Glendale Galleria did the thing enclosed malls were not supposed to be able to do: a competitor opened directly across the street, and the older mall stayed open anyway.
The rival was The Americana at Brand, an open-air center with apartments and a lawn that arrived in 2008 on the other side of Central Avenue.
It eventually took Nordstrom, the anchor that had defined the Galleria’s 1983 wing for nearly three decades. The Galleria’s owner had fought the project in court before it was built and then watched a marquee tenant walk across the street to it…