Glendale Galleria

The Glendale Galleria is a large three-story regional shopping mall located in downtown Glendale, California, USA. It is the third largest mall in Los Angeles County after Westfield Topanga and Del Amo Fashion Center.

History

Developed by Glendale Associates, a partnership between J.S. Griffiths Co, Broadway Hale Stores and M.J. Brock & Sons, the mall opened on October 14, 1976. The architect was Jon Jerde, who credited his design to a Ray Bradbury essay on reviving retail districts. The mall began with four anchor stores: Buffum's and The Broadway, which opened in August 1976; Ohrbach's, which opened in October, 1976; and JCPenney, which opened in November of that year.

The Galleria's first expansion, Galleria II, was completed in 1983. It expanded a wing of the mall and added another anchor store, Nordstrom. The first Panda Express restaurant opened in Galleria II in the same year, on level 3 near Bloomingdale's.

Mall scenes in the 1984 film Cloak & Dagger were filmed in the Galleria.