Ballston Quarter swaps a Macy’s store for apartments
In 1951 Parkington Shopping Center opened at North Glebe Road and Wilson Boulevard in Arlington, Virginia, and Ballston became the county’s second major place to shop.
The property was remade once in 1986, when it was converted into the enclosed Ballston Common Mall. Housing arrived with the second remaking.
In November 2015 the Arlington County Board approved a plan to open the enclosed mall to the outside, with a new plaza, a mews, new streetscape, and storefronts turned toward the streets…