Like its neighbor, Capital Plaza Mall, it was a major attraction through its opening years in Prince George's County.

The main fountain in the mall contained three circular platforms, each representing a loop within the Capital Beltway interchange at Landover Road.

During the holiday season the center ring fountains would be shut off and replaced with its annual secular Holiday displays, which featured gingerbread house, fairies, candy canes, snowmen, reindeer, sleigh ride, doves and a "Cupcake Boat Ride", but no Santa or explicit references to Christmas.

[4] In its prime, Landover Mall had three local department store anchors: Hecht's, Garfinckel's, Woodward & Lothrop (Woodies), and two national chains, Sears and F. W. Woolworth Company.

Washington DC Business Journal described Landover Mall in 1998 as " dogged since the mid-1980s by perceptions -- real and imagined -- of crime, drugs and violence in nearby communities, like Palmer Park and Seat Pleasant".

The article also noted that competition from White Flint Mall and inability to replace vacated stores were factors in its poor reception.

The mall's doors were sealed shut with cinder blocks, although the Sears store remained open.

Political complications in 2017 undid any progress which had been made and in October 2018, Lerner put the whole site up for sale.