Fashion District Philadelphia
Fashion District construction showing former Gallery tenant K-Mart location on Filbert and 10th
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| Location | 9th & Market Streets, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
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| Opening date | 2018 |
| Management | Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust |
| Owner | Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust and Macerich |
| No. of stores and services | 3 (130+ at peak) |
| No. of anchor tenants | 2 (4 at peak) |
| Total retail floor area | 1,080,002 sq ft (100,335.5 m2) |
| No. of floors | 4 |
| Parking | 2 parking garages |
| Public transit access |
Broad Street Line Ridge Spur
: 8th Street: 8th Street : 8th Street, 11th Street SEPTA Regional Rail: Jefferson Station  SEPTA bus: 17, 23, 33, 38, 44, 47, 47M, 48, 61, 62, 78 NJ Transit bus: 400, 401, 402, 404, 406, 408, 409, 410, 412, 414, 417 |
| Website | fashiondistrictphiladelphia.com |
Fashion District Philadelphia is a revitalization zone to be anchored by a renovated mall at the former site of The Gallery at Market East. The area was originally planned to be an outlet mall to be called "Fashion Outlets of Philadelphia", but the plans were later changed to be a new "retail district" consisting of clothing stores and a movie theater. Tenants such as H&M and various other chains have signed leases. The new mall is planned to open in 2018. Planners have envisioned that Philadelphia as the sixth largest city does not have a major retail center when even compared with Kansas City, the 37th largest city. The mall is envisioned to fill that "void" that even smaller cities have, to sell items to the Central City market that has only up to now only been available elsewhere. Many of the new retailers planning to open have never had a presence in Center City before.
Prior to the Fashion District Philadelphia, the space was once called The Gallery at Market East and was opened in 1977 and was later expanded as Galleries I and II in the early 1980s. The Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust (PREIT) acquired Gallery I in April 2003 from The Rouse Company and Gallery II in the third fiscal quarter of 2004 from the state's Public School Employees' Retirement System. The total complex measures approximately 1,100,000 square feet (100,000 m2) of retail space and at its peak had over 130 stores.
Formerly, the space was anchored by Strawbridge's department store at 8th Street. It is also the main entrance for SEPTA's Jefferson Station at 11th and 12th Streets. The mall also provides access to an underground concourse that connects to the Market-Frankford Line at its 8th and 11th street stations.
In September 2008, the developers of Foxwoods Casino Philadelphia changed their proposed casino location to The Gallery at Market East after receiving opposition from residents near the original proposed site in South Philadelphia. The new proposal was endorsed by both Mayor Michael Nutter and Governor Ed Rendell. The original proposal for the Foxwoods Casino at The Gallery at Market East was for a 3,000-slot-machine casino on two floors currently occupied by Burlington Coat Factory, which would force that store to relocate. However, on February 26, 2009, it was announced that the developers of the Foxwoods Casino were looking to locate their new casino on three floors of the former Strawbridge's store.
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