It was built as a joint venture between The May Department Stores Company and Strouse, Greenberg & Co., based on the design of John Graham, Jr. and Ward and Hall.

1976, longtime fugitive William Bradford Bishop bought a ball peen hammer and gas can at the mall to allegedly kill and burn his family.

An expansion wing featured the first Nordstrom in Maryland[10] and the third in the Washington, D.C.. metropolitan area, and Crate & Barrel.

It closed in April 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic;[13] in February 2022, AMC Theatres acquired the lease to the cinema and announced that it would reopen the following month.

[15][16] In June 2018, Westfield announced Sears would close and transform into additional stores and an open-air mixed-use center.