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27-465: Tysons Galleria was the third major project of the Gudelsky- Lerner partnership. The property was purchased from The Rouse Company which lost a bitter zoning dispute over the site in 1963. In 1981, Lerner bought out the partnership for $ 21 million, before embarking on a $ 550 million expansion. It was constructed across Virginia State Route 123 from the existing Tysons Corner Center , which

54-556: A component of MWCOG, is the federally designated Metropolitan Planning Organization for the metropolitan Washington area. The Baltimore Metropolitan Council is the equivalent organization for the Baltimore portion of the combined Baltimore–Washington metropolitan area. The BMC, which was created in 1992 as the successor to the Regional Planning Council and Baltimore Regional Council of Governments, consists of

81-405: A movie theater. Tysons Galleria features valet parking and concierge services, including having large purchases delivered and organized into customers' closets. The mall has given consistently big-spending customers reserved parking spaces. The Galleria also has foreign currency exchanges, day spas , security escorts, and taxi services. An adjacent Ritz-Carlton hotel is accessible from inside

108-495: A population of 1,150,309. The counties and independent cities and their groupings that comprise the area are listed below with their 2012 population estimates. Central counties/cities (designated as such by OMB) for each MSA are shown in italics. Founded in 1957, the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (MWCOG) is a regional organization of 23 Washington-area local governments, members of

135-600: Is a statistical area , including the overlapping metropolitan areas of Washington, D.C. and Baltimore . The region includes Central Maryland , Northern Virginia , three counties in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia , and one county in south-central Pennsylvania . It is the most educated, highest-income, and third-most populous combined statistical area in the United States behind New York City–Newark, NJ and Los Angeles–Long Beach . The area

162-736: Is chair of The Annette M. and Theodore N. Lerner Family Foundation and chair of the Washington Nationals Philanthropies and the Washington Nationals Youth Baseball Academy. The family are the sole owners and heirs of Lerner Enterprises. Lerner died from pneumonia at his home in Chevy Chase, Maryland , on February 12, 2023, at age 97. Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area Outlying areas: The Washington–Baltimore combined metropolitan statistical area

189-719: Is designated by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) as the Washington–Baltimore–Arlington, DC–MD–VA–WV–PA Combined Statistical Area . It is composed primarily of two major metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs), the Washington–Arlington–Alexandria, DC–VA–MD–WV MSA and the Baltimore–Columbia–Towson, Maryland Metropolitan Statistical Area. Five smaller urban areas not contiguous to the main urban area but having strong commuting ties with

216-404: Is mostly due to their proximity to the area, the size of their commuter population, and by the influence of local broadcasting stations. The population of the entire Washington–Baltimore Combined Statistical Area as of the 2020 census was 9,973,383. The area's most-populous city is Washington, D.C. with a population of 689,545, and the area's most populous county is Fairfax County, Virginia , with

243-459: The Maryland and Virginia state legislatures, the U.S. Senate , and the U.S. House of Representatives . MWCOG provides a forum for discussion and the development of regional responses to issues regarding the environment, transportation, public safety, homeland security, affordable housing, community planning, and economic development. The National Capital Region Transportation Planning Board,

270-939: The Weizmann Institute of Science ; the Scleroderma Foundation of Greater Washington; YouthAids; Junior Achievement of the Greater Washington Area; the Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School ; and the Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington, among many others. Ted and his wife Annette are founding members of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. The American Academy of Achievement awarded Ted Lerner

297-582: The Baltimore region's elected executives, representing Baltimore City and Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Carroll, Harford and Howard counties. The Baltimore Regional Transportation Board is the federally recognized Metropolitan Planning Organization for transportation planning in the Baltimore region. Maryland's Washington suburbs are a major center for biotechnology . Prominent local biotechnology companies include MedImmune , United Therapeutics , The Institute for Genomic Research , Human Genome Sciences , and

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324-770: The Golden Plate Award of Excellence in 1990. The campus of the Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School in Rockville is named in his and his wife's honor after a multimillion-dollar donation to the school. The lunch room in the Melvin J. Berman Hebrew Academy was donated by the Lerner Family. The family has also donated the Lerner Family Health and Wellness Center and Theodore Lerner Hall at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. along with

351-721: The Lerner Center at Hebrew University in Israel. The family donated the theater at Imagination Stage in Bethesda, Maryland . Notable achievements include: On June 17, 1951, he married Annette M. Lerner. They had three children: Mark D. Lerner (married to Judy Lenkin Lerner), Debra Lerner Cohen (married to Edward L. Cohen) and Marla Lerner Tanenbaum (married to Robert K. Tanenbaum). Ted Lerner had nine grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren. His daughter, Marla Lerner Tanenbaum,

378-723: The Lerner Enterprises ventures is a partnership in Chelsea Piers , a 30-acre (12 ha) sports and entertainment complex on the Hudson River in New York City; the Tysons II commercial development; shopping centers including White Flint and Dulles Town Center ; and thousands of homes and apartments, along with numerous office buildings. Lerner also played a role in developing other shopping centers in

405-533: The Washington area, including Tysons Corner Center and Wheaton Plaza . The headquarters of Lerner Enterprises in Rockville was the first Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) platinum certified multi-tenant commercial building in the D.C. area and has been the recipient of multiple design and environmental awards. The Washington Nationals franchise (then known as the Montreal Expos )

