Tysons Galleria

Tysons Galleria is an upscale three-level super-regional mall owned by General Growth Properties located at 2001 International Drive, McLean, Virginia, in Tysons Corner. It is the second-largest mall in McLean/Tysons Corner, and one of the largest in the Washington metropolitan area.

History

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. In 1981, Lerner bought out the partnership for $21 million, before embarking on a $550 million expansion. The mall opened with high-end department stores Neiman Marcus and Saks 5th Avenue in 1988 across Virginia State Route 123 from Tysons Corner Center. 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". It was previously known as the Galleria at Tysons II. It had annual sales of $262 per square foot, below the market average for malls in the Washington metropolitan area in the early 1990s.