Northgate Mall (Seattle)

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Northgate Mall
Mall facts and statistics
Location Northgate, Seattle, Washington
Opening date 1950
Developer Allied Stores
Management Simon Property Group
Owner Simon Property Group
No. of stores and services over 125
No. of anchor tenants 3
Total retail floor area 980,000 ft²
Parking lots and garages, entrances on all four sides
No. of floors 1
Website simon.com/Northgate Mall

Northgate Mall is a shopping mall in the Northgate district of north urban Seattle, Washington. It was the first regional shopping center in the United States to be described as a mall, opening in 1950[dubious — see talk page]. It is currently anchored by JCPenney, Macy's and Nordstrom.

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[edit] History

Northgate Mall opened with eighteen stores to instant success in 1950.[1] 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. [2][3] 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.

In 1952, Redmond sculptor Dudley C. Carter designed and carved the 59-foot cedar totem pole that decorates the grand entrance to the mall. The mall was originally anchored by The Bon Marché (renamed Macy's 2005).

Other tenants signing on early that still exist were National Bank of Commerce (bought by Norwest, renamed Wells Fargo), locally-owned Nordstrom shoes (which opened a full-fledged anchor store in 1965), and later JCPenney and Lamonts. After the aquisition of the Lamonts department store chain by Gottschalks in 2000, Gottschalks was located at Northgate Mall until September 2006. It closed after six years due to underperforming sales, and the former location is currently under construction to become a Bed, Bath, & Beyond.

Capitalizing on Northgate's success, Allied Stores commissioned Graham to design the fully enclosed Tacoma Mall, which opened in 1964, and Tukwila's Southcenter Mall in 1968. Northgate was enclosed in 1974. By 1980, there were 123 stores. Construction began summer 2006 on a 100,000 square foot addition to the mall and is scheduled to be completed in 2008.[1] Anchor stores are Nordstrom, Macy's, and J.C. Penney.[4]

[edit] Anchors

[edit] Location

The mall is bounded on the north by NE Northgate Way (formerly NE 110th Street), on the west by 1st Avenue NE, on the south by NE 103rd Street, and on the east by 5th Avenue NE.[2] The Northgate informal district and Northgate Way were both named after the mall.[5] The original mall has itself become the anchor for development of surrounding apartment buildings, retail and light commercial blocks, and community spaces, all now part of a more comprehensive plan for such as the opportunities and impacts of transit facilities and the light rail station for the district.[6]

[edit] Express bus

The first express bus service in Washington State was launched with service between Northgate and Downtown (1970). The "Blue Streak" served as a model for dozens of additional park-and-ride routes implemented by Metro Transit over western King County and linking with Snohomish and Pierce counties.[7]

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b Wilma (2005)
  2. ^ a b "Maple Leaf". Seattle City Clerk's Neighborhood Map Atlas. Office of the Seattle City Clerk (n.d., map .jpg c. 2002-06-17). Retrieved on 2006-04-21. "NN-1030S", "NN-1040S".jpg dated 17 June 2002.
  3. ^ (1) "Northgate". Seattle City Clerk's Neighborhood Map Atlas. Office of the Seattle City Clerk (n.d., map .jpg 2002-06-17). Retrieved on 2006-04-21.
    (2) "About the Seattle City Clerk's On-line Information Services". Information Services. Office of the Seattle City Clerk (2006-04-30, revised). Retrieved on 2006-05-21.
    See heading, "Note about limitations of these data".
  4. ^ "Northgate Information". Home > Mall Information. Simon Properties (n.d., 2006 per soon stores in "Northgate Directory"). Retrieved on 2006-04-21.
  5. ^ Phelps, p.34; Chapter 16, "Street Names and House Numbering", pp. 225-235
  6. ^ (1) Langston, for one example of numerous.
    (2) "Northgate Revitalization: Overview". Seattle Department of Planning and Development (Updated 2005-01-03). Retrieved on 2006-05-21.
    (3) "Northgate Revitalization: Northgate Public Process History". Seattle Department of Planning and Development (Updated 2004-08-12). Retrieved on 2006-05-21.
    (4) "Northgate Revitalization: Building Northgate". Seattle Department of Planning and Development (Updated 2006-05-10). Retrieved on 2006-05-21.
    (5) See also GI Joes–Target complex c. early 2000s, and Group Health Northgate (1958) [HistoryLink Staff].
  7. ^ Crowley

