Galleria Dallas Fall 2026: Rink Updates and Holiday Events

Tiffany & Co. sold jewelry at Galleria Dallas from 1982 until the end of May 2026. It was the company's first store in Dallas-Fort Worth. Nordstrom left that same month. Those two exits mark a period of change. Meanwhile, work crews spent the summer on the building's lowest floor, taking out the teal glass around the ice rink and putting in new flooring, lighting, and seating.

Those two stories point the same way. The Galleria at I-635 and the Dallas North Tollway is putting its money into the parts of the building you visit on a date, for an event, with a ticket or a pair of rented skates. For Far North Dallas neighbors, that means the useful guide to the Galleria this fall is its calendar more than its store directory.

Which Names Left and What Took Their Space

Galleria Dallas opened in the early 1980s with hundreds of stores stacked above a year-round skating rink, connected to the Westin Hotel. The Advocate reports that the center took a hit in the pandemic years and is now in a phase of reinvention under Trademark Property Company. Recent turnover at the biggest spaces shows what that reinvention involves.

New retail is still arriving. In a March update, Trademark listed ALO, Helzberg 1915, Rolife, Urban Planet, and Watson as open. Kids Foot Locker was planned for March and Patissery for April, and the company said it was negotiating seven more leases. Aritzia is the one many shoppers are waiting for. CW33 reported in March that it was planned for this fall near Sephora. The mall's own directory still says "opening soon" with no date.

WFAA reported that when Tiffany announced its closing, Galleria's operators said "more announcements" were "coming soon." Tiffany still has stores at NorthPark Center, Legacy West in Plano, and The Shops at Clearfork in Fort Worth. For a Tiffany errand, the drive now goes to one of those locations.

The Rink Level Gets the Investment

If the anchors show what is leaving, the construction shows what the owners are betting on. The rink level sits below Level One. According to the Advocate's May report, the plan includes new flooring, lighting, and seating around the rink, an off-white finish replacing the teal glass enclosure, and digital directory boards and kiosks throughout the building. New party rooms have already opened across from the skating center. General manager Angie Freed told the Advocate, "We believe they will make Galleria Dallas even more of a destination for returning shoppers and new visitors."

In May, the Advocate reported that the work was expected to begin that month, with completion estimated by the end of the year. WFAA later reported more pieces of the project, including new art on the center court escalators, new digital boards on the second level, and interactive kiosks to help shoppers find stores. None of the coverage gives a revised finish date, so some construction may still be visible when the holiday crowds show up.

The rink's posted schedule makes no mention of the construction. Public skating is first come, first served, with no reservations. Admission is $13 and skate rental is $5. Weekday afternoon sessions end at 5:30 p.m. on Monday, 5:45 p.m. on Wednesday, and 5:00 p.m. on Thursday. Tuesday runs straight through until 9:00 p.m., and Friday until 10:00 p.m. The rink posts its schedule as subject to change without notice.

A second project is planned for the north side. On July 22, Axios Dallas reported that the North Plaza between Grand Lux Café and the Westin will get updated landscaping, seating, and paving, plus an upgraded valet stand, with construction slated to finish in the first quarter of 2027. WFAA added that the Grand Lux façade will be refreshed. That timeline covers the plaza only. It does not signal a delay to the rink work.

The Calendar From Now Through December

Put the event listings side by side and they show the same shift as the construction. From tonight through Christmas Eve, the Galleria has something scheduled nearly every week.

Now through October

• BooMont Hotel opened September 4 on the third floor by the food court. It ran weekends in September and is scheduled daily throughout October. This year's walk-through takes about an hour and adds a Ghoul Pool, a Haunted Mirror Maze, and a Master Key Scavenger Hunt.
• Netflix House, Fridays through October 23 at 6 p.m. "Pumpkins & Potions."
• Netflix House, October 30 at 8 p.m. The 21+ "Hallow-Eve: All-Access Bash."

November

• November 12. Netflix House opens its KPop Demon Hunters experience, an all-ages adventure of about an hour with music-driven challenges, sets from the movie, and a post-show moment with the character Derpy. CultureMap Dallas covered the announcement on September 22.
• November 27 and 28 at noon. The Grand Tree Lighting shows, with ice-skating performances, Olympic skaters, fireworks, and Missile Toes.
• November 27 through December 24. Illumination Celebration, a music-and-light show on what the mall calls the nation's tallest indoor Christmas tree, daily at noon, 2, 4, and 6 p.m.
• November 30 through December 18. More than 60 local groups are scheduled to perform near Sephora, Monday through Friday at noon, 2, 4, and 6 p.m.

December

• December 5 at noon. The last Grand Tree Lighting show of the season.

The holiday 2026 page also lists Santaland and Snowday among its family programs.

Netflix House doesn't require a ticket for everything. It also has a Netflix-themed arcade called RePLAY and a merchandise shop, and it says some areas are free to enter, while the immersive experiences are ticketed separately. Its restaurant, Netflix Bites, is open to everyone and free to enter, with or without a ticket. That makes the old Belk space a place you can stop into on the way to the parking garage, the same way you might have walked through a department store.

One Exit East, a Filing and No Approval

The Galleria's changes are happening next to a bigger question mark. In early September, the Dallas Mavericks filed a zoning request for roughly 112 acres at the former Valley View Center, near LBJ Freeway, Alpha Road, and Montfort Drive, seeking a new subdistrict that would allow a sports and entertainment campus. As of that report, no City Plan Commission hearing had been scheduled, and property owners within 500 feet of the site will be notified. The team has described restaurants, retail, a hotel, green space, and team facilities. The site has no direct DART rail service, so traffic is likely to be the main question at hearings. Premier at Dallas Midtown is already under construction on the same property, and how the two projects would fit together hasn't been settled.

For now, it is only an application. The Galleria's plans already have dates: the rink level is due by year's end, the North Plaza in early 2027, and the first tree lighting show at noon on November 27.

Whether the Galleria is a skating night with the kids or just the landmark by your Tollway exit, these projects will shape how the area around it feels over the next few years. If you're weighing what that means for your own home or your next move, Jenelle Berry-Cook is happy to talk it through over coffee, maybe somewhere with a view of the rink. Let's Connect.

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