Ellsworth Place

"City Place Mall" redirects here. For other malls, see Cityplace (disambiguation).
Ellsworth Place
Location 8661 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
Opening date April 2, 1992
Owner Petrie Richardson Ventures
No. of anchor tenants 2
Total retail floor area 350,000 square feet (33,000 m2)
No. of floors 6
Website www.ellsworthplace.com

Ellsworth Place is a 350,000-square-foot (33,000 m2), six-story, enclosed shopping mall in downtown Silver Spring, Maryland. It opened as City Place Mall on April 2, 1992,[1][2] and is located at the intersection of Fenton Street and Colesville Road (U.S. Route 29). The mall, which is currently undergoing extensive renovations but is still open to the public, will have a grand reopening in early 2016.

The mall is at the center of a revitalizing downtown Silver Spring.[3] Current Ellsworth Place anchors include Marshalls and Burlington Coat Factory. An initial redevelopment in the early 2000s saw the addition of a row of street-level shops, including PNC Bank, Noodles & Company, Chipotle Mexican Grill, and Ben & Jerry's. As of early 2015 the mall is undergoing extensive internal renovations. Management has announced the addition of several new anchors to open their doors at the completion of the current build-out.[4]

History

Main Entrance at the corner of Colesville Rd. and Fenton St. from the era it was known as 'City Place Mall'
Exterior rendering from Fenton Street and Colesville Road, showing it renamed as 'Ellsworth Place'

The building that houses the mall was formerly a Hecht Company 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 Wheaton Plaza 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.[5] The mall also included an AMC movie theater on its fifth floor, but it closed shortly after a 20-screen Consolidated Theatres (now Regal Theaters) opened directly across Ellsworth Drive from Ellsworth Place. In 2005 Rihanna did a free concert at the mall, on a temporary stage that covered the fountain. The event was sponsored by D.C.'s hit music station Hot 99.5, and was in support of her debut album Music of the Sun, with proceeds donated to victims of Hurricane Katrina.[6]

Current anchors

New anchors (opening early 2016)

Former anchors

References

  1. ↑ "City Place Grand Opening Today," The Washington Post, Apr 2, 1992, p. M5.
  2. ↑ "Silver Spring Mall Calls Shoppers Back Home," by Retha Hill, The Washington Post, Apr 3, 1992, p. 1.
  3. ↑ "A Slow, Sure Bloom After the Boom; Developments in Silver Spring Gain Momentum After Years of Planning," by Neil Irwin, The Washington Post, Jun 24, 2002, p. E4.
  4. ↑ "Ellsworth Place / H&R Retail". H&R Retail. Retrieved March 11, 2015.
  5. ↑ "For Silver Spring Mall, Downtown Is No Paradise; City Place Hanging On, but Still Battling for Business," by Charles Babington; Louis Aguilar, The Washington Post, Jun 12, 1994, p. B1.
  6. ↑ http://silverchips.mbhs.edu/story/5876 "Rihanna performs at free concert in City Place Mall," Silver Chips Online, Nov. 12, 2005

External links

Coordinates: 38°59′47″N 77°1′37″W / 38.99639°N 77.02694°W / 38.99639; -77.02694

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