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Bally's Dover Casino Resort, formerly Dover Downs, is a hotel, casino, and racetrack complex in Dover, Delaware. It has a .625-mile (1.006 km) harness horse racing track, which is surrounded by Dover Motor Speedway , a 1-mile (1.6 km) concrete track used for NASCAR motor racing events.
Toppers Pizza is a chain of pizza restaurants in the United States. The company was founded by Scott Gittrich in 1991 in Champaign, Illinois, [1] with the first Toppers Pizza location opened in 1993 in Whitewater, Wisconsin, where the company is headquartered today. [2] and the first franchise store opened in Eau Claire in 1997. [3]
The Pier 1 Imports store in Dover Commons closed in early 2020 due to the chain's bankruptcy. [35] It was replaced by a Boot Barn in 2022. [36] On October 15, 2020, Macy's announced that they would convert the Dover Mall Macy's store into a fulfillment center as online shopping spiked during the COVID-19 pandemic. [37]
A 1992 News Journal market survey showed the Dover Mall drawing a higher percentage of Dover-area shoppers, with 56% regularly shopping at the Dover Mall versus 47% at the Blue Hen Mall. [22] The mall's troubles accelerated in 1993. JCPenney relocated from the Blue Hen Mall to a newly-built space at the Dover Mall in August 1993. [7]
As of the 2020 census, the population was 181,851, making it the least populous county in Delaware. [1] The county seat is Dover, [2] the state capital of Delaware. It is named for Kent, an English county. [3] Kent County comprises the Dover metropolitan area, which is included in the Philadelphia-Reading-Camden, PA-NJ-DE-MD combined ...
Dover – The City that Means Well (according to George Carlin) [3] Lewes – First Town in the First State. [4] Rehoboth Beach – The Nation's Summer Capital. [5] Seaford – The Nylon Capital of the World [6] Wilmington – Chemical Capital of the World. [7]
Victorian Dover Historic District is a national historic district located at Dover, Kent County, Delaware.It encompasses 482 contributing buildings representative of the community's commercial, domestic and industrial development between the first quarter of the 19th century and the first quarter of the 20th century.
Town Point, also known as Kingston-upon-Hull and Logan's Lane, is a historic home located at Dover, Kent County, Delaware. It is one of the oldest buildings in Delaware. It was built in three sections, with the earliest dated to about 1677. The oldest section is a brick, three bay structure consisting of two rooms and a center hall.