Springfield Plaza Shopping Center

Here follows an excerpt from "Post WW2 History of Springfield, Virginia and The Crestwood Construction Corporation" as written by Robyn Carter:

In the August of 1960, The Springfield Plaza opened with a huge “Super Giant” in the same location that it occupied until recently when it moved into the renovated early 1980s K-Mart building. Giant Food had been upgrading some of their traditional markets with additional merchandise that was more in the household goods vein along with the grocery items and those locations were named “Super Giant” stores. A People’s Drug store and a People’s Hardware store (not related) opened to the left of Giant and on the far right a S. S. Kresge’s “Five and Dime” style retailer presented Springfielder’s with a great discount store for many of their needs that they formerly had to drive into Shirlington or Alexandria for.

Springfield Oddity Note: In newspaper ads in 1960, the current Concord Center was being called “The Springfield Plaza Shopping Center” while later in the year, and up to the current day, the center that had Giant was also called the same thing. Until the current naming, the center on Backlick didn’t seem to have an official name outside of those early ads.