Northgate Mall (Seattle)
| Location | Northgate, Seattle, Washington |
|---|---|
| Opening date | April 21, 1950 |
| Developer | Allied Stores |
| Management | Simon Property Group |
| Owner | Simon Property Group |
| No. of stores and services | over 125 |
| No. of anchor tenants | 4 |
| Total retail floor area | 984,000 sq ft (91,400 m2) |
| No. of floors | 1 |
| Website | Official Website |
Northgate Mall is a shopping mall in the Northgate district of north urban Seattle, Washington. It is anchored by Bed Bath & Beyond, JCPenney, Macy's and Nordstrom.
An open-air retail hub in the northern environs of Seattle, Northgate Mall was one of the first post-war, suburban mall-type shopping centers in the United States. Originally known as Northgate Center, it began business with 18 stores in April 1950. By 1952, the fully leased structure housed over seventy tenants, and the adjoined 4-story Northgate Building medical/dental center and Northgate Theatre, which seated over 1300 patrons.
Northgate was the first of three Puget Sound-area malls developed by Allied Stores (parent company of The Bon Marché) and designed by Seattle architect John Graham, Jr. The development was built over part of Thornton Creek, on land that had been a cranberry bog in Maple Leaf neighborhood. Northgate was the first regional shopping center in the United States to be described as a mall, in this instance a double row of stores facing each other across a covered pedestrian walkway, and was the first mall to have public restrooms.
In 1952, Redmond sculptor Dudley C. Carter designed and carved the 59-foot (18 m) cedar totem pole that decorated the grand entrance to the central retail corridor, known as the "Miracle Mall". The shopping center was originally anchored by The Bon Marché (renamed Macy's 2005). There were also a J.J. Newberry 5 and 10, Butler Brothers variety store and an A & P Supermarket.
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