The mall at Brickell City Centre is opening to the public tomorrow (with a big la de da party tonight that I’m really looking forward to). Yesterday, after touring the mall with a bunch of other media nobs I got to check out BCC’s brand-spanking-new Saks Fifth Avenue, which I’m told is the first new Saks to come to South Florida in thirty years. Or was it forty? Well, since the one at Dadeland Mall opened at any rate, and that one’s been around a while. Check it out.

First floor: cosmetics

A translucent bubble for trying on jewelry, privately.

The ‘Fifth Avenue Club’ in the ladies department. It’s sort of like a locker room, but instead of lockers there are private suites to have shoe-shopping parties in.

The ladies’ department.

Third floor: Men’s.

The Men’s lounge. A pool table is going in here.

Whiskey bar in the men’s lounge.