Mall interior, 2015
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Location | Alexandria, Virginia |
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Address | Duke St., Shirley Hi-way and Van Dorn St. |
Opening date | August 4, 1965 |
Closing date | January 31, 2017 (Macy's: March 2017) |
Owner | Howard Hughes Corporation |
No. of stores and services | 20+ |
No. of anchor tenants | 2 |
Total retail floor area | 675,000 square feet (62,700 m2) |
No. of floors | 3 |
Website | landmarkmall.com |
The Landmark Mall (or Landmark Regional Shopping Center) was an American shopping mall. Located in a triangle formed by Duke Street (Virginia State Route 236), Shirley Highway (I-395), and Van Dorn Street (Virginia State Route 401) in Alexandria, Virginia, the mall opened in 1965 and closed its doors temporarily for renovation into a "urban-town" on January 31, 2017.
The mall opened on 4 August 1965, with Virginia Lt. Gov. Mills E. Godwin, Jr. cutting the ceremonial ribbon. It was the first mall in the Washington D.C. area to feature three anchor department stores; the Hecht Company (now Macy's) (163,000 sq ft), Sears and Roebuck (236,000 sq ft), and Woodward & Lothrop (later JCPenney, then Lord & Taylor, now vacant) (151,000 sq ft). By that time of its opening, it had 32 stores in the 675,000-square-foot (62,700 m2) center including Bond Clothes, Casual Corner, People's Drug Store, Raleigh Haberdasher, Thom McAn, and Waldenbooks. The center also included the second location of S&W Cafeteria in the Washington D.C. suburbs.
Originally an outdoor mall, it was enclosed in 1990.
In 2006 the mall's owner, General Growth Properties, announced its plan to convert the mall to an open-air "town center" shopping center. The plans were not realised.