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New Dollar Store Opens in Centreville

Grand opening celebration set for Saturday with a clown, face-painting and free stuff.

Centreville shoppers have a new discount outlet in town with the opening of another Dollar Tree store near the site of the old, post-colonial Newgate Tavern, visited by George Washington while he was the country’s first president. 

The new store, at 14120 B Lee Highway in the Newgate Shopping Center, opened to customers last week. Store officials plan a full-scale grand opening on Saturday, said store Manager Carrie Sullivan. They expect to have a clown, kids games, a face-painter and plenty of freebies to give away to celebrate the opening. 

The store sits near the site of the long-gone Newgate Tavern, built when the community was just a post-revolution crossroads town known as Newgate village. It was renamed Centreville in 1792 when the Virginia assembly gave it town status. More recently, the site was a fabric store, but was empty for about a year before the Dollar Tree chain leased the space. The company, which started as a single store about 50 years ago, has thousands of outlets in the 48 contiguous states. 

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Sullivan said they stocked the 9,000-square-foot store in about six days, probably a company record for getting a facility up and running. They have been jammed since the opening and a customer on Tuesday came up—unprompted—to thank Sullivan for opening the store. 

“We are getting a lot of that,” Sullivan said. “People are just happy to have the store open.” 

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Although there are two other Dollar Tree franchises in the area and a number of nearby dollar-discount competitors, Sullivan said she thought the store’s location in the shopping plaza would make it successful. The store is adjacent to a U.S. Post Office and to . The shopping center, at Routes 28 and 29, also sees a great deal of foot traffic generated by the grocery store as well as two popular restaurants. 

If the customer response so far is any indication, that strategy should be a success.

“At least now I don’t have to go all the way to Manassas to get to a Dollar Tree,” said Susan Hines, of Centreville. “We are so glad that it’s here.” 

Tae Suk You, also of Centreville, agreed. 

“This is the best dollar store ever,” You said. “It’s very clean inside. I like it a lot.”

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