Potomac Mills is a shopping mall

Shopping mall

A shopping mall, shopping centre, shopping arcade, shopping precinct or simply mall is one or more buildings forming a complex of shops representing merchandisers, with interconnecting walkways enabling visitors to easily walk from unit to unit, along with a parking area — a modern, indoor version...

 in Woodbridge, VA in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area

Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area

The Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area is a combined statistical area consisting of the overlapping labor market region of the cities of Baltimore, Maryland and Washington, D.C.. The region includes Central Maryland, Northern Virginia, and Jefferson County in the Eastern Panhandle of West...

. It is located near Interstate 95

Interstate 95 in Virginia

In the Commonwealth of Virginia, Interstate 95 runs through the state. It runs concurrently for with Interstate 64 in Richmond, and meets the northern terminus of Interstate 85 in Petersburg. Though Interstate 95 was originally planned to go straight through Washington, D.C., it was instead...

 between Smoketown Road, Telegraph Road and the Prince William Parkway

Prince William Parkway

The Prince William Parkway is a road in Prince William County, Virginia. The road carries two designations. Between U.S. Route 1 in Woodbridge and Dumfries Road near Manassas it carries SR 3000...

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The mall was the first in the Mills Corporation

Mills Corporation

The Mills Corporation was a publicly traded real estate investment trust headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, United States, acquired on April 3, 2007 by an investment group composed of Simon Property Group and Farallon Capital Management. The company developed, owned, and operated major...

's chain of shopping malls, and has over 225 retailers and an 18-screen AMC movie theater

AMC Theatres

AMC Theatres , officially known as AMC Entertainment, Inc., is the second largest movie theater chain in North America with 5,325 screens, second only to Regal Entertainment Group, and one of the United States's four national cinema chains AMC Theatres (American Multi-Cinema), officially known as...

. According to the Virginia Tourism Corp., Potomac Mills is the 10th most popular tourism site in the state. The mall went through a renovation that was completed on September 20, 2005, which was also the mall's 20th anniversary.
Potomac Mills is the largest single-floor mall in Virginia

Virginia

The Commonwealth of Virginia , is a U.S. state on the Atlantic Coast of the Southern United States. Virginia is nicknamed the "Old Dominion" and sometimes the "Mother of Presidents" after the eight U.S. presidents born there...

 and the second largest mall in the D.C. area, behind Tysons Corner Center

Tysons Corner Center

Tysons Corner Center, located in the Tysons Corner unincorporated area in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States , opened to the public in 1968, becoming one of the first fully enclosed, climate-controlled shopping centers in the Washington Metropolitan Area...

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External links

• Potomac Mills
• http://www.virginia.org/site/description.asp?attrID=10302
• http://www.simon.com/mall/default.aspx?ID=1260
• http://www.insidenova.com/isn/news/local/article/potomac_mills_releases_expansion_plans/15579/
• Potomac Mills review