Dulles Town Center is a

census-designated place A census-designated place (CDP) is a concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only. CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counterparts of incorporated places, such ...

(CDP) in

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, United States. It is located about north of

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. The CDP is the location of the

Dulles Town Center Dulles Town Center is a two-level enclosed shopping mall in Sterling, Virginia, Sterling in Loudoun County, Virginia. It is located north of Washington Dulles International Airport. It is part of the Dulles Town Center, Virginia, Dulles Town Ce ...

shopping mall, for which it is named. The

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considers Dulles Town Center to be a subsection of Dulles, which is itself a subsection of Sterling; none of these locations is an incorporated municipality. The population as of the

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was 4,601.

History

In December 1987, Loudoun County officials approved the jurisdiction's first regional shopping mall. The mall was originally planned to be named the "Windmill Regional Shopping Center" but was later renamed to "Dulles Town Center" in 1988. The original expected opening was set for 1993. Dulles Town Center's developer was

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. The mall was put on hold until 1994 due to the downturn in the local economy. In March of that year the mall announced it would start construction that spring with plans to be open 1996. With further delays, it wasn't until the summer of 1996 that Dulles Town Center broke ground. The mall opened its first two anchor stores (

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and

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) on November 18, 1998. The ribbon-cutting ceremony for Dulles Town Center took place on August 12, 1999.

Geography

The Dulles Town Center CDP is in eastern Loudoun County. It is bordered to the north by

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(Leesburg Pike) and to the west by

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. Neighboring communities are Sterling to the south and east,

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and Kincora to the west, and

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and Cascades to the north. Dulles Town Center is southeast of Leesburg, the Loudoun

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, and northwest of downtown

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According to the

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, the CDP has a total area of , of which , or 0.94%, are water. The community drains westward to Broad Run, a north-flowing tributary of the

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Government

Loudoun County Board of Supervisors

Dulles Town Center is part of the Broad Run District of the

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, represented by Sylvia R. Glass.

Virginia General Assembly

Dulles Town Center is part of Virginia's 87th House of Delegates district, represented by

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Suhas Subramanyam, first elected in 2019, who resides in

. The CDP is also a part of Virginia's 33rd

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district, represented by Democrat

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, first elected in 2019, who resides in

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U.S. Congress

Dulles Town Center is part of

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, represented by Democrat

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, first elected in 2018, who resides in Leesburg. Dulles Town Center is represented in the

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by Democrat

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and Democrat

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References

External links

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