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Seven Corners Shopping Center was the first major shopping center to open in suburban Washington, D.C. It is located in Seven Corners, Fairfax County, Virginia. [1] At its opening in 1956, it was the largest regional shopping center in Virginia. The backsplit two-story mall structure was revamped in the mid-1990s as a dual ground level power ...
Tallest buildings in Arlington since 2017. The View of DC provides access to the top two floors, with a publicly accessible vantage point that opened June 21, 2018. [4] 2 1812 North Moore Street: 390 (119) 35 2013 Rosslyn Office Was the tallest building in the Washington metropolitan area at the time of completion, overtaking the Rosslyn Twin ...
Tenleytown was transformed on October 2, 1941, when Sears Roebuck opened its department store on Wisconsin Avenue at Albemarle Street. At the time the store was notable for its size, and for its 300 car rooftop parking lot. In 1975, the Wisconsin Avenue elevation was altered for the Tenleytown–AU (WMATA station).
Best Products Company, Inc., or simply Best, was a chain of American catalog showroom retail stores founded by Sydney and Frances Lewis in 1957 and formerly headquartered in Richmond, Virginia. The company was in existence for four decades before closing all of their stores by February 1997 and completely liquidating by December 1998.
Aerial view of Tenleytown from the southwest, looking towards Fort Reno Park and Wakefield.Tenley Campus is at the bottom right. Tenley Campus sits atop a knoll, fronting the western edge of Tenley Circle, at the intersection of Nebraska Avenue, Wisconsin Avenue, and Yuma Street NW in Northwest Washington, D.C.'s Tenleytown neighborhood.
Tenleytown is zoned to: Janney Elementary School [9] Alice Deal Middle School [10] Jackson-Reed High School [11] Tenleytown is the location of several independent schools, including National Presbyterian School (PS-6) and Georgetown Day School, whose 2021 campus expansion allowed its lower and middle schools to join the high school in Tenleytown.
In October, Best Buy acquired Minneapolis-based Geek Squad, then a 24-hour residential computer repair business with offices in Minneapolis, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. [33] Best Buy stores in the U.S. surpassed the 600-store mark and the company opened its first global-sourcing office in Shanghai in 2003.
The site of the mall was known as Ball's Crossroads, when Ball's Tavern was located at the site in the early 1800s. [3] Located at the intersection of Wilson Boulevard and Glebe Road, it became the site of Ballston Stadium in the 1930s, a football stadium used by multiple teams, [4] including the Washington Commanders, who practiced there in 1938.