Potomac Mills

Potomac Mills

Location	Woodbridge, Virginia, United States
Opening date	September, 1985
Developer	Mills Corporation
Owner	Simon Property Group
No. of stores and services	225
No. of anchor tenants	22
Total retail floor area	1,606,000 sq. ft.
No. of floors	1

Potomac Mills is a super-regional shopping mall in Woodbridge, Virginia in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area. It is located near Interstate 95 between Smoketown Road, Telegraph Road, and the Prince William Parkway.

The mall was the first in the Mills Corporation's chain of shopping malls, and has over 225 retailers and an 18-screen AMC movie theater. According to the Virginia Tourism Corp., Potomac Mills is the 10th most popular tourism site in the state. In 2004-2005, the mall went through a renovation that was completed on September 20, 2005, which was also the mall's 20th anniversary. The new style of the building is brighter and more inviting. The number of neighborhoods have been reduced from nine to five. Six of the nine main mall entries have newer, modern, wavy arches that has the words "POTOMAC MILLS", but no longer have the mall's circular logo. The mall's current neighborhoods are themed by the different regions of Virginia's landscape: Mountain, Valley, Hill, Plain, and Coast.

Potomac Mills is the largest single-floor mall in the state of Virginia. and the second largest mall in the D.C. area, behind Tysons Corner Center.

In fall 2008, the Potomac Town Center will be opening near the mall. It is owned by Lerner Enterprises and StreetSense, however, it was first managed by the Mills Corporation until the demise of the company. It is expected to have Macy's, smaller shops and residential apartments.

Anchors

The mall features anchor stores, listed below. Previous anchor stores included Daffy's, Frugal Fannie's, IKEA (which moved outside of the mall), Spiegel Outlet, Sun & Ski, SYMS, and Waccamaw Pottery.

• Against All Odds
• AMC Theatres (75,185 sq ft (6,985 m²))
• Books-A-Million (20,048 sq ft (1,863 m²))
• Burlington Coat Factory (80,000 sq ft (7,000 m²))
• The Children's Place (20,081 sq ft (1,866 m²).-Currently constructing)
• Costco (148,663 sq ft (13,811 m²)) (Outside entry only)
• G Street Fabrics (36,522 sq ft (3,393 m²))
• Group USA
• H&M
• JCPenney Outlet Store (107,021 sq ft (9,943 m²))
• Linens 'N Things Superstore (33,743 sq ft (3,135 m²))
• Marshalls (61,763 sq ft (5,738 m²))
• Nike Factory Outlet
• Nordstrom Rack (41,321 sq ft (3,839 m²))
• Off 5th Saks Fifth Avenue (38,210 sq ft (3,550 m²))
• Off Broadway Shoe Warehouse (22,013 sq ft (2,045 m²))
• Old Navy (24,077 sq ft (2,237 m²))
• Sears Outlet (33,008 sq ft (3,067 m²))
• The Sports Authority (42,212 sq ft (3,922 m²))
• Steve & Barry's (35,222 sq ft (3,272 m²))
• TJ Maxx (40,857 sq ft (3,796 m²))
• Urban Behavior

References

http://www.virginia.org/site/description.asp?attrID=10302
http://www.simon.com/mall/default.aspx?ID=1260

External links

• Potomac Mills