Venturing to Aventura
By Nicholas Jurkowski

Aventura may be the only city in America actually named after the mall that was already in the city at the time of incorporation. It isn’t a bad place and, as you might imagine, the mall dominates the list of Aventura-related attractions. Predictably, this is going to be the attraction that I focus on.

Dominating the Aventura landscape, the Aventura Mall has over 250 stores to choose from, plus 18 food court destinations and full-fledged restaurants. It includes, naturally, a movie theater (in the form of a 24 screen megaplex) as well as a giant indoor playground for the young (or young at heart, as long as they don’t mind being escorted off the premises by security when the children complain). In the confines of this sprawling, gargantuan monument to consumerism,