The Outlet Collection Seattle

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The Outlet Collection | Seattle

The southeast entrance to The Outlet Collection | Seattle.
Location	Auburn, Washington
Opened	August 25, 1995; 31 years ago (August 25, 1995)
Previous names	Supermall of the Great Northwest
Developer	Glimcher Realty Trust
Management	Urban Retail Properties
Owner	The Lightstone Group
Stores	140
Floor area	943,273 sq ft (87,632 m²)
Floors	1
Parking	Parking lot with 5,000 free spaces
Website	outletcollectionseattle.com

The Outlet Collection | Seattle is an outlet mall in Auburn, Washington, United States, that opened in August 1995. The mall is currently anchored by Burlington, Nordstrom Rack, Dave & Busters, FieldhouseUSA, and Discount Collection Depot. There is one vacant anchor space previously occupied by Best Buy Outlet. Junior anchors include Ashley HomeStore, Fitness Quest, Old Navy Outlet, and H&M. A Walmart Supercenter and Regal Cinemas movie theater are also located on mall property.

History

The mall opened on August 25, 1995, under the name Supermall of the Great Northwest, and was developed by Glimcher Realty Trust.

Its anchors then included Nordstrom Rack, Bed Bath & Beyond, Oshman's SuperSports USA (Later Sports Authority until 2016), Burlington Coat Factory, Saks Fifth Avenue (later Old Navy and Ulta Beauty), Marshalls (later Dave & Buster's), and Incredible Universe. In its first year of business, the mall contained 175 stores and drew more than 14 million customers. By 1998, Saks Fifth Avenue and one fifth of the stores had closed.

The Incredible Universe store on the north side of the mall was closed in 1997 after the company's demise; it was converted into a Sam's Club with 154,000 square feet (14,300 m²).

Walmart moved to a new Supercenter location on the north side of the mall complex in October 2010 and agreed to manage the sale of its old locations on the west side of the mall. The old building was purchased by Coastal Farm & Ranch, an Oregon-based chain of outdoor and farm retail stores. The store composition at the SuperMall was later dominated by outlet stores, which led to a $30 million renovation to move the food court and add pedestrian corridors in 2012. Several strip malls and restaurants were also constructed on the perimeter of the mall.^{[citation needed]}

In May 2012, the outlet mall was rebranded The Outlet Collection | Seattle to reflect its new focus.

The Sam's Club location closed in January 2018 as part of the company's withdrawal from the Seattle market. It was replaced by FieldHouseUSA, a multipurpose indoor sports facility that was scheduled to open in 2020; the COVID-19 pandemic delayed its full opening to 2021.

In the 2020s, the former Dick’s Warehouse Sale was eventually replaced by Discount Collection Depot. Discount Collection Depot is a liquidation and overstock store that sells a wide variety of merchandise, appliances, electronics, and furniture at a discounted price.

In November 2023, Bed Bath & Beyond was eventually replaced by Best Buy Outlet. However, the store had closed by 2026.

The Lightstone Group acquired the mall from Washington Prime Group in November 2024 for $82 million and announced a capital improvement program that would begin at an unspecified date. Syracuse based Spinoso Real Estate Group soon after managed the mall. In October 2025, Chicago based Urban Retail Properties announced on its LinkedIn page that it was assigned management of the mall.

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