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DC USA

Field	Value
name	DC USA
image	DCUSANighttime.Wikipedia.jpg
image_width	250px
location	Washington, D.C., United States
coordinates
address	3100 14th Street NW
opening_date	February 2008
owner	DC USA Operating Co., LLC
publictransit	at Columbia Heights (Washington Metro)
Metrobus: C61, D50, D5X, D60, D6X, D74
architect	Bower Lewis Thrower Architects
number_of_anchors	9
floor_area	546000 sqft
parking	1,000 spaces
floors	3
website

Metrobus: C61, D50, D5X, D60, D6X, D74 DC USA is an 890000 sqft vertical power center, i.e. a multilevel enclosed urban shopping center anchored by big box stores. It is located in the Columbia Heights neighborhood of Washington, D.C. A Washington City Paper poll named DC USA the "Best Designed Retail Space" of 2009. The development is adjacent to the Columbia Heights station on the Green and Yellow Lines of the Washington Metro. It is also served by six bus routes and has a 1,000-space parking garage.

The complex is accessible to more than 36,000 residents within a 10-minute walk of the site. A total of 335,000 residents live within a 3 mi radius. The development has been designed to fit into its urban setting, with the buildings holding the street line to frame the sidewalks and continue the urban scale.

Target, one of the anchors, has expanded its urban store concept to numerous cities across the country.

Tenants

Tenants include:

Bank of America
Burlington
Best Buy
Chase Bank
Chick-fil-A
IHOP
Krispy Kreme
Lidl
Marshalls
Mattress Firm
Old Navy
Panda Express
Snipes
Taco Bell
Target
New York Sports Club

Site history

DC USA sits on the site of the old Romanesque Revival style electric streetcar garage of the Capitol Traction Company built in 1892, located at what was then the terminus of a streetcar line. After the line was extended north the building was no longer needed as a car barn and in 1910, investors repurposed it as an entertainment complex, The Arcade. It contained ground floor retail space, an auditorium, dance hall, cinema, small Dutch restaurant, pool, bowling alley, and food market with over 100 vendor stalls. After commercial decline and debt, Kress purchased the building in 1947 and tore it down, eventually building a two-story commercial building that would house a Safeway supermarket and People's Drug store.

References

"Best Designed Retail Space 2009". Washington City Paper.
Washington, DC Economic Partnership (2008). "2008 Neighborhood Profiles – Columbia Heights"
Tomberlin, Michael. (April 8, 2012). "2-story Target to open in Homewood in March 2013". [[The Birmingham News]].
"City Target opens in downtown Portland today". [[KPTV]].
"Stores & Hours".
(2014-04-07). "The Arcade in Columbia Heights, "Washington’s Madison Square Garden"".

Wikipedia Source

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