Thursday, March 28, 2013
What retail stores would you like to see at the newly improved Springfield Town Center?
According to a statement from Michael Schear, president of Vornado Realty Trust, construction leasings for the new Springfield Town Center are on schedule for a summer 2014 opening, and the company plans to announce more lead tenants later this year. Driving pass the mall, shoppers can see straight through the structure due to current construction. Springfield-area residents already know to expect a movie theater and fitness center when the town center is complete. JCPenney, Macy's and Target — which are currently still open through construction — will still be huge staples at the center as well. However, usually leasing strategies and decisions are not made public until contracts have been formally confirmed and signed, said Linda Waller…
Friday, March 8, 2013
Owner Michael Schear said the newly transformed Springfield Mall will service an 'affluent and underserved trade area in the south side of the D.C. Metro area.'
The Springfield Mall transformation is currently still on schedule and construction leases will be complete by summer 2014, said Michael Schear, president of Vornado Realty Trust, according to a recent transcript on Seeking Alpha. "I mentioned earlier in my opening remarks the Springfield Mall in Virginia is in the midst of a total transformation that will make it the dominant fashion offering for an affluent and underserved trade area in the south side of the D.C. Metro area," Schear said. The new Springfield Town Center will include existing anchors, J.C. Penney, Macy's and Target, as well as a new cinema, health club and duly anchoring offices, along with 45,000 square feet of restaurants, a new food court and 450,000 square feet of …
Monday, February 4, 2013
Site plan depicts new lay out of the mall redevelopment.
The redevelopment of the Springfield Mall is currently progressing on schedule according to Mara Ooguin, a spokesperson for what will soon be the Springfield Town Center. The demolition of the Springfield Mall began Nov. 26. All of the mall's stores closed back in July except for Macy's, JCPenney and Target. The mall's redevelopment and transformation into what will be an upscale town center is part of a three-year effort between the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, Vorando Realty Trust, who owns the mall, and a handful of community organizations in the Springfield area. A site plan for the redevelopment was recently added to the Springfield Town Center website, but Ooguin said at the moment, they don't have a tenant line up for the …
Monday, November 26, 2012
The mall, which has been under construction since mid-summer 2012, will be redeveloped into a town center by the end of 2014.
The official demolition of Springfield Mall began Monday morning, as construction crews make way for the new Springfield Town Center slated to be complete in the fall of 2014. “We’re here today to celebrate a major milestone for this mall. It may not seem like a big deal to some people, but it is a big deal to people who live in Springfield and businesses in and around Springfield to see this process actually start. It’s taken a long time to get to this point,” Fairfax County Lee District Supervisor Jeff McKay said. He was joined at the demolotion by officials from Vornado Realty Trust and Springfield civic groups. The redevelopment of the mall and transformation into what will become an upscale town center is part of a three-year effort …
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Community rejects mixed-use development ideas for Penn Daw Plaza project as presented.
Opinions clashed Monday as residents packed into the cafeteria at Mount Eagle Elementary School for a public meeting about the proposed development of the Penn Daw Community Business Center (CBC). Members of the Penn Daw Task Force, which is only an advisory body and consists of local residents and a Southeast Fairfax Development Corporation representative, answered questions regarding a drafted amendment to Fairfax County’s Comprehensive Plan for the rezoning and redevelopment of the area west of South Kings and Richmond Highways, and south of Poag and School Streets. It is the task force's job to review the amendment and make sure that the plans proposed are acceptable to the community. Throughout the meeting, residents stressed that …
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Renovations will reduce crime and make shoppers feel safer, McKay says.
Lee District Supervisor Jeff McKay thinks Springfield Mall is still a safe place to shop, but he understands why some area residents might be too spooked to visit the half-empty facility. “Right now, when people are in Springfield Mall, they’re scared because it’s so desolate,” McKay told Patch. More than half the mall’s storefronts are currently vacant while officials at Vornado Realty Trust, the mall’s New York-based owner, figure out plans for redevelopment. Fairfax County officials had hoped these redevelopments would begin in the fall, but Vornado has yet to make a move, and residents are growing concerned. Minor Incidents, Mostly The majority of the crimes at Springfield Mall are minor incidents, such as larcenies and shoplifting. …
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Wednesday, July 13, 2011
About one-third of the mall's storefronts are currently vacant.
Alexandria's Landmark Mall has a vacancy rate more than three times the national average. According to Reuters, at large U.S. malls, the national vacancy rate is about 9 percent, the highest since the first quarter 2000, when Reis, a a commercial real estate research and analysis company based in New York, began tracking regional malls. But more than one-third of the Landmark Mall’s retail space—more than 50 individual storefronts—sit unused. In addition, two large sections of the mall adjacent to Sears and a storefront on level 2 large enough to be a small department store are empty. Unlike Springfield Mall, just a few miles southwest of Landmark, renovations of Landmark Mall still seem to be a long way off. Local management at Landmark…
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Half the mall's storefronts are empty in preparation for major renovations.
Those long-awaited, heavily-rumored renovations to Springfield Mall may start as early as this fall, according to Fairfax County officials. One clue that renovations are coming soon is that right now roughly half the storefronts in the once-prosperous Springfield Town Center are empty. “A lot of the vacancies that exist in the mall—believe it or not—are deliberate,” Fairfax County Supervisor Jeff McKay told Patch. The vacancies will allow stores to move around and remain operational while large sections of the building are renovated. Other vacancies are deliberate for a different reason: “[The owners have] not been renewing leases for stores that they don’t think fit in with the long-term redevelopment plans for the mall.” --------- What…
Susan
7:44 am on Saturday, May 11, 2013
I would like to see some fashion stores such as Ann Taylor, Loft, Talbott's, Black House/White Market. I would also like a Pottery Barn, and a Harris Teeter grocery store. And more restaurants! more ›