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17-457: Tysons Galleria was the third major project of the Gudelsky- Lerner partnership. The property was purchased from The Rouse Company which lost a bitter zoning dispute over the site in 1963. In 1981, Lerner bought out the partnership for $ 21 million, before embarking on a $ 550 million expansion. It was constructed across Virginia State Route 123 from the existing Tysons Corner Center , which

34-540: A component of MWCOG, is the federally designated Metropolitan Planning Organization for the metropolitan Washington area. The Baltimore Metropolitan Council is the equivalent organization for the Baltimore portion of the combined Baltimore–Washington metropolitan area. The BMC, which was created in 1992 as the successor to the Regional Planning Council and Baltimore Regional Council of Governments, consists of

51-405: A movie theater. Tysons Galleria features valet parking and concierge services, including having large purchases delivered and organized into customers' closets. The mall has given consistently big-spending customers reserved parking spaces. The Galleria also has foreign currency exchanges, day spas , security escorts, and taxi services. An adjacent Ritz-Carlton hotel is accessible from inside

68-482: A population of 1,150,309. The counties and independent cities and their groupings that comprise the area are listed below with their 2012 population estimates. Central counties/cities (designated as such by OMB) for each MSA are shown in italics. Founded in 1957, the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (MWCOG) is a regional organization of 23 Washington-area local governments, members of

85-715: Is designated by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) as the Washington–Baltimore–Arlington, DC–MD–VA–WV–PA Combined Statistical Area . It is composed primarily of two major metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs), the Washington–Arlington–Alexandria, DC–VA–MD–WV MSA and the Baltimore–Columbia–Towson, Maryland Metropolitan Statistical Area. Five smaller urban areas not contiguous to the main urban area but having strong commuting ties with

102-404: Is mostly due to their proximity to the area, the size of their commuter population, and by the influence of local broadcasting stations. The population of the entire Washington–Baltimore Combined Statistical Area as of the 2020 census was 9,973,383. The area's most-populous city is Washington, D.C. with a population of 689,545, and the area's most populous county is Fairfax County, Virginia , with

119-454: The Maryland and Virginia state legislatures, the U.S. Senate , and the U.S. House of Representatives . MWCOG provides a forum for discussion and the development of regional responses to issues regarding the environment, transportation, public safety, homeland security, affordable housing, community planning, and economic development. The National Capital Region Transportation Planning Board,

136-577: The Baltimore region's elected executives, representing Baltimore City and Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Carroll, Harford and Howard counties. The Baltimore Regional Transportation Board is the federally recognized Metropolitan Planning Organization for transportation planning in the Baltimore region. Maryland's Washington suburbs are a major center for biotechnology . Prominent local biotechnology companies include MedImmune , United Therapeutics , The Institute for Genomic Research , Human Genome Sciences , and

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170-731: The main area are included in the metropolitan area: Hagerstown–Martinsburg, Maryland–West Virginia MSA, the Chambersburg–Waynesboro, Pennsylvania MSA, the Winchester, VA–WV MSA , the California–Lexington Park, Maryland MSA, and the Easton, Maryland micropolitan statistical area (μSA). Some counties, such as Caroline and King George County, Virginia , are not officially designated by OMB as members of this metropolitan area but still consider themselves members anyway. This

187-769: The mall. The hotel attracts wealthy visitors from Europe , the Middle East , and the Far East , who in turn help fuel sales of the mall's high-end goods. FAO Schwarz operated a three-level store that closed in 2001. The mall also had one of the original locations of Tiffany & Co.'s Iridesse . Several designers, including Bally , Balenciaga, Burberry , Bottega Veneta , Cartier , Celine , Chanel , Crate & Barrel, David Yurman , De Beers , Elie Tahari , Ermenegildo Zegna , Gucci , Louis Vuitton , Prada , Saint Laurent , Salvatore Ferragamo , Tory Burch , Vilebrequin , Van Cleef & Arpels, Tumi and Versace , have some of

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204-480: The older Tysons Corner Center retroactively as "Tysons I". In the early 1990s, the shopping center had annual sales of $ 262 per square foot, below the market average for malls in the Washington metropolitan area during this time period. The Galleria was renovated to appear more like a "European streetscape" and expanded in 1997 by Homart Development Company , who had its name changed to Tysons Galleria . Its interior

221-578: The only statewide and Baltimore-Washington area boutiques in Tysons Galleria or the largest of the areas locations. The mall is anchored by Neiman Marcus and Saks Fifth Avenue . The mall also contains full-service restaurants are Wildfire , The Cheesecake Factory , Maggiano's Little Italy and P.F. Chang's China Bistro . 38°55′26″N 77°13′30″W  /  38.92391°N 77.22505°W  / 38.92391; -77.22505 Ted Lerner Too Many Requests If you report this error to

238-550: The overlapping metropolitan areas of Washington, D.C. and Baltimore . The region includes Central Maryland , Northern Virginia , three counties in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia , and one county in south-central Pennsylvania . It is the most educated, highest-income, and third-most populous combined statistical area in the United States behind New York City–Newark, NJ and Los Angeles–Long Beach . The area

255-458: Was announced Macy's , which has maintained a separate location at Tysons Corner Center since 2006 (when it was converted from Hecht's ), would close, and be reconstructed into mall space, featuring tenants such as Restoration Hardware (relocated from Tysons Corner Center), Crate & Barrel (relocated from a standalone store in Tysons), Arhaus (relocated from Tysons Corner Center), Bowlero , and

272-607: Was lightly remodeled to appear less like a "space walk". The mall eventually attracted the high-end tenants that it had hoped for. National Geographic stated in its December 2002 issue that "Tysons Galleria is the Rodeo Drive of the East Coast ." The Washington Post describes it as a "bright and elegant Fifth Avenue -like mall". Tysons Galleria was rated one of the top 15 sales-producing shopping centers in terms of dollars per square foot by WWD in 2003. On January 10, 2019, it

289-538: Was then undergoing a $ 160 million expansion. Anchor store Macy's opened first, on September 1, 1988. The rest of the mall opened a month later, on October 6, 1988, as the Galleria at Tysons II , adding high-end anchor department stores Neiman Marcus and Saks Fifth Avenue . The mall is a part of the $ 500 million ($ 1 billion in 2014 dollars) office development The Corporate Office Centre at Tysons II , leading regional residents to refer to Tysons Galleria as "Tysons II", and

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