Fashion Centre at Pentagon City

Fashion Centre at Pentagon City, originally the Pentagon City Mall, is an enclosed shopping mall in the Pentagon City neighborhood of Arlington, Virginia, near Interstate 395 and Hayes Street. Its Metro level is directly connected to the Pentagon City station on the Blue and Yellow Lines of the Washington Metro. The mall features Macy's and Nordstrom, and also houses the Ritz-Carlton Pentagon City hotel.

Completed in October 1989, the Fashion Centre is the largest enclosed shopping mall in Arlington, housing 164 retailers and restaurants. The Washington Tower office building, formerly leased by MCI, is part of the mall property; its lower levels are part of the mall.

History
The mall was developed by Melvin Simon & Associates with real-estate investment firm Rose Associates as part of the 1976 Pentagon City Phased-Development Site Plan. It opened in fall 1989 with 860,000 sq. ft. of space on 25 acres, with Macy's and Nordstrom as anchor stores (original plans were for Bambergers) and approximately 150 other stores, and a 4,524-capacity parking garage; the office tower part of the complex opened a little later, and the 345-room hotel the following year. The interior featured a white color scheme and skylit atria extending in two wings from the central courtyard. The mall theater, Loews Pentagon City 6, closed on January 1, 2003, and was replaced by a clothing store.

Expansion of the mall, including outward-facing stores on Hayes Street, was approved by the county board in 2013, at which time it had more than 170 stores. It was completed in 2016. , the mall had 1.05 e6sqft of space.

On March 23, 2023, it was announced that IKEA will be opening a 5,000 sqft "Plan and Order" specialty format, the first in the Washington, D.C. region. It will feature interior design planning among IKEA specialists with any ordered furniture then delivered to a customer's residence.

Tenants
As of 2018:
 * Macy's, 253314 sqft
 * Nordstrom, 219514 sqft
 * Zara, 27775 sqft
 * Forever 21, 23317 sqft
 * Matchbox restaurant, 11524 sqft
 * Apple Store, 10287 sqft
 * The Gap/Gap Kids, 8969 sqft
 * Banana Republic, 6398 sqft
 * The North Face, 6130 sqft
 * J Crew, 5893 sqft
 * Microsoft Store, 5667 sqft

Awards
The center was a finalist for the 2018 International Council of Shopping Centers 2018 US Design & Development and Retailer Awards.

Ownership
In late 1990, Melvin Simon & Associates sold 50% of its interest in the mall to Lehndorff Group, a real estate management firm; during 1991 it sold another 25% to other institutional investors, retaining a quarter interest and management of the center. Simon Property Group, the successor to the Simon shopping mall interests, subsequently raised its stake; it jointly owned the mall with Institutional Mall Investors, a joint venture of Miller Capital Advisory and CalPERS;, it had a 42.5% interest. The Ritz-Carlton hotel is separately owned, by Xenia Hotels & Resorts.