It originally opened with a 2-story McAlpin's, Shoppers Choice Supermarket and a CSC discount store in 1971; however, the enclosed mall portion was not completed due to the bankruptcy of its primary developers.

[5] They also opened an auxiliary store in the former Shopper's Choice/County Market after Heleringer's Furniture spent a short time in the building.

Then in September 1996, another attempt to modernize came with plan to add an additional story to the main concourse; this too was never able to become reality.

[6] The mall was once owned by Saul Centers Inc, a real-estate holding firm based in Bethesda, Maryland, offering no detailed plans for redevelopment or adaptive reuse.

The local government once expressed interest in using eminent domain to purchase the dead mall and turn it into a small park, but took no action in doing so.