| Location | White Plains, New York, U.S. |
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| Opening date | 1981 |
| Developer | Cadillac Fairview |
| Management | Simon Property Group |
| Owner | Simon Property Group (50%) & Farallon Cap. Mgt. (50%) |
| No. of anchor tenants | 2 |
The Galleria at White Plains is a large enclosed urban shopping mall located in the downtown area of White Plains, New York, a commercial and residential suburb 20 miles (32 km) north of New York City.
Built in 1981 by the Cadillac Fairview, a Canadian developer, the 900,000 square-foot, four-level mall is located on two large city blocks of former urban renewal land. Its anchor stores are Macy's and Sears, which were relocated to the mall from nearby locations to replace original anchor stores, Abraham & Straus and J.C. Penney in 1995 and 2004 respectively. The mall was constructed adjacent to a large two-block long parking garage which is connected directly to the mall at various levels.
Similar to a sister project in nearby Stamford, Connecticut (the Stamford Town Center mall), the Galleria's architectural character appears fortress-like and overwhelms even the recent high density urban quality of its downtown environment.[citation needed] Considering the general architectural design of most enclosed shopping malls, it does not have much opportunity to create an interactive streetscape along its surrounding sidewalk areas. A late 1990s enhancement tried to correct some of these physical flaws, but recent retail tenant fit-outs on the sidewalk level have closed off much of this design effort.[citation needed]
In recent years, the mall has experienced competition from the development of nearby, and more upscale, retail developments such as The Westchester mall and The Source At White Plains. A late 1990s promotional advertisement featured the tag line "Shopping for the real world", a subtle jibe at the more upscale and affluent clientele and stores at The Westchester roughly a half-mile away.[citation needed]
On January 5, 2009, a man fell two stories from the third level to the food court level in a suspected suicide attempt at the mall.[citation needed]
The Galleria, like The Westchester only a few blocks away, is now owned and operated by Simon Property Group following the collapse of the Mills Corporation.
Anchors
- H&M (23,511 sq ft.)
- Macy*s (328,599 sq ft.) formerly Abraham & Straus
- Old Navy (15,438 sq ft.)
- Sears (227,316 sq ft.) former JCPenney, which closed in 2001
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Coordinates: 41°01′53″N 73°46′15″W / 41.031262°N 73.770876°W
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