Washington D.C. Development News

[vivo]

[QUOTE=StevenW;28758666]Towson or Annapolis doesn't have one? I love the Whole Foods Market! My favorite! [/QUOTE

annapolis has a whole foods.
the affluent 200,000+ pop town in oc i live in has 3 trader joes'. cheaper than whole foods. smaller too for faster shopping.

[Infoman]

http://washington.bizjournals.com/wa...d=lfn&brthrs=1
Walter E. Washington Convention Center will get $8 to $10 million expansion...

http://washington.bizjournals.com/wa...d=lfn&brthrs=1
Washington Adventist Hospital gets OK to relocate...

[adelphi_sky]

Originally Posted by rockin'.baltimorean

columbia has wegmans, which if you ask me is just as good.

Columbia Maryland? The only one I see is in Hunt Valley.

[adelphi_sky]

Originally Posted by Tricia_Lvs_Baltimore

The one in Columbia hasn't opened yet. It's going to open some time in 2009. Here are two stories on it:

http://wjz.com/local/wegmans.food.market.2.427757.html

http://www.wtopnews.com/?sid=1158412&nid=25

Blah! Well, the one in Largo will be closer. Getting a Wegmans is like getting a Cracker Barrel. Speaking of location of course. :-)

[adelphi_sky]

Originally Posted by Dr. Remington

there is a roots market in western columbia (pretty much same as whole foods), a trader joes in eastern columbia, a bloom store just south of columbia, and a couple small, independant natural food stores. once wegmans opens, there may not be room for a whole foods. then again, that area keeps growing...

My wife and I went to roots one time. It's pretty nice. I think there should be more local organic food markets.

[vivo]

I wish there was a phase 2 for the purple line to extend it to the tysons corner stop. maybe when dulles rail to tysons is finalized they'll make plans.

[urbanaturalist]

Yeah, VA and MD definitely need to make it happen.....the bi-state connection should be on Woodrow Wilson Bridge initially, which makes me go when I hear folks say construction on the bridge is almost over, when their is no rail connection (that could potentially be the forebearer of the Purple Line) across the Potomac and close to National Harbor.

[vivo]

Originally Posted by Tricia_Lvs_Baltimore

The one in Columbia hasn't opened yet. It's going to open some time in 2009. Here are two stories on it:

http://wjz.com/local/wegmans.food.market.2.427757.html

http://www.wtopnews.com/?sid=1158412&nid=25

http://howchow.blogspot.com/2008/12/...ll-coming.html

Thursday, December 18, 2008
Wegmans in Columbia: Still Coming
The Tale of Two Cities blog posts about another legal loss by the people trying to stop the Columbia Wegments. The Howard County Board of Appeals dismissed the latest appeal against zoning for the site near Apple Ford on Snowden River Parkway.

Wordbones says Wegmans may be on track for a 2009 or early 2010 opening. Sounds great to me, although I have heard that Wegmans builds slowly because the company is very particular. The Wegmans website already lists store openings through November 2009 and says "TBD" for the Columbia site.

(Update: Check out the anonymous comment about the planned Frederick Wegmans. On the company's Website, that Frederick store is listed above Columbia. I don't know whether the list is in the order that they expect to open, but it can't speed up construction to have so many projects at once. Thanks for the comments.)

[Infoman]

Cool...at least we know that it isn't dead.

[Infoman]

I went up to D.C. for about 30 min's (today/yesterday) to pick something up so I didn't have time to take good pic's but here are some of the good one's....Sorry for the poor quailty!!!








i'll post some more later!!!

[StevenW]

Infoman, have you ever tried to get some pix from the whitehouse lawn?

[rockin'.baltimorean]

Originally Posted by adelphi_sky

Columbia Maryland? The only one I see is in Hunt Valley.

correction, there's plans to put one in columbia. construction to start sometime in '09.....

[Exrexnotex]

I,specially, like the picture with all the blur ... it gives it a ... I don't know ... a little something that I can't describe or figure out ...

[Exrexnotex]

Originally Posted by NorthaBmore

I know, It's my favorite too, which is why i wish we had more. There may be one in Annapolis, I'm not sure, but i live in Towson and we don't have one. I wish they would have put one in when they redid the Towson Town Center, but it probably would have taken up to much space.

There is one, it's at Annapolis Harbour Center. Another one is coming at ATC at Parole.

[StevenW]

Exrexnotex, what is that building in your avatar? Pretty cool.

[DrzBrooklynChulo90]

Originally Posted by StevenW

Exrexnotex, what is that building in your avatar? Pretty cool.

Can I take a guess and say that it's probably one of those twin towers in Philadelphia?If not, it looks extremely similar to it.

[Exrexnotex]

Yeah, I think it's called Commerce Square.

[StevenW]

cool.

[NorthaBmore]

Just a construction update on the huge mixed-use Washington gateway development north of union station. The project is huge and has almost a million square feet of floor space and is set to open in early 2010. The project is moving along great and I think there are three buildings under construction now, each about 3 stories tall.(for anyone who doesn't know, the project is next to the New York AVE./Gallaudet U Metro Station and that's what the construction there is for)
Some renderings (I know they were already posted)

[StevenW]

Very good looking building, there!