When the holiday season kicks off in Dallas, one of the first questions that gets asked in northern Texas households is, “When are we going to go skating at the Galleria?”

Blading ‘round the rink underneath the mall’s 95-foot-tall Christmas Tree — festooned with more than 400,000 lights and thousands of ornaments — is the holiday event in the Dallas-Fort Worth metro. Each year more than 15,000 people take part in the tradition.

“The skating center has been upgraded and refreshed with a Texas Chalet vibe. The tree got upgraded with programmable lights that we can use to do illumination celebrations,” said Galleria’s general manager Angie Freed, who has worked at the mall since 2009. “It’s going to be better than ever.”

Also new at what is widely considered one of the top malls in the c

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