Glendale Galleria
The Glendale Galleria from across S. Central Ave. looking westward.
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| Location | Glendale, California, USA |
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| Coordinates | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
| Address | 100 W Broadway Suite 700 |
| Opening date | October 14, 1976[1] |
| Developer | Glendale Associates[2] |
| Owner | General Growth Properties[3] |
| Total retail floor area | 1,600,000 square feet |
| Website | Official website |
The Glendale Galleria is a large three-story regional shopping mall located in downtown Glendale, California, USA. It is the fourth largest mall in Los Angeles County after Westfield Topanga, Lakewood Center and Del Amo Fashion Center.
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History
Developed by Glendale Associates, a partnership between J.S. Griffiths Co, Broadway Hale Stores and M.J. Brock & Sons,[2] the mall opened on October 14, 1976.[1][3] The architect was Jon Jerde,[4] who credited his design to a Ray Bradbury essay on reviving retail districts.[5][6] The mall began with four anchor stores: Buffum's and The Broadway, which opened in August 1976; Ohrbach's, which opened in October, 1976; and JCPenney, which opened in November of that year.[7]
The Galleria's first expansion, Galleria II, was completed in 1983.[7] It expanded a wing of the mall and added another anchor store, Nordstrom.[8] The first Panda Express restaurant opened in Galleria II in the same year, on level 3 near Bloomingdale's.
Mall scenes in the 1984 film Cloak & Dagger were filmed in the Galleria.
The first Disney Store opened in the Glendale Galleria on March 28, 1987. By 1990, the mall was 1,600,000 square feet (150,000 m2) in size, and had annual revenues of $350 million.[9]
Glendale Galleria was selected by Apple Inc. as the location of one of the first two Apple Stores in the world (along with Tysons Corner Center in McLean, Virginia); both officially opened on May 19, 2001.[10] This mall also includes the first three-story Target in the United States, which opened in 2007.
Anchors
The mall is anchored by four department stores (with one under construction) and has over 200 specialty stores.
- JCPenney (opened in 1976)
- Macy's (opened as The Broadway in 1976; became Macy's in 1996)
- Target (opened as Buffum's in 1976; closed in 1991; became Robinson's-May in 1993; closed in 2006; became Target in 2007)
- Bloomingdale's (opened November 2013; former Mervyn's space)[11]
- Dick's Sporting Goods (opened fall 2015, 75,000 sq. ft.). Opened in part of former Nordstrom space.[12]
- Zara (opened August 2015, 35,000 sq. ft.) Store opening on the upper level of the former Ohrbach's building. All tenants formerly located in the wing have been relocated to other parts of the Galleria.[13]
Ohrbach's was also an original anchor. Its former location was demolished and the area was converted to another wing of the mall with smaller stores. Nordstrom originally opened in 1983 and was formerly located in the Galleria before relocating next door to the Americana at Brand in 2013.[14]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. ("A milestone event in Southland retail merchandising will take place in Glendale on Thursday, October 14, when the 1,000-foot long shopping mall of the $70-million Glendale Galleria...")
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- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. ("This all led to the 1976 birth of the Glendale Galleria, the super-regional mall so huge it extended across several city blocks. ... General Growth Properties Inc., owner of the Glendale Galleria")
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. ("Los Angeles area's mega-mall expert, Jon Jerde, designer of Universal City's CityWalk, the Westside Pavilion and Glendale Galleria")
- ↑ Weller, Sam. The Bradbury chronicles: the life of Ray Bradbury p.292 (William Morrow 2005) (ISBN 978-0060545819)
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- ↑ http://articles.glendalenewspress.com/2012-04-27/news/tn-gnp-0428-galleria-revamp-gets-underway_1_galleria-management-indoor-mall-food-court
- ↑ http://www.glendalenewspress.com/news/tn-gnp-dicks-sporting-goods-to-take-over-former-nordstroms-space-at-galleria-20150120,0,7102876.story
- ↑ http://articles.glendalenewspress.com/2014-04-11/news/tn-gnp-galleria-americana-to-offer-new-stores-eateries-20140411_1_americana-glendale-galleria-new-bloomingdale
- ↑ http://articles.glendalenewspress.com/2013-09-19/news/tn-gnp-nordstrom-opens-at-americana-at-brand-20130919_1_topman-americana-bar-verde
