Washington Square (Oregon)
Exterior of the mall's 2005 addition
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Tigard, Oregon 45°27′02″N 122°46′52″W / 45.450618°N 122.7811°WCoordinates: 45°27′02″N 122°46′52″W / 45.450618°N 122.7811°W |
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| Opening date | 1973 |
| Developer | Winmar Pacific, Inc. |
| Management | The Macerich Company |
| Owner | The Macerich Company & OTPP |
| No. of stores and services | 170 |
| No. of anchor tenants | 5 |
| Total retail floor area | 1,458,734 sq ft (135,520 m2) (GLA) |
| No. of floors | 2 |
| Parking | 6,700 |
| Public transit access | Washington Square Transit Center |
| Website | Official Website |
Washington Square is a shopping mall in the city of Tigard, Oregon, United States. Located in the Portland metropolitan area along Oregon Route 217, the shopping complex is one of the top grossing malls per square foot in the United States, with sales of $716/ft². Opened in 1973, the mall is currently managed and co-owned by The Macerich Company, a real estate investment trust, and is anchored by Macy's, Nordstrom, JCPenney, Sears and Dick's Sporting Goods.
On May 3, 1972, plans for Oregon's largest shopping mall at that time were announced by Winmar Pacific, Inc., a developer bought by Safeco in 1967. It was to be a 130-acre (0.53 km2) development with space for 100 stores. The mall was to include over 1,000,000 square feet (93,000 m2) on 85 acres (340,000 m2) in an L-shaped pattern. On August 16, 1973, Meier & Frank became the first tenant to open at the mall. Sears and Lipman's then opened that November, followed by Liberty House and Nordstrom during the summer of 1974. The grand opening of the facility began on February 21, 1974. It is located southwest of Portland in an area known as Progress, which at the time was entirely unincorporated and located between the cities of Beaverton and Tigard.
In April 1978, the Liberty House store, located on the mall's north side, was taken over by Frederick & Nelson (F&N). The following year, Frederick & Nelson acquired the entire Lipman's chain, and in connection with that acquisition, F&N moved within the mall from the space it had occupied for only one year to the much larger ex-Lipman's space, on the mall's west side. Mervyn's took over the space vacated by F&N and originally occupied by Liberty House, opening its 80,000-square-foot (7,400 m2) store in October 1979.
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