<Tr> <Th> Website </Th> <Td> www.simon.com </Td> </Tr> <P> The Galleria, stylized theGalleria or the Houston Galleria, is an upscale mixed - use urban development shopping mall centrally located in the Uptown District of Houston, Texas, United States . The development consists of a retail complex, as well as the Galleria Office Towers complex, two Westin hotels, and a private health club . The office towers and hotels are separately owned and managed from the shopping center . </P> <P> With 3 million total square feet (280,000 m2) of space that includes 2.4 million (223,000 m2) of gross leasable area with over 375 stores, the Galleria is the largest mall in Texas and seventh - largest in the United States . It is currently anchored by Neiman Marcus, Nordstrom, Saks Fifth Avenue, and Macy's . </P> <P> The idea of an indoor shopping center with a hotel was envisioned in the 1940s by oilman Glenn H. McCarthy where a second phase was to include the Shamrock Hotel; this concept was scrapped right after the Hilton Hotel franchise took over the Shamrock in 1955 . Glenn H. McCarthy's abandoned concept would influence Gerald Hines in the late 1960s . </P>

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