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They rank among Washington's largest and most well known businesses: Giant Food, Hechinger and the Dart Group family of Crown Books and Trak Auto. But the corporate offices of those retailing empires don't carry the area's most prestigious addresses.</br></br>For all of them, home is in Landover, an aging industrial area in central Prince George's County that is carpeted with warehouses, roadways and office parks.</br></br>Originally drawn to the community by its proximity to rail lines and abundance of open space, those corporations in recent years have substantially boosted their investments in the area and provided county officials with a major drawing card in their intensifying search for new corporate headquarters.</br></br>This spring, about 1,000 Giant employees will move into a glistening new $20 million office complex next to their current facility on Sherriff Road.</br></br>Shoppers Food Warehouse, a fast-growing food store chain that is majority-owned by the Dart Group, last summer unpacked into a new headquarters building in nearby Lanham.