The Boulevard at the Capital Centre

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Boulevard at the Capital Centre
The Boulevard at the Capital Centre
Location Lake Arbor, Maryland
Opening date2003
Closing dateNovember 2017
Developer Cordish Company
ManagementInland Management
No. of stores and services70
No. of anchor tenants 4
Total retail floor area 485,276 sq ft (45,083.6 m2) [1]
No. of floors1
Public transit access WMATA Metro Logo small.svg Washington Metro:
WMATA Blue.svg WMATA Silver.svg at Downtown Largo
Aiga bus trans.svg TheBus: 21, 26, 28
Aiga bus trans.svg Metrobus: C21, C22, C26, C27, C29
Website www.shopcapcentre.com (archived on October 7, 2016)
The Boulevard at the Capital Centre as seen from the parking garage of the nearby Downtown Largo Metro station. Boulevard at the Capital Centre.jpg
The Boulevard at the Capital Centre as seen from the parking garage of the nearby Downtown Largo Metro station.

The Boulevard at the Capital Centre was an open-air shopping center in Lake Arbor, Prince George's County, Maryland; it had a Largo postal address. [2] [3] It was located on the former site of the Capital Centre, previously the home of the Washington Bullets and Washington Capitals.

Opened in 2003, [4] the Boulevard at the Capital Centre was located next to the Downtown Largo Washington Metro station (the eastern terminus of the Blue and Silver lines). The facility had more than 70 establishments. It was formerly the home of short-lived chain restaurant Gladys Knight & Ron Winans' Chicken & Waffles.

Though it was envisioned as a middle-class destination when it opened, the mall soon began to struggle. [4] Its more desirable retailers closed and were replaced with downscale offerings like T-shirt and cell phone shops; many vacancies also remained. [4] It also experienced problems with crime: five people were killed at the mall between 2005 and 2009, and there were 101 car break-ins in 2008. [4]

In November 2017, the shopping center closed to build the new University of Maryland Capital Region Medical Center. In addition there were to be new luxury apartments, restaurants, and a shopping center.

When the Boulevard closed, surviving businesses included Chick-Fil-A, TGI Friday's, Chuck E. Cheese's, Carolina Kitchen, The Magic Johnson Theater (AMC Theatres), Phoenix Salon, Longhorn Steakhouse, and Golden Corral. The area will be known as Downtown Largo once completed.

In July 2019, demolition of 290,000 square feet (27,000 m2) of retail space commenced to make way for Carillon, a new lifestyle-oriented mixed-use development on the same site. [5] The University of Maryland Capital Region Health was completed and opened on June 8, 2021. [6]

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References

  1. "Leasing information". Inland Western Retail Real Estate Trust Inc. Retrieved 17 January 2012.
  2. "2010 CENSUS - CENSUS BLOCK MAP (INDEX): Lake Arbor CDP, MD." U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved on September 1, 2018. Pages: 1 and 2.
  3. Contact Us." The Boulevard at the Capital Centre. Retrieved on September 9, 2018. "Boulevard at the Capital Centre 900 Capital Centre Boulevard Largo, MD 20774"
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  6. "'We have to get it right': Inside UM Capital's soon-to-open Largo hospital — and what comes next". Washington Business Journal. June 3, 2021. Retrieved 2022-06-22.

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