The Poughkeepsie Galleria (locally known as The Galleria) is an upscale shopping center on U.S. 9 in the Town of Poughkeepsie, New York, located just north of Wappingers Falls, and is the largest shopping center in Dutchess County. The Galleria has an area of 1,100,000-square-foot (100,000 m2) with two floors containing 140 shops and 14 restaurants as well as a 16-screen, stadium-seating Regal Cinemas theater.
The Galleria is owned and managed by The Pyramid Companies, a group who also owns and manages regional sister mall the Palisades Center in West Nyack, NY. The Galleria has adopted the Pyramid corporate "MB-18" teenage curfew policy on Friday and Saturday evenings, a policy that began in September 2005. Anchor stores include Best Buy, Dick's Sporting Goods, JCPenney, Macy's, Sears, and Target.
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History
In the early 1980s, a proposal for a two story indoor mall in Poughkeepsie, New York was submitted. Despite much conflict and many protests, the proposal was submitted, and the mall opened on August 1, 1987 as the Poughkeepsie Galleria Mall.
The mall's grand opening included the following anchor stores: G. Fox, Jordan Marsh, Lechmere, Steinbach, and JCPenney. The mall also included dozens of smaller retailers, restaurants, a movie theater and a food court. One wall of the food court was entirely enclosed by windows overlooking the parking lot with an escalator entrance leading to the cinemas. The mall was very family oriented, and had a red color scheme. It included big, colorful origami-like objects in center court by the stairs.
In 1991, the mall began construction on a two story addition adjacent to the food court. The addition eliminated the window enclosure at end of the food court, despite receiving criticism from many of the food retailers.
In 1992 Jordan Marsh went out of business and was replaced by Sears.
In 1993, G. Fox was taken over by Filene's, subsequently Macy's in 2006. Steinbach also went out of business, and its space became Dick's Sporting Goods in October 1995, relocated to its current location, the 2nd floor at the end of the food court. Lechmere became defunct, and the space was divided into three separate stores, later becoming Best Buy, Old Navy and H&M.
In the early 2000s, the mall's red paint scheme was changed to sea foam green, and the large origami-like sculptures in center court were removed. Montgomery Ward went out of business and Dick's Sporting Goods moved into its space up in the food court. Target moved into the Dick's former location.
During January 2005, the mall announced it would enact and begin enforcing the Pyramid Companies' "MB-18" teenage curfew policy beginning in September 2005, following a large fight involving young teenagers in front of then-Filene's. Due to the size of the incident, local police were called, and several arrests were made.
The early 2010's saw another major remodel of the Galleria interior. The sea foam green accents were painted white, and the incandescent light strips that adorned the trimming on the mall's upper level were replaced with LED light strips. The pink, black, and green floors tiles around the mall were all replaced with shiny and matte white floor tiles. New carpeted seating areas with burgundy and brown modern furniture were also added in front of the Best Buy and in the Galleria's center court. The old seating benches around trees growing on the first floor, as well as various other small seating areas around the mall were also updated to match the burgundy and brown color scheme.
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References
External links
- Poughkeepsie Galleria homepage
- Pyramid profile of Poughkeepsie Galleria
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