A Penney Spent

What Do You Think You're Looking At? #260

I always wondered how the Ross Dress for Less store in Old Town Alexandria, which recently closed, began life. It seems like a very large storefront for the otherwise granular streetscape of Old Town, with tons of little storefronts. Here it is on Google Maps in April 2025, before it closed:

At first I speculated that it was a recent building that had re…