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The Village at Shirlington opened as Shirlington Shopping Center in 1944, and was the first large shopping center to open in the Washington, D.C. suburbs and one of the earliest in the United States. It is located along Campbell Avenue (formerly South 28th Street) at the intersection of Shirley Highway and Quaker Lane / Shirlington Road in ...
In March 1986, Mary Baynes Gift Shop closed its doors. [4] Redevelopment of the Center commenced in Summer 1988, when the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation demolished the old center and erected a new satellite office and other buildings on the site. [5] [6] [7] The Virginia Square–GMU station on the Washington Metro is named after the ...
The mall was developed by Melvin Simon & Associates with real-estate investment firm Rose Associates as part of the 1976 Pentagon City Phased-Development Site Plan. [3] It opened in fall 1989 with 860,000 sq. ft. of space [4] on 25 acres, with Macy's and Nordstrom as anchor stores (original plans were for Bambergers) [5] and approximately 150 other stores, and a 4,524-capacity parking garage ...
Virginia Square is home to the Arlington campus of George Mason University, including its Law School and the Schar School of Policy and Government, the Arlington Arts Center, some offices of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), and the main branch of the Arlington Public Library. The area's name is derived from the former Virginia ...
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.
Forum 303 Mall was a shopping mall built at Pioneer Parkway and SH 360 in Arlington, Texas in the Mid-Cities between Fort Worth and Dallas. The 800,000-square-foot (74,000 m 2) complex was dedicated September 19, 1970. Interesting features of it was that it included a public ice skating rink, and a public amphitheater in the lower level.
Arlington is a city in northern Snohomish County, Washington, United States, part of the Seattle metropolitan area. The city lies on the Stillaguamish River in the western foothills of the Cascade Range , adjacent to the city of Marysville .
Arlington Village was the sixth FHA project built by Gustave Ring in 1939. It was designed by Harvey Warwick, a Washington architect who had designed Colonial Village with Ring in 1935. Ring and Warwick applied the concept of the successful Colonial Village to Arlington Village.