Wednesday, September 26, 2012
The community adds its first major retailer in decades.
Aspen Hill welcomed retailer Kohl’s to the neighborhood this week with grand opening sales and a Wednesday morning ribbon-cutting ceremony attended by county officials. Kohl’s will anchor the Northgate Plaza shopping center. Lee Development Group “has invested several million dollars” to renovate the center, the company said in a news release. Northgate Plaza also features a Michael’s craft store and a Rite Aid Pharmacy among its more than 30 tenants. The Lee family built the center, at 3901 Aspen Hill Road, in 1958. The renovation includes expanding the space occupied by Kohl’s from 46,000 square feet to 60,000 square feet. Expanding the space cost about $2.5 million, Washington Business Journal reported. The space had been occupied by …
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Pike Center leases renewed until September 2013.
Construction of a Wal-Mart that was expected to break ground on Rockville Pike later this year has been delayed and tenants of the Pike Center where the store is planned have had their leases extended, a principal with the company developing the project said. It is “difficult to say” how long the delay could last, said Krista Di Iaconi, principal of acquisition and development for JBG Rosenfeld Retail. It could be a year or more, she said. The store originally was scheduled to open in late 2013. Tenants have received short-term lease extensions that will allow businesses time to make relocation plans, Di Iaconi said. Bagel City owner George Kavadoy said that the new lease for his popular shop will expire in September 2013. Though there are…
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Businesses concerned about the store's potential impact.
An 80,000-square-foot Wal-Mart planned for Rockville Pike is stirring mixed and sometimes passionate reactions from Rockville City Council members, residents and shop owners. Construction of the store, at the Pike Center just south of Twinbrook Parkway—and just outside the city limits, would begin as early as fall. The projected completion date is late 2013. Wal-Mart also is proposing an 118,000-square-foot store in Aspen Hill, with a projected opening in 2013. The Rockville Pike store would replace existing Pike Center stores, including Bagel City, Office Depot and CiCi’s Pizza. A T.G.I. Friday’s restaurant, M&T Bank branch and Jared jewelry store would remain. With Wal-Mart planned, Stephanie Kavadoy’s family business, Bagel City, did …
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Berliner: 'We simply must do better' than the proposal for Pike Center.
County Councilman Roger Berliner is vowing to block a Wal-Mart proposed for the Pike Center, saying the store is a bad fit for Rockville Pike. Berliner (D-Dist. 1) of Potomac stated his opposition to the store in a letter sent Monday to Chevy Chase-based JBG Rosenfeld. (The letter can be found in the PDF at the right of this article.) The developer is seeking to build an 80,000-square-foot Wal-Mart at the retail center between Twinbrook Parkway and Randolph Road. JBG reportedly plans to request that the site be rezoned from commercial to mixed-use in 2013 in order to allow 200 to 250 apartments to be built there. “I remain deeply concerned that your proposed development of the site with an 80,000 square foot single story Walmart 1500 feet …
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
The store is the second Wal-Mart proposed near the city's borders in less than a month.
Wal-Mart is proposing an 80,000-square-foot store at the Pike Center on Rockville Pike, The Washington Post reported late Monday. "The Rockville store would replace more than half a dozen shops, including Bagel City, Office Depot and CiCi’s Pizza, whose leases would not be renewed," The Post reported. "A T.G.I. Friday’s restaurant, new M&T Bank branch and Jared jewelry store would remain." Chevy Chase-based JBG Rosenfeld also plans to request that the property, between Twinbrook Parkway and Randolph Road, be rezoned from commercial to mixed-use in 2013 to allow 200 to 250 apartments to be built there, according to reports in The Post and The Gazette. The county has not tried to lure big box stores like Wal-Mart, Steven A. Silverman, …
Jeff Hawkins
2:49 pm on Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Brigitta: Not sure if the Magruder store analogy is good, firstly at the time Magruder's was a vital and central grocery store.........still trying to replace it to this day. Secondly, Magruder's wasn't on a major road already choked with traffic. If truth be known we would never have needed the TC project (and all the money wasted over the years) in the first place if they had just left downtown… more ›