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                     U.S. SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             Washington, D.C. 20549

                                     FORM 4

                  STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP

    Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
       Section 17(a) of the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 or
               Section 30(f) of the Investment Company Act of 1940

[_]  Check box if no longer  subject of Section 16. Form 4 or Form 5 obligations
     may continue. See Instruction 1(b).

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1.   Name and Address of Reporting Person*

   Johnson                           Bruce                          M.
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   (Last)                           (First)                     (Middle)

                       121 West Forsyth Street, Suite 200
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                                    (Street)

  Jacksonville                        FL                         32202
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   (City)                           (State)                      (Zip)

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2.   Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol

                        Regency Centers Corporation (REG)
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3.   IRS Identification Number of Reporting Person, if an Entity (Voluntary)

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4.   Statement for Month/Day/Year

                               September 30, 2002
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5.   If Amendment, Date of Original (Month/Day/Year)


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6.   Relationship of Reporting Person to Issuer
     (Check all applicable)

     [_]  Director                             [_]  10% Owner
     [X]  Officer (give title below)           [_]  Other (specify below)

                   Executive Vice President, Managing Director
                          and Chief Financial Officer
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7.   Individual or Joint/Group Filing (Check applicable line)

     [X]  Form filed by one Reporting Person
     [_]  Form filed by more than one Reporting Person
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           Table I -- Non-Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of,
                             or Beneficially Owned
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                                                                                                   5.
                                                                                                   Amount of
                                                                                                   Securities   6.
                                                                   4.                              Beneficially Owner-
                                                                   Securities Acquired (A) or      Owned        ship
                                           2A.        3.           Disposed of (D)                 Following    Form:     7.
                              2.           Deemed     Transaction  (Instr. 3, 4 and 5)             Reported     Direct    Nature of
                              Trans-       Execution  Code         ------------------------------- Trans-       (D) or    Indirect
1.                            action       Date,      (Instr. 8)                  (A)              action(s)    Indirect  Beneficial
Title of Security             Date         if any     ------------                or               (Instr.      (I)       Ownership
(Instr. 3)                    (mm/dd/yy)   (mm/dd/yy)  Code    V       Amount     (D)    Price     3 & 4)       (Instr.4) (Instr. 4)
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Common Stock                  09/30/02                 D(1)            20,227     D      $31.00
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Common Stock                  09/30/02                 D(2)               835     D      $31.00
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Common Stock                  09/30/02                 A(3)             4,988     A       (3)      95,523       D
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*    If the Form is filed by more than one Reporting Person, see Instruction
     4(b)(v).

Reminder: Report on a separate line for each class of securities beneficially
          owned directly or indirectly.

                            (Print or Type Responses)
                                                                          (Over)
(Form 4-07/98)



FORM 4 (continued)

Table II -- Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned
         (e.g., puts, calls, warrants, options, convertible securities)

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                                                                                                                    10.
                                                                                                          9.        Owner-
                                                                                                          Number    ship
                                                                                                          of Deriv- Form
               2.                                                                                         ative
               Conver-                            5.                            7.                        Secur-    Deriv-  11.
               sion                               Number of                     Title and Amount          ities     ative   Nature
               or               3A.               Derivative   6.               of Underlying     8.      Bene-     Secur-  of
               Exer-            Deemed   4.       Securities   Date             Securities        Price   ficially  ity:    In-
               cise     3.      Execu-   Trans-   Acquired (A) Exercisable and  (Instr. 3 and 4)  of      Owned     Direct  direct
               Price    Trans-  tion     action   or Disposed  Expiration Date  ----------------  Deriv-  Following (D) or  Bene-
1.             of       action  Date,    Code     of(D)        (Month/Day/Year)          Amount   ative   Reported  In-     ficial
Title of       Deriv-   Date    if any   (Instr.  (Instr. 3,   ----------------          or       Secur-  Trans-    direct  Owner-
Derivative     ative    (Month/ (Month/    8)       4 and 5)    Date    Expira-          Number   ity     action(s) (I)     ship
Security       Secur-   Day/    Day/     ------   ------------ Exer-    tion             of       (Instr  (Instr.   (Instr. (Instr.
(Instr. 3)     ity      Year)   Year)    Code V    (A)  (D)    cisable  Date     Title   Shares    5)     4)        4)       4)
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Employee
stock option                                                                     Common
(right to buy) $31.00   09/30/02         A         19,380      09/30/02 01/13/07 Stock   19,380           19,380    D
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Employee
stock option                                                                     Common
(right to buy) $31.00   09/30/02         A          1,682      09/30/02 01/01/06 Stock    1,682            1,682    D
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Explanation of Responses:

(1)      Represents shares delivered to the issuer in full payment of recourse
         stock loans made by the issuer in 1994 and 1997 to enable the reporting
         person to buy shares of common stock under the issuer's Long Term
         Omnibus Plan. Although the loans pre-dated, and therefore would be
         grandfathered under, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 even if the
         reporting person were an executive officer, the issuer's compensation
         committee determined that it would be in the best interests of the
         company for the executive to prepay these loans in view of the
         Sarbanes-Oxley Act.

(2)      Represents shares delivered to issuer in full payment of income tax
         liability in connection with the delivery of shares in repayment of the
         stock loans.

(3)      Represents restricted shares (subject to vesting requirements) granted
         under the Long Term Omnibus Plan.


       /s/ Linda Y. Kelso                                    October 2, 2002
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      Linda Y. Kelso, as attorney-in-fact                           Date
      for Bruce M. Johnson

**     Intentional misstatements or omissions of facts constitute Federal
       Criminal Violations.

       See 18 U.S.C. 1001 and 15 U.S.C. 78ff(a).

Note:  File three copies of this Form, one of which must be manually signed.
       If space provided is insufficient, see Instruction 6 for procedure.


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