in Pompano Beach sit on the beach and in Old Town instead.
Malls and Outlets Within a Half-Hour Drive
The serious mall shopping is outside Pompano Beach, and the city’s tourism board says so plainly. Sawgrass Mills in Sunrise is the outlet answer, about 30 minutes west, with hundreds of stores including its Colonnade shopping area for luxury names. It’s enormous, so pick a wing and an entrance before you arrive instead of circling the lot, and go on a weekday morning if you can.
The Galleria at Fort Lauderdale is the closest full-size enclosed mall, roughly 25 minutes south and close to the beach, with familiar mall stores and dining under air conditioning. That last detail is the whole argument for it on a wet June afternoon. The Promenade at Coconut Creek is the shortest hop at about 15 minutes, an outdoor shopping center with big-name brands and restaurants that pairs neatly with Butterfly World in the same city.
Mizner Park in Boca Raton, 25 minutes north, is the stroll-and-browse evening, laid out like a park rather than a mall, and Las Olas Boulevard in Fort Lauderdale is the walkable boutique street the region does best. Both show up on most day trips from Pompano Beach. An outlet haul also raises the question of where the old version of everything goes, which a 5×10 storage unit usually answers.
Parking, Hours and Weather That Shape a Shopping Day
Parking is the biggest variable, and it’s concentrated in one spot. Beach parking is paid street and garage parking and the city’s weekend bottleneck, so if the Fishing Village shops are the Saturday plan, arrive before mid-morning or park in Old Town and take the free Circuit ride over. The plazas and malls in this guide have their own lots.
Mondays close more than you’d expect. The Soulful Steep, BaCA and Dangerous Minds Brewing all shut Monday, and several small independents keep short Monday hours. Tuesday through Saturday is the reliable window for Old Town, while the malls and plazas run seven days.
Season matters more than weather. The Green Market runs through the winter season, while Old Town Untapped runs every first Friday year-round, so a summer visitor still gets one market night. Summer afternoons bring a storm pattern, with June the wettest month at about 9.6 inches of rain according to NOAA’s climate normals. Browse outdoors in the morning and keep an indoor block for the afternoon.
Frequently Asked Questions
Where are some good places to shop around Pompano Beach, Florida?
Start with Poverello Thrift Store and Thrifty & Nifty Consignment for furniture and secondhand finds, then Pompano Citi Centre for everyday brands. The Fishing Village covers beach gear and Old Town covers handmade goods on first Fridays and green-market Saturdays. For national brands and outlets, drive to Sawgrass Mills, The Galleria or the Promenade at Coconut Creek.
Does Pompano Beach have a downtown area?
Yes, though it’s small and still developing. Old Town Pompano sits inland around NE 1st Street and Flagler Avenue, and it’s the closest thing the city has to a walkable core, holding the Cultural Center, the Bailey Contemporary Arts Center, a few restaurants and the monthly Old Town Untapped block party. It’s a few blocks rather than a district.
Is there an outlet mall in Pompano Beach?
No outlet mall sits inside Pompano Beach. The nearest is Sawgrass Mills in Sunrise, about 30 minutes west, with hundreds of stores and a luxury section called the Colonnade. Give it a half day rather than an hour, and go on a weekday morning if you want to shop rather than stand in line.
Where can you find boutique shopping in Pompano Beach?
Pompano Beach’s boutique shopping is small and independent rather than a boutique row. The Soulful Steep in Old Town sells jewelry, soaps, crystals and artwork alongside its tea list, Island Water Sports by the pier is the local surf shop, and BaCA’s artists sell their own work on Old Town Untapped nights.
What’s the most popular shopping store in Pompano Beach?
Pompano Citi Centre is the city’s main everyday shopping stop, combining big-box retail, dining and a brewery in one outdoor center. For a single department store, the bealls at Pompano Marketplace is the one inside city limits, carrying clothing, shoes, home goods and beauty.
Storing What the Shopping Trip Produced
Furniture buying and a serious outlet run end the same way, with more in the house than the house has room for. Value Store It runs two facilities in Pompano Beach, covering a box of decorations up to a boat on a trailer.
Our Pompano Beach storage facility handles the middle of that range. Past the small lockers and 5×10 units already mentioned, it runs 5×15 units for a studio apartment’s contents and 10×15 units for a two-bedroom apartment’s, 10×20 spaces and 10×30 spaces for a household mid-renovation or a retailer’s overflow stock, plus boat storage, RV parking and car storage for what won’t fit beside the house.
The second Pompano Beach site covers similar ground with a slightly different lineup. It opens with 5×5 units and 5×10 lockers, adds 5×15 storage and 10×5 units for long, narrow loads, moves through 10×10 spaces, 10×15 storage and 10×20 units, and keeps climate-controlled units for anything that warps or mildews. Boat spaces, RV storage and car spaces are there too.
Everything rents month-to-month with no long-term contract, so a unit taken for a renovation doesn’t have to outlast it. If you’re unsure what size fits what you bought, the storage size guide sizes it by room, and anyone moving to Pompano Beach can settle the space question before the truck arrives. Once the boxes are down, the rest of the city is in our guide to things to do in Pompano Beach.
