Mazza Gallerie was an upscale shopping mall which was demolished in 2023[1] and is currently being rebuilt as a mixed-use development[2] It is located along Wisconsin Avenue in the Friendship Heights neighborhood of northwest Washington, D.C. at the Maryland border.
Opened in 1977, it had 300,000 square feet (28,000 m2) of retail space on three levels, a parking garage, and a direct connection to the Friendship Heights station of the Washington Metro.
[7][5] The developers envisioned the 60-store mall as the anchor for a new upscale shopping district: Washington's version of Fifth Avenue or Rodeo Drive.
[8] A retail corridor had already been established with the opening of a freestanding Woodward & Lothrop department store in 1950, followed by Lord & Taylor (1959) and Saks Fifth Avenue (1964) nearby, and a stop on the Metro Red Line had been approved in 1973.
[15] In June 2004, Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America (TIAA) acquired the mall from General Electric for $77 million.
In August 2020, the closure of the Neiman Marcus store was announced[19] and Annaly Capital Management acquired the property via foreclosure.