432-614: The latter part of World War II . Using the G.I. Bill , he attended George Washington University , where he received first an Associate of Arts and then an L.L.B. from the George Washington University Law School in 1949. While in law school, he sold homes on the weekends, which piqued his interest in real estate. In 1952, Lerner borrowed $ 250 from his wife and founded the real estate company Lerner Enterprises in Rockville, Maryland . Among

459-741: The main area are included in the metropolitan area: Hagerstown–Martinsburg, Maryland–West Virginia MSA, the Chambersburg–Waynesboro, Pennsylvania MSA, the Winchester, VA–WV MSA , the California–Lexington Park, Maryland MSA, and the Easton, Maryland micropolitan statistical area (μSA). Some counties, such as Caroline and King George County, Virginia , are not officially designated by OMB as members of this metropolitan area but still consider themselves members anyway. This

486-780: The mall. The hotel attracts wealthy visitors from Europe , the Middle East , and the Far East , who in turn help fuel sales of the mall's high-end goods. FAO Schwarz operated a three-level store that closed in 2001. The mall also had one of the original locations of Tiffany & Co.'s Iridesse . Several designers, including Bally , Balenciaga, Burberry , Bottega Veneta , Cartier , Celine , Chanel , Crate & Barrel, David Yurman , De Beers , Elie Tahari , Ermenegildo Zegna , Gucci , Louis Vuitton , Prada , Saint Laurent , Salvatore Ferragamo , Tory Burch , Vilebrequin , Van Cleef & Arpels, Tumi and Versace , have some of

513-486: The older Tysons Corner Center retroactively as "Tysons I". In the early 1990s, the shopping center had annual sales of $ 262 per square foot, below the market average for malls in the Washington metropolitan area during this time period. The Galleria was renovated to appear more like a "European streetscape" and expanded in 1997 by Homart Development Company , who had its name changed to Tysons Galleria . Its interior

540-605: The only statewide and Baltimore-Washington area boutiques in Tysons Galleria or the largest of the areas locations. The mall is anchored by Neiman Marcus and Saks Fifth Avenue . The mall also contains full-service restaurants are Wildfire , The Cheesecake Factory , Maggiano's Little Italy and P.F. Chang's China Bistro . 38°55′26″N 77°13′30″W  /  38.92391°N 77.22505°W  / 38.92391; -77.22505 Ted Lerner Theodore Nathan Lerner (October 15, 1925 – February 12, 2023)

567-1276: The postseason five times. Lerner won a World Series ring when the Nationals defeated the Houston Astros in the 2019 World Series . The Lerner family is also a partner in Monumental Sports & Entertainment , which owns the Washington Capitals of the National Hockey League , the Washington Mystics of the Women's National Basketball Association , the Washington Wizards of the National Basketball Association , and Capital One Arena . The Annette M. and Theodore N. Lerner Family Foundation provides support to many organizations, including: Food & Friends; The Hebrew University of Jerusalem ; Shady Grove Adventist Hospital; Hadley's Park;

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594-513: Was an American real estate developer and managing principal owner of the Washington Nationals baseball team. He was the founder of the real estate company Lerner Enterprises , the largest private landowner in the Washington metropolitan area , which owns commercial, retail, residential, and hotel properties, as well as Chelsea Piers in New York City. In 2015, Forbes magazine named him the richest person in Maryland . Lerner

621-462: Was announced Macy's , which has maintained a separate location at Tysons Corner Center since 2006 (when it was converted from Hecht's ), would close, and be reconstructed into mall space, featuring tenants such as Restoration Hardware (relocated from Tysons Corner Center), Crate & Barrel (relocated from a standalone store in Tysons), Arhaus (relocated from Tysons Corner Center), Bowlero , and

648-453: Was formerly owned and operated by Major League Baseball from February 15, 2002, until the official transfer of ownership to Lerner on July 24, 2006. The Lerner family is the majority owner of the franchise, controlling over 90% of the shares. Lerner retired as managing principal owner in 2018, ceding the role to his son, Mark Lerner . Under Lerner's ownership, the Nationals won four National League East division championships and appeared in

675-619: Was lightly remodeled to appear less like a "space walk". The mall eventually attracted the high-end tenants that it had hoped for. National Geographic stated in its December 2002 issue that "Tysons Galleria is the Rodeo Drive of the East Coast ." The Washington Post describes it as a "bright and elegant Fifth Avenue -like mall". Tysons Galleria was rated one of the top 15 sales-producing shopping centers in terms of dollars per square foot by WWD in 2003. On January 10, 2019, it

702-478: Was raised in an Orthodox Jewish family in Northwest Washington D.C., the eldest of three children born to Mayer, a 1921 emigrant from British Mandatory Palestine (modern day Israel ), and Ethel, who immigrated from Lithuania . He attended Raymond Elementary School, MacFarland Junior High, and graduated from Roosevelt High School in 1944. Lerner served with the U.S. Army as a typist during

729-543: Was then undergoing a $ 160 million expansion. Anchor store Macy's opened first, on September 1, 1988. The rest of the mall opened a month later, on October 6, 1988, as the Galleria at Tysons II , adding high-end anchor department stores Neiman Marcus and Saks Fifth Avenue . The mall is a part of the $ 500 million ($ 1 billion in 2014 dollars) office development The Corporate Office Centre at Tysons II , leading regional residents to refer to Tysons Galleria as "Tysons II", and

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