Grocery stores anchor projects in Northwest
Georgetown Current
*Development: Efforts in Shaw, Petworth move forward
By CAROL BUCKLEY
Current Staff Writer
Sept. 1, 2010
Luxe new grocery stores have become the must-have anchor tenant for developments across the city, including at three Northwest sites where new stores are slated to replace old, tired groceries. Developers hope that condo buyers, apartment dwellers and merchants will be drawn to snazzy new stores supplanting aging spots where shoppers complain the produce looks as wilted as the place.
“It’s a necessity; [a grocery store is] the anchor for a community,” said Susan Linsky, project manager of Shaw’s O Street Market redevelopment, which is slated for groundbreaking today.
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When complete, the long-delayed “Citymarket at O Street,” as the project is dubbed, will feature the city’s largest Giant grocery store — 71,000 square feet — as well as a hotel, a restaurant, additional retail and housing. Market-rate condominiums and apartments will mix with affordable housing for seniors on the two-block redevelopment between O, P, 7th and 9th streets NW that includes the historic O Street Market, an 1881 structure that
originally housed a public marketplace. The Giant store now on the property is about half the size of the proposed store…”
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