Rosemont Retail - Mount Vernon Avenue

The stores at 1302 – 1310 Mount Vernon Avenue are at the northern edge of what could be considered to be Rosemont (Alexandria’s neighborhood boundaries are unofficial, and Del Ray also stakes a claim).

The building was built in the early 1950s, and currently is occupied by two restaurants, a dry cleaner, a barber shop, and a hair salon.  Previous tenants included a bakery/delicatessen, a rug store, a yoga studio, a massage parlor, a youth counseling center, and a car stereo shop.

The tenant with the longest pedigree is the South China Restaurant, which has been there since the early 1970s, replacing the Sugar Bowl variety store (the attached photo is from 1976).