Tysons Galleria is a three-level super-regional mall owned by Brookfield Properties Retail Group located at 2001 International Drive in Tysons, Virginia. It is the second-largest mall in Tysons, and one of the largest in the Washington metropolitan area.
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Tysons Galleria was the third major project of the Gudelsky-Lerner partnership. The property was purchased from The Rouse Company which lost a bitter zoning dispute over the site in 1963.[1] In 1981, Lerner bought out the partnership for $21 million, before embarking on a $550 million expansion.[2] It was constructed across Virginia State Route 123 from the existing Tysons Corner Center, which was then undergoing a $160 million expansion.
Anchor store Macy’s opened first, on September 1, 1988.[3] The rest of the mall opened a month later, on October 6, 1988 as the Galleria at Tysons II,[4] adding high-end anchor department storesNeiman Marcus and Saks Fifth Avenue. 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”,[5] 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 Washington metropolitan area during this time period.[6]
The Galleria was renovated to appear more like a “European streetscape” and expanded in 1997 by Homart Development Company, who had its name changed to Tysons Galleria. Its interior was lightly remodeled to appear less like a “space walk”.[4]
The mall eventually attracted the high-end tenants that it had hoped for. National Geographic stated in its December 2002 issue that “Tysons Galleria is the Rodeo Drive of the East Coast.”[7]The Washington Post describes it as a “bright and elegant Fifth Avenue-like mall”.[8] Tysons Galleria was rated one of the top 15 sales-producing shopping centers in terms of dollars per square foot by WWD in 2003.[7]
On January 10, 2019, it was announced that Macy’s would be closing as part of a plan to close 8 stores nationwide. The store closed March 25, 2019.[9]
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