I doubt the MOA owners are just going to stop their plans. These have been in the works for over 10 years.Looks like MOA will no longer be the largest mall in the US! The same owners are building a larger one in Miami. Does this mean phase 1C is the final phase? Or will the complete phase 2 still happen?
http://bringmethenews.com/2015/03/06/sk ... gest-mall/
As far as the new mall - I'll believe it when I see it. Recall that the MOA was originally planned to be MUCH larger than the present structure. Various hurdles stopped that from happening, and I think some of those articles about the new Miami American Dream Mall are completely conceptual "arm-chair imagineering" at this point -- essentially what they would build if they didn't have any constraints.
Just to make it clear the MOA and the ADM malls are owned by the same company so the fact that this project is happening should not affect the timeline of the MOA expansion specifically. I would even go so far as predicting that once the MOA connects to Ikea and ADM is opening we will see the MOA rebranded
American Dream Miami
American Dream New Jersey
American Dream Minnesota
Considering the MOA only draws mostly regional traffic a rebranding shouldn't affect to much, yet it should allow for a streamline resort mall brand to become easily identifiable. I wonder if we might even see a few more American Dream malls pop up provided AD Miami is successful. Pretty exciting if you ask me.