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Westfield Montgomery - Bethesda; Westfield Wheaton - Wheaton; Prince George's County: Beltway Plaza Mall - Greenbelt; Bowie Town Center - Bowie; The Centre at Forestville - Forestville; The Shops at Iverson - Hillcrest Heights; The Mall at Prince Georges - Hyattsville; Queen Anne's County: Queenstown Premium Outlets; Washington County ...
A mid-1970s expansion added a US$4.5 million, 155,000-square-foot (14,400 m 2) Woodward & Lothrop store and 60,000 square feet (5,600 m 2) of additional retail space for 40 stores. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] On March 1. 1976, longtime fugitive William Bradford Bishop bought a ball peen hammer and gas can at the mall to allegedly kill and burn his family.
The mall was named in honor of Lake Walker, a man-made lake and park on the property prior. The mall opened with approximately 30-50 stores, [12] with some of the first stores being relocated from the then nearby indoor Village Mall (now an outdoor strip mall called Montgomery Village Center since circa 1991) and absorbed onto the property. [13]
On the day before it opened, the Woodward & Lothrop store was picketed because the tea room in its location in Chevy Chase refused service to African Americans. [ 12 ] Wheaton Plaza officially opened on February 5, 1960, [ 13 ] as a single-level, open-air mall, with Woodward & Lothrop (now JCPenney) and Montgomery Ward (now Target) as anchors ...
The Washington Post noted in 2000 that the gallery was able to take advantage of the then emerging Internet to stage art shows which "draws entries from all over the world", [35] and a few years earlier, in 1998, praised the gallery for having "one of the liveliest, best-looking and best-organized sites in town", [36] in a seminal article about ...
RIO Washingtonian Center, stylized as rio, is a 760,000 sq ft (71,000 m 2) hybrid power center and lifestyle center with shopping, restaurants, and entertainment in Gaithersburg, Maryland located immediately south of the interchange between Interstate 270 and 370. The original RIO building opened in 1982, while the adjacent "Washingtonian ...
White Flint Mall was a shopping mall, located along Rockville Pike, in Montgomery County, Maryland, that closed in early 2015 and demolished thereafter.Its former anchors were Lord & Taylor, Bloomingdale's, Dave & Buster's, H&M, Loews Theatre and Borders, the last four of which acted as junior anchors for the mall.
There are free outdoor concerts in summer, as well as the Backyard Theater for Children every Thursday morning. The art of Strathmore brings in thousands of visitors each year. There are more than two dozen exhibitions each season from local artists and from collaborations with renowned museums, such as the Baltimore Museum.