Talk:The Village at Shirlington

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I am dubious about the standard practice of listing businesses in articlea like this. Here is a good example.

I have lived in this general area of Northern Virginia for 60 years, currently a few blocks north of Shirlington. (By the way, nobody, except the developer I guess, calls it "The Village At Shirlington".) Anyway, I went over there about three weeks ago. Almost every single business there has permanently closed. Most of the street is boarded up. A few stores looked like they were still in business, but were all closed at 4:00 PM on a normal Friday. Including the anchor Harris-Teeter. Looks like one or two new businesses, such as some kind of art workshop for painters which may or may not also be a restaurant (??) took over one entire end of the street. The CVS and a couple of other shops were open. The Carlyle restaurant was open. Bottom line: Shirlington did not survive the pandeic and is 80% closed down and even boarded up. Everything was doing fine before the pandemic, but Shirlington has always operated on people driving in (mainly to eat). Not on local foot traffic from the condo towers. Perhaps Shirlington will come back in a year or two with new stores. I hope so!

Shopping strip articles are usually out of date. With the pandemic, I suspect the majority are VERY inaccurate now.

Obviously, I'm not the person to update this article. But I thought I'd document that it's about two years (at least) out of date, and therefore mostly wrong. 151.200.26.245 (talk) 18:08, 5 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]