Alban Caterpillar Building New Facility In Waldorf

Alban Caterpillar is building a new facility in the Acton Industrial Park off of Acton Lane in Waldorf near Chaney Enterprises. The space will hold their equipment repair garages, parts department, rental, and sales offices.  They are currently located in Upper Marlboro. The building should be complete in the Fall of 2018.


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Waldorf Station First Concept

Here we have our first look at the concept plans for the Waldorf Station mixed use project.  This is the property that was formerly the Waldorf hotel and restaurant, The Chaney building, and Embassy dairy.

This first plan below shows the retail and office areas of the project.  On the top left is part of the residential apartment area.  It also shows the planned extension of Western Parkway making its way out to Route 301.  Overall the proposed plan will have 226,600 sf of retail, 226,500 sf of office, 689 apartment units, and 100 town houses.  It will extend across Route 301 and fill in the area between Mattawoman Beantown Road (Rt 5) and Sub-Station Road which will be mostly apartments and the town houses with some office.  Greenberg Gibbons has a coming soon date of Spring 2019. No tenants have been announced yet.  These plans are subject to change.  This is a long term project that will take years to finish.

West side of Waldorf Station

South entrance retail shops

North entrance retail and office with proposed grocery store

Overall plan East and West sides of project.

Grille No. 13 Is On The Move

Grille 13 will be moving to the former Mimi's Cafe in the Waldorf Marketplace.  Work is underway to move their liquor license to the new address.  This space will more than double their current location giving them lots of room to grow.  No word yet on when they will open.  Renovations have just begun.

New Domino's Pizza Coming to Waldorf

A new Domino's Pizza will be opening in the Waldorf Plaza at 2215 Crain Highway. It will be a new concept store featuring seating areas instead of the normal pick up and go. Coming later this summer.

The Waldorf Urban Redevelopment Corridor

You may have heard a little about redeveloping some of Waldorf into a more walkable area when light rail ever comes here if it ever does.  We keep hearing it will be here in 15 years or so.  Whenever it does come the county has created a concept plan for the land along where it will it will make a couple of the proposed stops.

So here is the concept for Downtown Waldorf.  Apartments, hotels, office, retail and a civic center.  Just so you can get your bearings the top is Route 301 and Leonardtown Road (Business Rt. 5) runs along the left side of the picture.  The current CSX rail and the light rail would run parallel to each other thru the county as shown at the bottom.

However none of this is going to happen until there are some major upgrades done to the infrastructure in the area.  Water and sewer upgrades, getting all the power lines run under ground, road improvements, etc.  The design for those should be complete in October.

Please understand that this is only a concept and is not going to be built by the county.  The current land owners can build what they want as long as it complies with the new zoning for the area.  Some things that are now not permitted to be built in the area are automotive related businesses, fast food, gas stations and mini storage.  We will see how this turns out over time.  It will take someone with a lot of time and money to develop the land and turn it into something nice.

UPDATE 8-3-16:  According to this article: http://www.thebaynet.com/articles/0716/plans-to-revitalize-town-threatened-by-recent-decision.html

Some of the commissioners decided to throw in a change to the recent comprehensive plan about how many of each type of residence would be allowed in the county in the future.  This would change the concept a lot since much of the plan was based on apartments and town homes.  It makes no sense to create a proposal for future transit oriented development and then destroy that with this recent change.  We will have to see how this plays out.

Bonchon coming to Waldorf Marketplace

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BonChon is a South Korean fried chicken restaurant.  BonChon means "My Hometown".  This will be the fifth location in Maryland.  Bonchon will take over the former California tortilla space at Waldorf Marketplace.  No opening date has been set.

UPDATE: Looking at a mid July opening pending inspections.

Now Open

New Medical Care Center Opening Soon

Righttime Medical Care has taken over the former Red Hot and Blue location at 3350 Crain Highway.  They are an urgent care facility that is open from 7 am to midnight 365 days a year.  Righttime has been in business for 25 years and serves children and adults.  They plan to open early spring 2016. 

Mid Atlantic Seafood Coming to Waldorf

I just sold the former Hong Kong Buffet next to Moms Organic.  The buyer is planning a Mid Atlantic Seafood restaurant.  The place has already been totally gutted and new construction has started.  This owner has several restaurants in the Maryland area.  If you have been around the area for a while you will remember this building as the old Western Steer restaurant.  Look for an opening in the summer.

Recovery Centers of America Coming to Waldorf

Recovery Centers of American has purchased the former 20 acre Changing Point South building at 11100 Billingsley Rd. Waldorf, MD.  Plans are to put $25 Million dollars into renovating and add buildings to the facility up to around 90,000 sf.  They have purchased several properties on the east coast to build localized, innovative alcohol and drug-addiction facilities which will offer a comprehensive continuum of treatment programs.  They plan to open this summer 2016.  Picture below is of the building many years ago.  Since then its fallen into some disrepair and has been used for churches and homeless shelters.  In my opinion they should have bought land and built a new facility.  I'm glad someone is finally going to do something with this property but refitting a dated building is a pain.  Too many new code requirements to deal with.

