Ellsworth Place is a , six-story, enclosed vertical

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in downtown Silver Spring, Maryland. It opened as City Place Mall on April 2, 1992, and is located at the intersection of Fenton Street and Colesville Road ( U.S. Route 29). Dave and Buster's opened in November 2016. The shopping center is located in downtown Silver Spring, which underwent densification and renovation from around 2005 through 2020, resulting in a retail, dining and entertainment hub for the Washington metropolitan area. Ellsworth Place anchors include a two-story Burlington Coat Factory, Dave & Buster's, (as of August 2022) DSW, Five Below, Marshalls, Michaels, Ross Dress for Less and TJ Maxx. An initial redevelopment in the early 2000s saw the addition of a row of street-level shops, including

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, Chipotle Mexican Grill, and

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History

The building that houses the mall was formerly a

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department store, the first suburban Washington, D.C., branch of that company, which opened in 1947; the downtown Silver Spring Hecht's closed when the Hecht's at

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opened in 1987. (The mall is an expansion of the original Hecht's building.) From its start, the mall included "upscale" discount stores, including original tenants Nordstrom Rack and Ross Dress for Less. The mall also included an AMC movie theater on its fifth floor, but it closed shortly after a 20-screen Consolidated Theatres (now

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) opened directly across Ellsworth Drive from Ellsworth Place. In 2005 then up-and-coming artist

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performed a free concert at the mall, on a temporary stage built over the center court fountain. The event was sponsored by radio station Hot 99.5, and was in support of her debut album '' Music of the Sun'', with proceeds donated to victims of

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.http://silverchips.mbhs.edu/story/5876 "Rihanna performs at free concert in City Place Mall," ''Silver Chips Online'', Nov. 12, 2005

References

External links

Downtown Silver Spring - City Place Mall website (accessed Aug 21, 2008)
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