Fair Oaks Mall
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Upper level | |
| Location | Fairfax, Virginia, U.S. |
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| Address | 11750 Fair Oaks Mall, Fairfax, VA 22033 |
| Opening date | July 31, 1980 |
| Developer | A. Alfred Taubman |
| Management | Taubman Centers |
| Owner | Taubman Centers |
| No. of stores and services | 170+[1] |
| No. of anchor tenants | 5[1] |
| Total retail floor area | 1,565,000 sq ft (145,400 m2)[1] |
| No. of floors | 2 |
Fair Oaks Mall is an enclosed shopping mall in Fairfax, Virginia. It is located at the intersection of Interstate 66 and U.S. Route 50. The mall has a gross leasable area (GLA) of 1,565,000 sq ft (145,400 m2). Its anchor stores are J. C. Penney, Lord & Taylor, two Macy's, and Sears.
In August 2007 it was announced by Taubman Centers that preliminary plans were in the works to expand the mall by 34%.
History
Fair Oaks Mall officially opened on July 31, 1980.[2] The 1,400,000-square-foot (130,000 m2) mall, developed by the Taubman Company, opened in the midst of a recession, with only four of six anchor stores in operation (Hecht's, JCPenney, Sears, and Woodward & Lothrop) and 15 other storefronts occupied, leaving three fourths of the storefronts empty. The two remaining anchors opened shortly after: Garfinckel's on August 21, 1980, and Lord & Taylor in spring 1981. Developers expected 60 to be occupied by the Christmas season and 100 by the following year. Upon opening, it was the largest mall in the Washington, D.C., area. It included the first suburban Washington location of the British homegoods store Conran's.[3]
In 1982, the Fair Oaks Mall was one of the first sites used by Sears as part of its effort to offer financial services to customers, including stocks, bonds, insurance and real estate, from its Dean Witter, Allstate and Coldwell Banker subsidiaries.[4]
In 1987, the mall's owners attempted to evict Garfinckel's and a related company, Raleigh Stores Holding, Inc., claiming that the store owners had not received the landlord's permission to assign the lease after Allied Stores divested some lines of business.[5] The Garfinckel's chain went out of business in 1990, and Woodward & Lothrop used the space as an auxilary store for home furnishings.[6] After Woodward & Lothrop went out of business, the space became a Mastercraft furniture store,[7] and then Forever 21 in 2008.[8]
In 1988, seeking to reach out to a broader range of patrons, the Fairfax library system opened a 10,000-volume branch at the Fair Oaks Mall.[9] The mall also contains a Virginia DMV customer service center.
Fairfax Corner, a planned lifestyle center, opened in 2004 just south of Fair Oaks.
Anchors
- J.C. Penney (257,000 square feet)
- Lord & Taylor (127,000 square feet)
- Macy's - 2 locations (formerly Hecht's; 449,000 square feet)
- Sears (121,000 square feet)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Leasing sheet" (PDF). Taubman Centers. Retrieved 30 October 2014.
- ↑ "Mall: The Fountains! The Parasols! The Parking," by Lynn Darling, The Washington Post, Aug 1, 1980, p. C1.
- ↑ "New Fair Oaks Mall Runs Afoul of Recession," by Jerry Knight, The Washington Post, Jul 27, 1980, p. F1.
- ↑ "Sears's Experiment In Financial Sales", The New York Times, October 7, 1982. p. D1.
- ↑ "Mall owners sues to evict unit of Garfinckel's". (Fair Oaks Mall, Va.) Daily News Record, December, 1987 by Betsy Stanton
- ↑ "Woodies To Expand At Fair Oaks". The Washington Post. 30 May 1990. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
- ↑ Harris, Pat Lopes (28 September 1998). "Mastercraft Interiors goes malling in Va., Md.". Washington Business Journal. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
- ↑ Mui, Yian Q. "Increase in Area Retail Vacancies Is Modest". The Washington Post. 4 August 2008. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
- ↑ "Branching Out; Area Libraries Aren't Just for Books Anymore", The Washington Post, October 13, 1988. pg. v.01