Washington Mall

Type	BUSINESS
Washington Mall
Appears in	Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
Founded	1986

Washington Mall is a shopping mall in the Grand Theft Auto: Vice City rendition of Vice City.

Description

In 1986, the shopping center is located in Ocean Beach, across the Ocean View Hospital. Its address is 2102 Washington Street.

The Washington Mall is an open air mall with two levels of shopping areas, and has working escalators, 2 nonworking elevators that also appear in the garage, and a rooftop parking lot accessible by a spiral ramp on the northeastern corner of the mall. Nevertheless, the mall's two stairwells meant to connect all three levels of the mall are blocked by yellow tape. Some vehicles will also spawn in the parking lot as well. A Unique Stunt Jump, a rampage, and a Shotgun are also located here.

As it is a open air complex, this place does not have an "indoor" setting unlike other locations such as the North Point Mall and Vercetti Estate.

The mall is also prominently featured during the mission Mall Shootout for Colonel Juan Garcia Cortez.

The mall is seemingly based on the real life Bal Harbour Shops near Miami Beach.

Vice City Stories

In 1984, the setting of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories, the mall does not exist; instead, the player finds a largely vacant lot with minimal construction work and an Empire Building lot, this could be a reference that the mall construction may have started on 1984.

Gallery

Aerial view of Washington Mall looking towards the northwest, GTA Vice City. The interior of Washington Mall, GTA Vice City. The vacant lot circa 1984 in GTA Vice City Stories (as viewed to the southwest), where Washington Mall would have been built two years later.