Lake Montclair Center — Local services in Dale City

This shopping center is so conveniently located in reference to my house. I mostly frequent the Dollar Tree, the Food Lion, the Burger King, the Domino's, the Subway, and the Chinese restaurant (New Hunan). My mom does most of the cooking in my house, but we do eat out occasionally. It's so important to support businesses, whether small businesses or large businesses. And I have my own business technically, as I am self-employed but work through Wyzant. Anyway, it's a small world, and our DNA is even smaller. Just goes to show how closely connected we all are. Subway makes the subs very quickly, and one of the female workers is my friend. Burger King just did a renovation/remodeling, so it looks really nice now. The Chinese restaurant is probably the most expensive one in that center, besides maybe the Japanese restaurant. Yet, the Chinese food is really filling and appetizing. Food Lion has all your basic needs, allowing you to have the ingredients necessary to cook for yourself. It's important to have a membership for Food Lion to get discounts. Domino's is good too, and you can get rewards if you use the app/website, just like with Subway ($2 off every so often) and Burger King. Dollar Tree has party supplies, decorations, books, educational resources for young students, cards (e.g. Hallmark), snacks, candy, drinks, seasonal supplies, car...

The "Dollar Tree" was bad. I couldn't take pics because I just needed to get out asap. I understand being under staffed and changing of the season but there was trash all over the floor, nothing on the shelves and only one line opened. I had to take a picture of my receipt (only took a pic cause register didn't print an original copy and I didn't want to hold up line??) because cashier wasn't clear on how to reprint a receipt. Manager then proceeded to talk cashier through the steps. Hopefully when I revisit it will look...

A convenient location for local residents - with a number of small businesses at the center. Includes two banks, fast food chains, restaurants beauty shops, child care, sports/dance and a medium size grocery store in addition to other businesses. Gets the job done, not much to look at. Great having a shopping center here in Montclair so not to have to travel some distance for food,...