Mazza Gallerie

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Mazza Gallerie is a retail, dining and entertainment complex in Friendship Heights neighborhood in northwest Washington, D.C.. Opened in 1978, the center is owned by TIAA-CREF and managed by CBRE Group. In 2017, Ashkenazy Acquisition Corporation acquired the complex.

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Layout

The four lowest levels are the underground parking deck, labeled as P1-P4 Level. The next three levels are occupied by retail stores. The mall is anchored by Neiman Marcus, who is three levels (1-3), and two levels of Saks Fifth Avenue Men's Store (1-2) - other departments are stationed on Saks Fifth Avenue with full-service blocks within Chevy Chase, Maryland. The third level mall has a seven-screen AMC cinema. The complex is connected directly to one of the Western Avenue exits at Friendship Heights Metro Station.

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History

Mazza Gallerie is an early project of Herbert S. Miller's Western Development Corporation, which later developed Potomac Mills, Georgetown Park, and Washington Harbor. Miller brings together property owners Olga Mazza and Stanley Marcus from Neiman Marcus with a vision for the construction of retail and mixed housing, but the housing component has never been approved.

The center did not fit its potential, saw a high vacancy rate. In June 1997, a group led by Daniel McCaffery, who had the development of the Friendship Center on Wisconsin Avenue, earned a $ 28 million center and embarked on a massive renovation. The redesigned center opens up a marble-block exterior with new windows, better lighting, and additional entrances. Among the new venues are the new General Cinemas theater and the 120-seat restaurant, The R Room, owned by General Cinemas but operated by the restaurant division of Neiman Marcus. It closed in December 2000 and a space that has since been vacant apart from a tentan from 2007 to 2009.