[edit] Bibliography

  • "About the Seattle City Clerk's On-line Information Services". Information Services. Seattle City Clerk's Office (Revised 2006-04-30). Retrieved on 2006-05-21.
    See heading, "Note about limitations of these data".
  • Crowley, Walt (2001-03-19). "Blue Streak, first express park-and-ride bus service, begins between Northgate and downtown Seattle on September 8, 1970.". HistoryLink.org Essay 3115. Retrieved on 2006-04-21.
    Crowley referenced Walt Crowley, Routes, An Interpretive History of Public Transportation in Metropolitan Seattle (Seattle: Metro Transit, 1993).
  • "Group Health Cooperative dedicates Northgate Clinic on March 22, 1958.". HistoryLink.org Essay 7421 (2005-08-13). Retrieved on 2006-04-21.
  • Langston, Jennifer. ""Northgate project, creek to spring up"", Business, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 2006-06-08, pp. E1, E2. Retrieved on 2006-06-21.
  • "Maple Leaf". Seattle City Clerk's Neighborhood Map Atlas. Office of the Seattle City Clerk (n.d., map .jpg c. 2002-06-17). Retrieved on 2006-04-21.
    Maps "NN-1030S", "NN-1040S".jpg dated 17 June 2002.
  • "Northgate". Seattle City Clerk's Neighborhood Map Atlas. Office of the Seattle City Clerk (n.d., map .jpg 2002-06-17). Retrieved on 2006-04-21.
  • "Northgate Directory". Home > Mall Directory > Browse Alphabetically. Simon Properties (n.d., 1st quarter 2006 per soon store openings). Retrieved on 2006-04-21.
  • "Northgate Information". Simon Properties (n.d., 1st quarter 2006 per soon stores in "Northgate Directory"). Retrieved on 2006-04-21.
  • "Northgate Mall" (GIF). Home > Mall Directory > View Mall Floorplan. Simon Properties (2003-10-15). Retrieved on 2006-04-21.
  • "Northgate Revitalization: Building Northgate". Seattle Department of Planning and Development (Updated 2006-05-10). Retrieved on 2006-05-21.
  • "Northgate Revitalization: Overview". Seattle Department of Planning and Development (Updated 2005-01-03). Retrieved on 2006-04-21.
  • "Northgate Revitalization: Northgate Public Process History". Seattle Department of Planning and Development (Updated 2004-08-12). Retrieved on 2006-04-21.
  • Phelps, Myra L. (1978). Public works in Seattle. Seattle: Seattle Engineering Department. ISBN 0-9601928-1-6. Retrieved on 2006-04-21. 
  • Shenk, Carol; Pollack, Laurie; Dornfeld, Ernie; Frantilla, Anne; and Neman, Chris (2002-06-26, maps .jpg c. 2002-06-15). "About neighborhood maps". Seattle City Clerk's Office Neighborhood Map Atlas. Information Services, Seattle City Clerk's Office. Retrieved on 2006-04-21.
    Sources for this atlas and the neighborhood names used in it include a 1980 neighborhood map produced by the Department of Community Development (relocated to the Department of Neighborhoods and other agencies), Seattle Public Library indexes, a 1984-1986 Neighborhood Profiles feature series in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, numerous parks, land use and transportation planning studies, and records in the Seattle Municipal Archives.
    [Maps "NN-1120S", "NN-1130S", "NN-1140S".Jpg [sic] dated 13 June 2002; "NN-1030S", "NN-1040S".jpg dated 17 June 2002.]=http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=3186 | title ="Northgate Shopping Mall opens on April 21, 1950." | work =HistoryLink.org Essay 3186 | publisher = | accessdate =2006-04-21}}
    Wilma referenced Walt Crowley with Paul Dorpat (Photography Editor), National Trust Guide: Seattle (New York: John Wiley & Son, Inc., 1998), 209;
    HistoryLink.org Online Encyclopedia of Washington State History, "Northgate Beginnings" (by Jim Douglas), http://www.historylink.org/ (accessed August 2001);
    L. B. Fussell, "Section To Be Known As 'Northgate'", The Seattle Times, February 22, 1948;
    "Features Of Northgate Shopping Area Outlined", Ibid., February 1, 1950; "Polar Bear Cubs And $35,000 Car Vie At Northgate", Ibid., May 23, 1950;
    "Plenty of Parking Space At Northgate", Ibid., May 7, 1950;
    "Carter To Carve Totem Pole For Northgate", Ibid., February 26, 1952;
    "Northgate Stores Fete Completion Of 5-Acre Area", Ibid., February 15, 1952;
    "Car Show Planned On Northgate Mall", Ibid., April 30, 1953;
    "25 New Stores Opening At Northgate", Ibid., August 17, 1965;
    "Did You Know?" Ibid., March 18, 1965;
    "Northgate's Vast Parking Areas Can Accommodate Up To 50,000 Cars A Day", Ibid., March 21, 1968;
    "Eighteen Stores Pioneered Merchandising History At Northgate", Ibid., April 9, 1975;
    "Northgate An Instant Success", Ibid., April 9, 1975;
    "Northgate Center Will Celebrate 30th Anniversary Next Month", Ibid., March 13, 1980;
    "Simoninfo", Simon Properties Website (www.simon.com);
    Steve Schoenherr (University of San Diego), "Evolution of the Shopping Center", Steve Schoenherr Home Page accessed on November 4, 2004 (http://home.sandiego.edu/~ses/).
  • Wilma, David (2001-07-20). "Seattle Neighborhoods: Maple Leaf -- Thumbnail History". HistoryLink.org Essay 3454. Retrieved on 2006-04-21.
    From Mimi Sheridan and Carol Tobin, Licton Springs History,(Seattle: Licton Springs Community Council, 2001), 8;
    Don Sherwood, "Sacajawea P.F.", in "Interpretive Essays of the Histories of Seattle's Parks and Playfields", handwritten bound manuscript dated 1977, Seattle Room, Seattle Public Library.

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