Glendale Galleria
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| Location | Glendale, California, USA |
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| Opening date | October 14, 1976[1] |
| Developer | Glendale Associates[2] |
| Owner | General Growth Properties[3] |
| Website | Official Website |
The Glendale Galleria is a large three-story regional shopping mall located in downtown Glendale, California and is the second largest mall in Los Angeles County.
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[edit] 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]
It was the location for the first Panda Express restaurant that opened in 1983. By 1990, the mall was 1,600,000 square feet (150,000 m2) in size, and had annual revenues of $350 million.[6]
This mall also includes the first three-story Target in the United States. It was also selected by Apple Inc. as the location of one of the first two Apple Stores in the world; both officially opened on May 19, 2001.
[edit] Department stores
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.)
- Nordstrom (opened in 1983, relocating to Americana at Brand in Fall 2013.)
- 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 (opening Fall 2013, former Mervyn's space.)
[edit] Transit
The Glendale Galleria can be accessed by many transit lines:
Metro Local: 92, 180, 181, 183, 201, 603
Metro Rapid: 780
Glendale Beeline: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 11
[edit] References
- ^ a b "Glendale Galleria Mall Opens to Public". Los Angeles Times. October 13, 1976. http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/658566712.html?dids=658566712:658566712&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Oct+13%2C+1976&author=&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=Glendale+Galleria+Mall+Opens+to+Public&pqatl=google. Retrieved March 11, 2010. ("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...")
- ^ a b "Financing Set for Galleria in Glendale". Los Angeles Times. June 2, 1974. http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/645246312.html?dids=645246312:645246312&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Jun+02%2C+1974&author=&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=Financing+Set+for+Galleria+in+Glendale&pqatl=google. Retrieved March 11, 2010.
- ^ a b Brent Hopkins (October 27, 2009). "Mall for a new generation". Los Angeles Daily News. http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-138024208/mall-new-generation.html. Retrieved March 11, 2010. ("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")
- ^ Lieberman, Paul; Efron, Sonni (March 10, 2000). "MOMA to Advise Tokyo Museum et al.". Los Angeles Times. http://articles.latimes.com/2000/mar/10/entertainment/ca-7235. Retrieved March 11, 2010. ("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)
- ^ Andrea Adelson (July 8, 1990). "Glendale, Calif.; 2 Office Towers Rising at Last". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/1990/07/08/realestate/national-notebook-glendale-calif-2-office-towers-rising-at-last.html?pagewanted=all. Retrieved March 11, 2010.
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