Fashion Center Pentagon City Mall Parking

Shopping mall in Virginia, United States

Fashion Centre at Pentagon City
Main court in early 2016, during the mall'southward renovation

Location	Arlington, Virginia, United States
Coordinates	38°51′47.6″N 77°three′38.6″Due west / 38.863222°N 77.060722°W / 38.863222; -77.060722 Coordinates: 38°51′47.6″N 77°3′38.6″West / 38.863222°N 77.060722°W / 38.863222; -77.060722
Opening date	Oct 5, 1989; 32 years ago (October 5, 1989)
Developer	Melvin Simon & Associates & Rose Associates
Management	Simon Property Grouping
Possessor	Simon Belongings Group (42.5%)^[1]
No. of stores and services	164
No. of anchor tenants	2
Total retail floor area	1,037,258 sq ft (96,364.4 g²)^[1]
No. of floors	4 (iii in anchors)
Public transit access	Washington Metro at Pentagon City Metrobus: 7A, 10A, 10E, 10N, 16E, 16G, 16H, 22A, Metroway Arlington Transit: 42, 74, 84, 87
Website	world wide web.simon.com/mall/way-center-at-pentagon-urban center

Fashion Centre at Pentagon City, also known every bit Pentagon City Mall, is a shopping mall in the Pentagon City neighborhood of Arlington, Virginia, near Interstate 395 and Hayes Street. Its Metro level is directly connected to the Pentagon City station on the Blue and Yellow Lines of the Washington Metro.

Completed in October 1989, the Mode Centre is the largest enclosed shopping mall in Arlington, housing 164 retailers and restaurants. It is anchored by department stores Macy'due south and Nordstrom, and is directly connected to the Ritz-Carlton Pentagon City hotel. The Washington Tower office building, formerly leased by MCI, is part of the mall property;^[2] its lower levels are office of the mall.

History [edit]

The mall was adult by Melvin Simon & Associates with real-estate investment business firm Rose Associates as part of the 1976 Pentagon Metropolis Phased-Development Site Programme.^[three] It opened in fall 1989 with 860,000 sq. ft. of space^[4] on 25 acres, with Macy'southward and Nordstrom as anchor stores (original plans were for Bambergers)^[5] and approximately 150 other stores, and a 4,524-capacity parking garage; the part tower part of the complex opened a little later on,^[6] and the 345-room hotel the following twelvemonth.^[7] The interior featured a white color scheme and skylit atria extending in two wings from the central courtyard.^[7] The mall theater, Loews Pentagon City half-dozen, airtight on January one, 2003 and was replaced by a clothing store.^[8]

Expansion of the mall, including outward-facing stores on Hayes Street, was approved by the county board in 2013,^[3] at which time information technology had more than 170 stores.^[9] ^[10] Information technology was completed in 2016.^[11] ^[12] As of 2018^[update], the mall had one.05 one thousand thousand sq ft (98 thousand one thousand²) of space.^[13]

The 2020 COVID-xix pandemic led to the closure of a number of restaurants and stores in the mall.^[14] ^[xv] ^[16]

Ownership [edit]

In late 1990, Melvin Simon & Assembly sold 50% of its interest in the mall to Lehndorff Grouping, a existent estate management firm;^[4] during 1991 it sold another 25% to other institutional investors, retaining a quarter interest and management of the eye. Simon Property Group, the successor to the Simon shopping mall interests, later on raised its stake; as of April 2014^[update] it jointly endemic the mall with Institutional Mall Investors, a joint venture of Miller Capital Advisory and CalPERS;^[9] every bit of 2019^[update], it had a 42.5% interest.^[1] The Ritz-Carlton hotel is separately owned, by Xenia Hotels & Resorts.^[1] ^[xiii]

Interior seen from the fourth floor, January 2013
Interior from around the time the mall opened

References [edit]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Annual Report 2019". Simon Property Group. p. 26. Retrieved November xi, 2020.
^ Jonah Keri (April 5, 1999). "Pentagon Metropolis edifice offered after MCI leaves". Washington Business concern Periodical . Retrieved November 11, 2020.
^ ^a ^b "Arlington County Lath Approves Expansion of Mode Centre at Pentagon City Mall". Arlington Canton, Virginia. November sixteen, 2013. Retrieved November 11, 2020.
^ ^a ^b Kara Swisher (Jan 11, 1991). "Pentagon City Mall Possessor Sells Pale". The Washington Post . Retrieved November xi, 2020.
^ Directory of major malls. MJJTM Publications. 1990. p. 631.
^ Evelyn Hsu (July 3, 1989). "New Front Eastablished In Shopping Mall Wars". The Washington Post . Retrieved November 11, 2020.
^ ^a ^b Benjamin Forgey (Dec nine, 1989). "The Inner Life Of A Mall". The Washington Mail service . Retrieved November 11, 2020.
^ Nextinline. "Loews Pentagon City 6". Cinema Treasures . Retrieved Nov 11, 2020.
^ ^a ^b "The Fashion Centre at Pentagon City Unveils Expansion and Renovation Projection" (press release). Simon Property Group. April 16, 2014. Retrieved November 11, 2020.
^ Patrick Hanafin; Madison Starr (June 25, 2015). "The Mall at Pentagon Urban center: Virginia'south side by side cracking entertainment allure?". WJLA-Idiot box.
^ "New Restaurants Opening Presently in Pentagon Urban center Mall". WTOP-FM. July 5, 2016 – via WRC-TV.
^ Dan Taylor (December 5, 2016). "iii New Retailers Moving Into Pentagon Metropolis Mall". Arlington, VA, Patch. Retrieved November 11, 2020.
^ ^a ^b Douglas Fruehling (November thirteen, 2018). "These major landowners most HQ2 are sitting pretty". Washington Business Journal . Retrieved November xi, 2020.
^ Vernon Miles (August 10, 2020) [August v, 2020]. "Style Centre at Pentagon City Remains a Ghost Town Months After Reopening". Arlington Now . Retrieved November eleven, 2020.
^ Drew Hansen (April 30, 2020). "Roots to permanently close locations in Georgetown, Pentagon City". Washington Business Journal . Retrieved November 11, 2020.
^ Drew Hansen (June 26, 2020). "three local Microsoft stores won't reopen equally tech behemothic moves away from brick-and-mortar retail". Washington Business concern Periodical . Retrieved November 11, 2020.