Saint Louis Galleria

The Saint Louis Galleria (or St. Louis Galleria) is a shopping mall in the St. Louis suburb of Richmond Heights. The mall is owned and operated by General Growth Properties. Originally the site of the Westroads Shopping Center anchored by Stix Baer & Fuller, the property was sold in 1984 to Hycel Properties, which demolished most of the mall (but not the Stix store) and built the Saint Louis Galleria. Dillard's, which had acquired the old Stix chain, expanded the existing location at the same time, while retailer Mark Shale opened a major store. In 1991, the building was expanded south of the Atrium. The Clayton Famous Barr store moved to the Galleria, and the May company also opened a Lord & Taylor store on the south end. The addition also included an emergency electric generator that can supply limited lighting and monitoring functions (but not full operations) during a power failure. The mall receives external electric service from four points. It adapted the enclosed delivery corridor concept (but very little of the actual structure) from the Westroads design. Trucks enter on the south end and exit on the north end. The original loading dock for the Stix store (which remains in operation) is very similar in design to the loading dock at River Roads Mall, another Stix-developed shopping mall.

The Galleria is where the first Build-A-Bear Workshop opened in 1997 and many others have opened since.

The Saint Louis Galleria hosts the flagship St. Louis stores of Gap Inc, Urban Outfitters, Jimmy'z, Janie and Jack, and many other stores, including one of the metropolitan area's two Apple Stores. The shopping center has an independent movie theater with six screens. The below-ground food court was renovated just in time for the holiday season of 2005; controversially, all local and regional restaurants were replaced with chain restaurants, reducing selection.

In 2006, two brawls between rowdy teenagers less than six months apart prompted officials on April 20, 2007, to require anyone under 16 to be accompanied by someone at least 21 years old on Fridays and Saturdays after 3 p.m. [cite web | url=http://www.saintlouisgalleria.com/html/mallinfo.asp | title="Mall information page"] [cite news| title="Despite weekend brawl, security officials at Galleria say mall is safe" |url=http://www.kmov.com/topstories/stories/kmov_localnews_061113_mallbrawl.32ddd94d.html | date=2006-11-13 | accessdate=2007-05-09]

Nordstrom has confirmed that it demolish the Lord & Taylor store and open a larger store on the site in 2010.

Anchor stores

* Dillard's [http://www.saintlouisgalleria.com/mallmap.asp?mallid=476 Saint Louis Galleria Store Directory] ; Saint Louis Galleria web site; retrieved December 28, 2006] "(opened 1984, 330,000 ft²)"
* Macy's "(opened 1991 as Famous-Barr, became Macy's 2006, 265,000 ft²)"
* Mark Shale "(27,000 ft²)"
* Nordstrom "(opening spring 2010 on site of demolished Lord & Taylor)"

References

Frank Trampe's River Roads Collection (See the talk page.)

A self-described Advertising Accent Section for the Galleria from the Saint Louis Post-Dispatch from Sunday, September 13 of year #1987

External links

* [http://www.saintlouisgalleria.com/ Saint Louis Galleria]
* [http://galleria6.stlouiscinemas.com/ Saint Louis Galleria 6 Movie Theatre]