to the NMS Healthcare of Hyattsville Nursing Home and the Malta House Assisted Living Facility, both of which are located on property formerly occupied by Carroll Manor Nursing Home. Along Chillum Road in Avondale are a private storage facility for the utility company Washington Gas, a public storage facility, and a large U-Haul rental truck facility. Residents of Avondale live within proximity to two major universities: the Catholic University of America in Washington (six minutes, two miles), and the University of Maryland College Park in College Park (11 minutes, 3.5 miles). The community, being unincorporated, must rely upon the adjacent Maryland neighborhoods of Chillum, Mount Rainier, and Hyattsville for public schools as well as Prince George's County for its government services, such as police and fire protection. In terms of public transportation, residents of Avondale have access to the West Hyattsville and Brookland-CUA Metro Stations, as well as Metrobus and Prince George's County The Bus Service on the Queens Chapel Road and Chillum Road corridors. Commerce The Shops at Queens Chillum The main shopping center serving the Avondale neighborhood is located at the corner of Queens Chapel Road and Chillum Road. This shopping center's primary tenant was a Giant Food Store from 1954 to April 4, 2013. This Giant Food Store was supposedly one of the first Giant Food stores to open in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area. It was even referred to as "A Historic Giant": a reference to the fact that Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip stopped at this Giant in 1957 when returning to the White House after attending a football game with President Eisenhower at the University of Maryland College Park campus. The Giant was the main tenant of the shopping center for roughly six decades. For many years, it had been the only convenient location for many senior citizens and longtime residents of Avondale and Mount Rainier to buy groceries. When it was decided that this Giant would finally close its doors on April 4, 2013, many long-time customers were very unhappy. A Price Rite supermarket has occupied Giant's space since it closed. The long time Fleischer's Jewelers store also closed around the same time as the Giant Food Store around 2013. Mid-Atlantic Seafood, a carryout restaurant, has been operating in Fleischer's space ever since. A Dunkin Donuts store was being constructed in the Queens Chillum shopping center in late 2010 in a very