 Ballston Quarter aerial view, 2020 | |
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| Opening date | 1951 (as Parkington Shopping Center) 1986 (as Ballston Common) 2019 (as Ballston Quarter) |
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| Management | Brookfield Properties |
| No. of anchor tenants | 1 (closed) |
| Total retail floor area | 580,000 square feet (54,000 m2) |
| No. of floors | 4 |
| Parking | 3,000 spaces |
| Public transit access |   at Ballston–MU (Washington Metro) |
| Website | ballstonquarter |
Ballston Quarter is one of the first major suburban shopping centers built in the Washington metropolitan area. It opened in 1951 as Parkington Shopping Center and was the nation's first shopping center built around a multi-story parking garage.[1] It is located at the intersection of Glebe Road and Wilson Boulevard in the Ballston neighborhood of Arlington County, Virginia, two blocks from Ballston–MU station on the Washington Metro's Orange and Silver lines. It was remodeled as Ballston Common Mall in 1986 and again in 2019 as Ballston Quarter.[2]
- ^ Eno Transportation Foundation, "Parkington Shopping Center Design," Transportation Quarterly (1952, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 440–456.).
- ^ "Ballston Quarter: A 1950s-Era Mall Turned Inside Out | NAIOP | Commercial Real Estate Development Association". www.naiop.org. Retrieved July 31, 2024.