Each of the four sites slated to receive Walmarts has a long and convoluted history—which makes sense, considering the retailer was able to swoop in and grab them after other plans fell through. The 801 New Jersey Avenue location, however, is more interesting than most, involving what amounts to a two-decade-old community benefits agreement with [...]
Jonathan O'Connell reports this morning that Lowe Enterprises, which brought the Sexy Safeway to Mount Vernon Square along with an almost sold-out condo and apartment complex, is hoping to do the same with the long-neglected Stinky Safeway at 3830 Georgia Avenue. If it's as well-designed as CityVista, the planned 210 housing units and new [...]
It's the answer to your wildest dreams, Foggy Bottomers: Bisnow is reporting that Boston Properties, which has been cagey about its big new grocery store tenant for months now, has signed Whole Foods to occupy 38,000 square feet of The Avenue on Washington Circle. That will make four in the District proper, plus one just [...]
Safeway, it's fair to say, has taken the grocery store grand opening to a whole new level. The rollout of Georgetown's Social Safeway involved "non-transferrable" invitations months in advance, hard hat tours for local figures, and of course, the star-studded gala last week that saw the socialite class walking through the aisles in ballgowns. It's [...]
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...Or as an alternative albeit too lengthy headline, I could have written "New Whole Foods to Create Upper Northwest Whole Foods Triumvirate."
Check that out above: Whole Foods is adding its third location on Wisconsin Avenue, and its third in the same little Bethesda/upper Northwest area. The central one, [...]
