Originally named Parkington Shopping Center, Ballston Quarter (previously Ballston Common Mall) was one of the first significant suburban shopping centers in the Washington, D.C. area.
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It was the first shopping mall in the country to be constructed around a multi-story parking garage when it debuted in 1951. It is situated two blocks from the Ballston-MU station on the Orange and Silver lines of the Washington Metro at the junction of Glebe Road and Wilson Boulevard in the Ballston neighborhood in Arlington County, Virginia.