This is excellent news. This Safeway is within a ten minute walk of two metro stations and is right off of Wisconsin Avenue. This is exactly where new residential units should be built. This will make Tenley a more exciting location, a good contrast to the vacant lots, mattress stores, and fast-food restaurants that characterize much of the neighborhood now. With this, the American U. proposal to relocate the law school to Tenley Circle, the Dept. of Homeland Security campus modernization, and the Giant (Cathedral Commons) development further south on Wisconsin Avenue, this corridor is going to see some significant changes over the next couple of years.
Safeway plots mixed-use development in Tenleytown
By Jonathan O'Connell
May 15, 2011
Washington Post
"Safeway, one of the area’s top grocers, has updated its stores and solidified its presence in the region by playing the role of co-developer in mixed-use projects.
Now the Pleasanton, Calif.-based chain has its sights set on its next project, in Tenleytown, where the chain owns a 34,000-square-foot store off of Wisconsin Avenue NW and is considering a mixed-use project featuring a larger, 58,000-square-foot store, with some 150 apartments on top and 10 to 15 new town homes.
Tenleytown could become the third in a string of redevelopment projects Safeway has begun in order to expand and update its stores and leverage its Washington-area real estate holdings..."
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