Re: What was in the Fairfax Plaza shopping center before cube smart and unique?
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Where you'll love it....
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Date: May 15, 2019 12:55AM
6cwvw Wrote:
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> Plaza geek Wrote:
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> > So this plaza in Merrifield is a dump and
> > apparently is slated for redevelopment. Does
> > anyone know what kind of stores were there
> before
> > it all turned to shit with Unique? Figure
> there
> > must have been the usual grocery store and
> > discount store, but the cube smart building
> looks
> > purpose built so another structure must have
> been
> > there.
> >
> > Old timers share your memories before they fade
> > away!
>
>
> The building where Cube Smart is was a Levitz
> Furniture store. Awesome place to get furniture
> back in the day. The left part of the building was
> a showroom and the rest of building was a huge
> warehouse with shelving at least five levels high.
> You would walk through the showroom, pick what you
> wanted, pay for it, then go out into the warehouse
> and watch the guys use motorized lifts to go
> around and pull your furniture. They would then
> drive the lift up to the bay door and put the
> stuff in the back of your car/truck. It was the
> last reasonably priced furniture store in Fairfax.
> It was years after they closed that places like
> Ikea and Bob's opened.
YOU'LL LOVE IT AT LEVITZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!