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UPDATE: 5-6-16 RCA is still working on permits to get existing buildings renovated.  Site needs to comply with newer codes and regulations so it it taking longer.  No word on an opening date yet.

Proposed Walmart Supercenter for Waldorf

UPDATE 7-21-16 The Walmart plan has been killed. It is not happening.  

Here are a few of the concept pics for the new super center that is planned.  Walmart and the property owners are still in with the board of appeals on this project going back and forth with changes to design and impacts to surrounding homes, etc.  Even how the building would effect home values.  As you can see they want them to put fake windows on the back of the building to make it look less ugly.  This may be one of the fanciest Wal-Marts ever built.  If it gets built.

UPDATE: Ive added a pic of the area where this will go:

First Two Tenants for Crain Highway Retail Center

The first two leases have been signed for the new 2875 Crain Highway Retail Center that was formerly American Hardware in Waldorf.  Smoothie King and 9 Round Kickboxing will move in next year once renovations are complete.  I have another great tenant in the lease process and will announce once its complete.  We still have room for more tenants and end cap space is available. 

LA Fitness Waldorf Update

LA Fitness will have its grand opening on January 1, 2016.  A preview center has opened by the Men's Warehouse.  Reports have come in that they will not have a basketball court like was previously told to us.  There will be a pool.

UPDATE:  Opening will occur either 12/18/15 or 12/21/15 due to inspections.
UPDATE: LA Fitness is now open.

New Businesses at Waldorf Marketplace

Fusion Dental and Navy Federal Credit have both opened this month at Waldorf Marketplace.  There is another lease pending so I will update as I get information.

Lets clear up some misinformation

OK I have received numerous emails and comments about this one property so I want to get this cleared up.  There is a  property at the corner of Billingsley road and St. Charles parkway that is zoned for commercial.  One of the home builders made a claim that there was a 500,000 square foot retail complex coming to the corner and Harris Teeter was a tenant.  That is totally false.
Harris Teeter did their research and they do not like the demographics of the area.  So as of now they have no plan to come to the area.  Many of the tenants like Trader Joes, Wegmans & Whole Foods want high population along with higher household incomes.  We do meet the income requirements but they fail to see that even though we are a smaller population we eat and shop like crazy people.
We are second in the state for food and beverage sales only being beat out by Anne Arundel county by a few thousand dollars.  No matter what you put in front of some of these retailers they still go by their charts and calculations and go with what that says.  Some would have to put a lot of infrastructure in place to make it work as well like distribution centers so the cost may outweigh the profit.  We do our best, we cant get them all.  But we try.

St. Charles Towne Plaza To Be Renovated

As I had stated before The St. Charles Towne Plaza will be getting renovated.  They have now announced the construction will begin March of 2015 and finish up in November.  We have placed some new tenants in the plaza like PC Retro Computers and Isle of Vape.  St. Charles Pharmacy will open next month and Ashley Furniture will open April 2015 once its storefront is built next to K&G Menswear.  Panda Express has recently opened their freestanding building next to Burger King.  This was a much needed renovation.  Hopefully it will be worth the wait.

New nursing home and assisted living for St. Charles area

Currently being built near the corner of Billingsley Road and St. Charles Parkway is the Waldorf Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. When completed it will hold a 67 bed rehabilitation facility and later in the second phase a 90 bed assisted living facility. Projected opening of the first phase is spring of 2015. We have 2+ acre lots available around this project for office and retail use.

UPDATE 3/17/2015 The center is called Restore Health Rehabilitation Center and can help anyone from 18 +  Some plans have changed on the nursing home side and plans are on hold for now.

All American Steakhouse Now Open

Now open in the former Bennigan's location off St. Patrick's drive. 

More tenants coming to Shops at Waldorf

Some shifting of tenants and new ones coming soon to the Shops at Waldorf.  Party City is moving to the other end of the building they are currently in for a little more exposure.  They will also take more space.  MyEyeDr is moving in next to Panera and ATI Physical Therapy is taking over the former Jennifer furniture space near Modell's.  More tenants coming soon.

Peruvian chicken restaurants on the way

One of the new things we have got calls for is Peruvian chicken locations.  We now have two coming soon.  Waku chicken will be going into the Pinefield south shopping center in place of Yums Buffet.  The second called Chicken Rico will occupy the former Einsteins Bagels in Waldorf Shoppers world.  Einsteins is relocating to the Brandywine Crossing Shopping Center in Phase 2 that is under construction now.  Always good to have new and different choices in dining.

Now Open

Roy Rogers is now open in Waldorf, MD at 2732 Crain Highway.

 

Car Max is now open at Brandywine Crossing Shopping enter on Crain Highway

7700 Matapeake Business Drive, Brandywine, MD

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