Waynesboro Outlet Village

In its heyday, the facility housed factory outlet stores and in later years housed a combination of outlet stores and offices for nonprofit organizations.

[citation needed] Between its 1987 opening and spring 2006 closing,[1] retail tenants included Bannister Shoe, Bass Shoes, Bugle Boy, Capacity, Christmas Goose, Corning-Revere, Crafters Corner, Fannie Farmer, L'eggs-Hanes-Bali, Liz Claiborne, Petal Pushers, Sam's Factory Outlet, The Paper Factory, The Ribbon Outlet, Royal Dalton, Tile Visions, Virginia MetalCrafters, and Westport Ltd. Non-traditional tenants have included the Artisans Center of Virginia, Borg-Warner Services, Computer Redistribution Team, Dance Augusta, Northrop Grumman Information Technology and One Child at a Time (OCAT).

[citation needed] The Waynesboro Outlet Village was demolished during August 2006 to make way for a new retail center, with the first new tenants planned to open in the fall of 2007.

Former Fire chief Charles Scott described the situation as "win-win", as the fire department is able to conduct valuable training, while the new developers are able to save on demolition costs.

[1] Waynesboro city officials confirmed in June 2006 that the shopping center would be anchored by Target and Kohl's.

The Waynesboro Outlet Village as seen from US 340 .
Building 7 burns to the ground as part of a fire department training exercise.