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The Washington Metro's L'Enfant Plaza station opened on July 1, 1977. [84] [85] The initial entrances were in the courtyard of 400 7th Street SW and at 7th Street SW at Maryland Avenue SW. [84] The entrance inside L'Enfant Plaza, which connects with the "La Promenade" underground shopping mall, opened in October 1977. [84]
Zeckendorf named this mall L'Enfant Plaza after Pierre Charles L'Enfant, [10] an architect responsible for planning the city of Washington. [11] L'Enfant Plaza was approved for construction in April 1955. [12] In December 1959, Zeckendorf won approval to build a 1,000-room hotel and five privately owned office buildings on L'Enfant Plaza. [13]
SS Pierre L'Enfant, a 1943 cargo ship; L'Enfant Plaza, a complex of office buildings, a hotel, and an underground shopping mall in Washington, D.C. L'Enfant Plaza Station, a transit station serving the plaza "L'Enfant", a song by Vangelis from the 1979 album Opéra sauvage "L'Enfant", a poem by Victor Hugo from the 1829 collection Les Orientales
The shuttle stops at L'Enfant Plaza station on the Washington Metro, the International Spy Museum, and the National Mall adjacent to the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. [31] The walk from L'Enfant Metro to the Wharf is less than ten minutes, with a pedestrian walkway along L'Enfant Plaza.
The north-south upper level stretches from C Street to E Street; the east-west lower level stretches from 9th Street to 6th Street. Metro entrances are located at the L'Enfant Plaza shopping mall concourse at 9th and D Streets, on D Street between 6th and 7th Streets, and at Maryland Avenue and 7th Street. [3]
And in an era of brick-and-mortar chain store closings, it continues to thrive because of its emphasis on local shops, restaurants and services, said Phillip Gesue, owner of Colony Plaza LLC and ...
Park & Shop, also known as Sam's Park and Shop, in the Cleveland Park neighborhood of Washington, D.C., is one of the first neighborhood shopping centers (or strip malls). It opened in 1930 with 11 tenants and was anchored by two grocery stores: an A&P and a Piggly Wiggly. The center is still in operation, currently anchored by Target.
Ginseng and gift shops, hotels and jewelry stores can no longer rely on regular busloads of Chinese visitors. Chinese tourism spending in Los Angeles County fell to $693 million in 2020, down from ...