The Gallery at Market East
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| The Gallery at Market East | |
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| Location | 9th & Market Streets, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Owner | Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust |
| No. of stores and services | 170+ |
| No. of anchor tenants | 2 |
| Total retail floor area | 1,100,000 ft2 |
| Parking | 2 parking garages |
| No. of floors | 4 |
| Website | galleryatmarketeast.com |
The Gallery at Market East, or more commonly, The Gallery, is an urban mall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with over 170 stores.
The underground concourse of the mall runs parallel to the north side of Market Street, from the basement level of the now-closed Strawbridge's east of 9th Street, to the concourse for the 12th Street Market East Station of SEPTA's Regional Rail lines. The mall is also connected to the Center City Commuter Connection, a large underground concourse connecting various buildings and transit stations in Center City, Philadelphia. Above this at street level is an access concourse for the Marriott Philadelphia Downtown hotel, Hard Rock Cafe, and lobby for the Grand Hall of the Pennsylvania Convention Center at 12th & Market Streets. The former Strawbridge's was 522,000 sq. ft.
On the street level, The Gallery takes up the entire blocks between Market and Filbert Streets. Between 9th and 10th Streets, a Big Kmart occupies the first and second floors. At 11th Street, Burlington Coat Factory holds a portion of the concourse level, and half of the first through third floor levels, in a space originally built for JCPenney. The street level portions of The Gallery do not block or close off any streets; thus, access at the street level must be gained by exiting the facility and crossing the streets. Access across the upper levels can be found only from the second and third levels of Strawbridge's.
The Gallery is actually composed of Gallery I and Gallery II. Gallery I extends underground from the former Strawbridge's at 9th Street to the eastern side of 10th Street. Some years after The Gallery opened, the concourse was continued and the Gallery II section opened to the public. The whole complex is simply referred to as "The Gallery." Gallery I was anchored by Strawbridge's until 2006. The Gallery II is anchored by Burlington Coat Factory and currently has 51 tenants including Old Navy, Foot Locker, Bath & Body Works and Limited stores.
The Gallery was originally anchored on its western end at 10th Street by Gimbel's and its successor Stern's until the department store went out of business. A Clover store eventually took over the space, but it closed along with the rest of the Clover chain in 1996. Big Kmart opened in the late 1990's. The Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust (PREIT) acquired the Gallery I in April 2003 from the Rouse Co. They acquired Gallery II in the third fiscal quarter of 2004 from the state's Public School Employees' Retirement System. The full complex measures approximately 1.1 million square feet of retail space.
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[edit] Anchors & Majors
- Big Kmart (150,000 sq. ft.)
- Burlington Coat Factory (127,271 sq. ft.)
- CVS
- Modell's
- Old Navy (23,047 sq. ft.)
- Pay/Half (31,552 sq. ft.)
- Walgreens
[edit] Rail transit connections
The following rail stations are directly connected to The Gallery:
- 8th St Station — SEPTA Market-Frankford Line, PATCO Speedline
- 11th St Station — SEPTA Market-Frankford Line
- Market East Station — SEPTA Regional Rail
[edit] Trivia
- In the hit single "Parents Just Don’t Understand" from DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince, Will Smith describes an unhappy shopping trip to the Gallery with his mother.
[edit] External links
- The Gallery at Market East — corporate website
- The Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment trust — corporate owners
- Philebrity — Philebrity
