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In 1993, Arlington County published a bilingual (English and Vietnamese) guide to starting a business in Arlington, which was targeted to Vietnamese business people. Arlington County has since initiated ongoing small business assistance through the Economic Development Authority, which is a recommendation in the 2006 Clarendon Sector Plan. [18]
The center opened in 1962 as the Plaza Seven Shopping Center, with a Grand Union supermarket and a Zayre discount store serving as anchors. [4] After the Grand Union store closed in 1984, Vietnamese merchants displaced from the "Little Saigon" area in the Clarendon neighborhood of nearby Arlington, Virginia, due to Washington Metro subway construction and redevelopment moved into the space, as ...
The building is a designated Arlington County landmark and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [6] Nam-Viet, the first Vietnamese restaurant to open in Clarendon, seen in December 2021. By early 1975, two Vietnamese grocery stores had been opened in Clarendon, and in ensuing years Clarendon came to be known as "Little Saigon ...
The statue honors someone born in Vietnam in 1228. On Jan. 14, 2018, a statue of Gen. Tran Hung Dao was unveiled at the Ben Thanh Plaza in Arlington, honoring a Vietnamese military hero considered ...
The largest Asian group are Indians, who are at least 110,000 in number as per the 2010 US Census reports, [citation needed] and at least 1.2% of the state's population. . Chinese, Koreans, and Vietnamese make up at least 0.5% of the state's population, with Koreans making up about a percent and having a history of being the largest East Asian g
Vietnamese-Americans immigrated to the United States in different waves. The first wave of Vietnamese from just before or after the Fall of Saigon/the last day of the Vietnam War, April 30, 1975. They consisted of mostly educated, white collar public servants, senior military officers, and upper and middle class Vietnamese and their families.
Asian Americans started to become a significant part of the Washington metropolitan area in the late twentieth century.. Fairfax County, Virginia, Montgomery County, Maryland, and Arlington, Virginia are the largest jurisdictions with high concentrations of Asian Americans in the region:
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