2024’s Top 10 Retail Center Experiences: No. 9 RIO

CHAIN STORE AGE – Picture a lake where people pedal paddle boats that look like large-scale swans, dragons, and ducks. On the shore, children ride dancing horses on a 19th Century style carousel. Joggers and strollers ply a “Path to Wellness” that rings the lake. In the evening, visitors dine on a roofed barge in the water.

Sound like a brochure for a vacation getaway? Not quite. It’s the latest customer refinement added to Peterson Companies’ RIO center, 20 miles north of Washington, D.C., off I-270.

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