Galleria Welcoming New Tenants, Expansions
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Galleria Welcoming New Tenants, Expansions

Mille, Vivid Home, and Sweet Paris Crêperie among Edina shopping center additions.

The mall news continues.

New stores will open at the Galleria through the start of next year, filling vacancies left by tenants who relocated across 69th Street to Southdale for the new luxury wing it opened in June. (They included David Yurman and Louis Vuitton.)

The high-end Edina shopping center announced Wednesday it’s welcoming Mille, Vivid Home, Sweet Paris Crêperie, Pumpz Bijoux, and the return of a holiday pop-up by Sweet Ivy. One tenant, Sweet Ivy, has expanded. Another, home retailer Arhaus, is set to expand before year’s end, leaving its former space open for possible subdivision.

Two other brands, Boll & Branch and Faribault Mill, have already recently moved into the Galleria

“With the departure of several long-standing tenants to Southdale, we’ve embraced the opportunity to realign with our core identity,” said Galleria managing director Jennifer Smith in a statement. She handles leasing for the shopping center.

The Galleria, Smith said, “is entering a new chapter with the introduction of several locally owned and highly curated brands.”

Mille, a women’s clothing store, launched at least 15 years ago under Minneapolis transplant Michelle LeBlanc. It opens in October with a travel-inspired collection. (LeBlanc closed her southwest Minneapolis brick-and-mortar during the pandemic, as reported by Mpls.St.Paul Magazine.)

Also opening next month is Pumpz Bijoux, in the former David Yurman space. A pop-up from the Galleria’s Pumpz & Company, it will sell vintage jewelry sourced from Paris, including Chanel and Hermès. Sweet Ivy has just doubled in size to include kids clothing store Littles.

November will see the addition of Sweet Paris Crêperie and the expansion of the Arhaus furniture store, both in the “reimagined” space across from the Good Earth restaurant. And February brings in Vivid Home, an upscale home store now based near downtown Minneapolis and founded by another local, Danielle Loven, in 2007.

In the former Kate Spade space, New Jersey–based home decor and textiles brand Boll & Branch opened late summer. Faribault Mill, the 160-year-old Minnesota blanket manufacturer—which has seen “record sales growth” in recent years—opened in the Galleria, in its second Edina location, on Thursday.

So, as Southdale goes after national-brand luxury—part of its $400 million renovation, with a goal of 50 store openings—the Galleria appears to be digging its heels into local soil.

Elsewhere, Ridgedale Center and Mall of America have been adding stores, while Rosedale Center is set to add six tenants through the fourth quarter.