Alban Odoulamy has been selling puppets out of his shop in the Crystal City Underground for 28 years. Opening as "La Marionette" in April 1996, that shop now Puppet Heaven at 1750 Crystal Drive has shifted locations over decades, but it's always stayed in the subterranean mall. However, following last month's announcement that
For nearly 50 years, Jack Levonian’s photography store has occupied a small piece of subterranean real estate in Arlington, a catacomb called the Crystal City Underground. Levonian and his Metro Camera shop moved in after the underground mall opened in 1976. It was the happening place to be back then, he says, a shopping center
It's the end of an era in Crystal City. The neighborhood, which has seen significant new development since Amazon's HQ2 decision, is losing one of the most memorable vestiges of its time as a drab hub of military and government offices. JBG Smith, the main property owner in the area, said today that all remaining
A new restaurant is set to fill a decade-long vacancy in Crystal City. Lantern Restaurant & Bar, owned by Shen Zhao and Bing Liu, is moving into a storefront at the base of an apartment building at 320 23rd Street S., last occupied by Matsutake Hibachi Steak and Sushi until its closure in 2014. The