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Tysons Galleria is a three-level
super-regional mall A shopping mall (or simply mall) is a North American term for a large indoor shopping center, usually anchored by department stores. The term "mall" originally meant a pedestrian promenade with shops along it (that is, the term was used to ref ...
owned by
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located at 2001 International Drive in
Tysons, Virginia Tysons, also known as Tysons Corner, is a census-designated place (CDP) in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States, developed from the corner of Chain Bridge Road ( SR 123) and the Leesburg Pike ( SR 7). Located in Northern Virginia between the ...
. It is the second-largest mall in Tysons, and one of the largest in the
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.


History

Tysons Galleria was the third major project of the Gudelsky-
Lerner Lerner is a German and Jewish family name. Its literal meaning can be either "student" or "scholar". It may refer to: Organizations * Lerner Enterprises, a real estate company * Lerner Newspapers * Lerner Publishing Group, a publisher of child ...
partnership. The property was purchased from
The Rouse Company The Rouse Company, founded by Hunter Moss and James W. Rouse in 1939, was a publicly held shopping mall and community developer from 1956 until 2004, when General Growth Properties (GGP) purchased the company. Beginnings - Moss-Rouse Company T ...
which lost a bitter zoning dispute over the site in 1963. In 1981, Lerner bought out the partnership for $21 million, before embarking on a $550 million expansion. It was constructed across
Virginia State Route 123 State Route 123 (SR 123) is a primary state highway in the U.S. state of Virginia. The state highway runs from U.S. Route 1 (US 1) in Woodbridge north to the Chain Bridge across the Potomac River into Washington from Arlington. It goes by ...
from the existing
Tysons Corner Center Tysons Corner Center is a shopping mall in the unincorporated area of Tysons in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States (between McLean and Vienna, Virginia). It opened to the public in 1968, becoming one of the first fully enclosed, climate-contr ...
, which was then undergoing a $160 million expansion. Anchor store Macy's opened first, on September 1, 1988. The rest of the mall opened a month later, on October 6, 1988, as the ''Galleria at Tysons II'', adding high-end anchor
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s
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and
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. The mall is a part of the $500 million ($1 billion in 2014 dollars) office development ''The Corporate Office Centre at Tysons II'', leading regional residents to refer to Tysons Galleria as "Tysons II", and the older Tysons Corner Center retroactively as "Tysons I". In the early 1990s, the shopping center had annual sales of $262 per square foot, below the market average for malls in the
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during this time period. The Galleria was renovated to appear more like a "European streetscape" and expanded in 1997 by
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, who had its name changed to ''Tysons Galleria''. Its interior was lightly remodeled to appear less like a "space walk". The mall eventually attracted the high-end tenants that it had hoped for. ''
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'' stated in its December 2002 issue that "Tysons Galleria is the
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of the
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." ''
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'' describes it as a "bright and elegant
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-like mall". Tysons Galleria was rated one of the top 15 sales-producing shopping centers in terms of dollars per square foot b
WWD
in 2003. On January 10, 2019, it was announced
Macy's Macy's (originally R. H. Macy & Co.) is an American chain of high-end department stores founded in 1858 by Rowland Hussey Macy. It became a division of the Cincinnati-based Federated Department Stores in 1994, through which it is affiliated wi ...
, which has maintained a separate location at Tysons Corner Center since 2006 (when it was converted from
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), would close, and be reconstructed into mall space, featuring tenants such as
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(relocated from Tysons Corner Center),
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(relocated from a standalone store in Tysons),
Arhaus Arhaus is an American retail chain that designs and sells home furnishings online and through its retail stores and catalogs. The company is headquartered in Boston Heights, Ohio. History Arhaus was founded in 1986 by John Reed and his father, J ...
(relocated from Tysons Corner Center),
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, and a movie theater.


Layout and tenants

Tysons Galleria features
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and
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services, including having large purchases delivered and organized into customers' closets. The mall has given consistently big-spending customers reserved parking spaces. The Galleria also has foreign currency exchanges,
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s, security escorts, and taxi services. An adjacent
Ritz-Carlton The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, LLC is an American multinational company that operates the luxury hotel chain known as The Ritz-Carlton. The company has 108 luxury hotels and resorts in 30 countries and territories with 29,158 rooms, in addit ...
hotel is accessible from inside the mall. The hotel attracts wealthy visitors from
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, the
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, and the
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, who in turn help fuel sales of the mall's high-end goods.
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operated a three-level store that closed in 2001. The mall also had one of the original locations of Tiffany & Co.'s Iridesse. Several designers, including
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, Balenciaga,
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, Bottega Veneta,
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, Celine,
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, Crate & Barrel,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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, Saint Laurent,
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,
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,
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, Van Cleef & Arpels, Tumi and
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, have some of the only statewide and Baltimore-Washington area boutiques in Tysons Galleria or the largest of the areas locations. The mall is anchored by
Neiman Marcus Neiman Marcus Group, Inc. is an American integrated luxury retailer headquartered in Dallas, Texas, which owns Neiman Marcus, Bergdorf Goodman, Horchow, and Last Call. Since September 2021, NMG has been owned by a group of investment compani ...
and
Saks Fifth Avenue Saks Fifth Avenue (originally Saks & Company; Colloquialism, colloquially Saks) is an American Luxury goods, luxury department store chain headquartered in New York City and founded by Andrew Saks. The original store opened in the F Street and ...
.


See also

* Fairfax Square


References


External links


Official site
{{Brookfield Properties Brookfield Properties Shopping malls in Virginia Buildings and structures in Fairfax County, Virginia Tourist attractions in Fairfax County, Virginia Shopping malls established in 1988 1988 establishments in Virginia Shopping malls in the Washington metropolitan area Tysons, Virginia