Dolce & Gabbana is coming to Tampa. The Italian fashion house headlines eleven new retailers bound for International Plaza, the Westshore shopping center at 2223 N. Westshore Boulevard, arriving with a 50,000-square-foot open-air expansion that Simon Property Group is building on the mall's exterior. Seven of the eleven are new to the Tampa market, the center announced in mid-July.
Dolce & Gabbana and fine jeweler Roberto Coin deepen the center's luxury bench alongside its existing designer anchors. The rest of the incoming class runs from activewear to accessible design: Vuori, Kendra Scott, the Gen Z label Edikted, the artist-branded BRITTO, Rowan, Bissinger's Handcrafted Chocolatier, and Ceviche Tapas Bar and Restaurant, plus a returning Pottery Barn with a companion Pottery Barn Kids. Pottery Barn's arrival is a return to Tampa rather than a debut, which is part of why seven of the eleven, not all, count as new to the market. When the wave finishes, International Plaza will carry more than 170 stores.
The openings are staged rather than simultaneous. BRITTO, Bissinger's, and Rowan are already open. Vuori and Ceviche Tapas Bar are expected to debut this summer. The marquee names, Dolce & Gabbana and Roberto Coin among them, along with Kendra Scott and Pottery Barn, are scheduled for the fall, timed to the exterior buildout.
The retail lineup is the visible half of a larger project. Simon Property Group is spending more than $250 million to redevelop three of its flagship centers nationally, part of a push to concentrate luxury tenants in high-growth markets, and International Plaza is the Tampa piece. Its share is the 50,000-square-foot exterior expansion, first announced in February 2026, designed as a walkable open-air wing that adds storefronts along the building's edge rather than carving new interior corridors. The project also reworks Bay Street, the outdoor dining and lifestyle district that fronts the mall, so the incoming tenants open into a remade streetscape rather than a concourse already at capacity.
The scale of the commitment is the story for Tampa. Westshore is the western edge of the city's business core, minutes from Tampa International Airport, and International Plaza occupies its most visible parcel as the region's premier shopping destination. Landing Dolce & Gabbana there puts the center in the same luxury conversation as South Florida's Bal Harbour Shops and Aventura Mall, a tier Tampa's retail market has rarely claimed on its own. Simon's choice to route flagship dollars to Westshore rather than to any of its national holdings reads as a bet on the market's trajectory as much as on the mall.
The next marker is the fall opening wave, when the luxury tenants arrive and the open-air expansion comes online. Confirmations and store-by-store dates are posting through International Plaza's Instagram as each opening nears.
