capital plaza's prime location along maryland route 450 and the baltimore-washington parkway made it ideal for shoppers by both automobile and public transit. local bus service to capital plaza operated along annapolis road linking the plaza with shoppers from the nearby neighborhoods of college park, hyattsville, riverdale, rogers heights, edmonston, bladensburg, colmar manor, cottage city, brentwood, mount rainier, villa heights, cheverly, landover hills, landover, new carrollton, lanham, glenarden, and even certain pockets of washington, dc (provided by the old wma transit company, until later becoming the metrobus system). in the late 1970s-1980s, capital plaza even featured a trailways bus station. neighboring shopping featured robert hall men's and kinney shoes, shakey's pizza, and a grand union market (cherry hill shopping center) along annapolis road.