The Village at Shirlington
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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.
Entrance to The Village at Shirlington
Parkfairfax, Virginia
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Parkfairfax is a neighborhood in Alexandria, Virginia, located in the northwestern part of the city near the boundary with Arlington County. Nearby thoroughfares are Interstate 395, State Route 402, a
The Village at Shirlington
…originally developed by Joseph Cherner, automobile dealer and banker, on a 231⁄2-acre site to provide for the basic shopping needs of the nearby sprawling Parkfairfax, developed by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, and the Defense Homes Corporation development at Fairlington. He established the Shirlington…
Preston Road entrance to Parkfairfax
Parkfairfax in 2006