Hello October! The leaves are changing, the Halloween decorations and Christmas decorations start to clash in the stores. Screaming ghosts and Christmas songs across the isle from each other. Its a great time! I myself enjoy the kid friendly version of Halloween. I was never a fan of the blood and gore and jump scare decor. Hey that rhymes! Anyway Its fun to take the kids to a busy neighborhood and trick or treat or trunk or treat at a local church. Everyone in my neighborhood grew up and moved away so we go where the action is. Don't know how much longer the kids will want go out so I'm enjoying it while it lasts. I remember the Halloween parties at school where each kid brought a treat from home and dumped it on your paper plate and then we just got high on sugar and were sent home. Good times. I hope everyone has a safe Halloween this year and get lots of good stuff. But not those plastic witch fingers. I hate those.
Bad Axe Throwing Waldorf will have its grand opening on Saturday October 8th at the Waldorf Town Plaza. 1140A Smallwood Drive.
Aldi and Starbucks are your first tenants for the Pax River Village Center. This is what's taking over the current Millison Plaza. They hope to open late 2024.
The Farmhouse Cafe and Creperie will open in La Plata on October 11th at 5695 Washington Avenue.
Alpas Wellness Center had its open house today at 1014 Washington Avenue in La Plata. Alpas is a treatment center for behavioral health, substance abuse and other disorders. They will offer in and outpatient services and use traditional as well as alternative holistic approaches to mind and body healing. They plan to start taking patients by the end of the year. Pictures are on our facebook page.
At the corner of Billingsley Road and St. Charles Parkway will be a new shopping center called Fairway Village. The anchor tenant will be a state of the art 63,000 sf Weis Market store like none we have seen in the county. Its on point with the look of any high end grocery store and not a rebranded food lion like what we have currently in the area. Along with Weis there will be several pad sites for restaurants and retail. None that I can mention yet because they are still in negotiations. There will also be apartments on the site as well.
I had added this on my Facebook page a while ago but didn't add it here so here you go. Current construction in Pinefield on route 5 / Mattawoman Beantown Road. Proposed royal farms and small 9,300 sf retail strip. The remaining land is planned for 225 town homes, 300 apartments and assisted living facilities. This is all part of the Waldorf Station project. The rest of the main retail center near sonic will be built later as the western parkway expansion is completed. Bryans Road is getting an AutoZone near the corner of 210 and Marshall Hall Road at the Bryans Road Shopping Center. Bids are out for construction.
Berry Pointe is a new 82 acre mixed use business park on Route 228 it will be mostly comprised of warehouse flex space. There may be a small amount of retail and a few pad sites but the plans keep getting modified. This is a large project that will be built as the demand is made. This is being built on land that has been zoned business park for years so it isn't something that was not already in the counties master plans. There is currently no inventory of available warehouse flex space so this will be a great addition to the area for local trade businesses, etc.
Chipotle in Charlotte Hall has changed their opening date to early December. 30030 Three Notch Road.
ReplyDeleteHi Chris any idea on the retail development on St. Charles between Glen Eagles and Giants at La Plata.
Hello Chris, Heard maybe a rumor that at the corner of St. Charles Parkway and Billingsley Rd. which a few years ago th,ere was a sign about a shopping center on that corner, sign went away but heard yesterday that a shopping center with a very fancy high end grocery store was going to be built. Going to be fancy Weiss Market, comparable to Wegmans, that there are several of these stores in Pennsylvania. What do you know about this.
ReplyDeleteYes its described above. I was the one that put it out. Follow our Shasho commercial facebook page.
ReplyDeleteOpps, Guess I should have read your whole October update.
ReplyDeleteHi! Just wondering what’s being built on MatBea Rd across from the entrance to Pinefield neighborhood?
ReplyDeleteI wonder how the building in Pinefield, Mattawoman/Beantown Rd is going to AFFECT TRAFFIC, CRIME RATES & PROPERTY VALUES OF HOMES. USUALLY townhomes and apartments renting CAN affect neighborhoods in an UNDESIRABLE WAY. I PRAY THAT I AM WRONG.
DeleteYeah, because it's not already, "undesirable"...
DeleteChris that's great news about a high-end version of the Weiss grocery store. Please let us know when you have a completion date for the store.
ReplyDeleteHi Chris, is there a reason why we can’t get a Wegmans?
ReplyDeleteThis was posted on Chris’ Facebook page regarding Wegmans
DeleteEvery time someone asks please refer them to this post. I'm trying to educate instead of watching rumors fly. This is what they require:
Population Density: "High number of residents surrounding the potential store. Typical drivetime to store 20 minutes or less."
Charles County population estimate 2022: 170,000
Prince Georges population estimate 2022: 946,971
Workforce: "The store hires somewhere in the area of 500 people.
We operate a high-volume, low-price business; we require a lot of customers shopping in our stores to achieve the volume needed to be successful."
Daytime Population: Wegmans has food bars and caters to lunchtime crowds. Approx. 60% of Charles county workforce leaves the area for work pre covid. Our current restaurants are not busy enough or staffed well enough. Just because people work from home now does not mean it will stay that way forever.
Store Size: "Typical Wegmans is 80,00 to 120,000 square feet and requires 15+ Acres." They also only open 2-3 stores a year. They are very picky.
These stores decide where they want to go. Not us, not the county or the commissioners. This is not build it and they will come. You can ask them to come until you are blue in the face. Give them all the marketing material. They do their own calculations and research and make their own decisions.
The same goes with Whole foods and Trader joes but they also require:
-household income in excess of $100,000
-200,000 people within a 20 minute drive
-Distribution centers closer to the new stores.
-They also would love a major university or large medical complex close by.
-Large number of college educated residents.
Hi Chris do you know what they are building in front of the GlenEagles entrance It’s a brick building.
ReplyDeleteChris!!!!! What the heck is this St John’s project?!? Are you kidding me ?? Where is EIGHTY TWO acres at that already busy overcrowded intersection ?! There’s plenty of available land further down 228. And what exactly does Waldorf need — besides the high end grocery and food places that we are not ever getting?
ReplyDelete“Berry Pointe is positioned along Berry Road (MD Route 228) near Crain Highway (US Route 301). Upon completion, the project is expected to support more than 2,100 jobs. St. John Properties intends to speculatively develop 12 buildings totaling more than 550,000 square feet of the company’s signature flex/R&D space, and approximately 60,000 square feet of single-story commercial office. Approximately 70,000 square feet of retail space will also be built to provide convenient amenities for tenants and employees of the business park, as well as the surrounding community. The retail component will consist of two in-line buildings and five pad sites.”
I just posted the st johns project. This is nowhere near the center of Waldorf.
ReplyDeleteThe New Shoppers warehouse in Charlotte Hall is very clean and well stocked. However, the prices are MUCH higher than the Food Lion just down the road. We would hate to see it close due to lack of sales plus the area needs the competition and other vendors to supply the area. Can anything be done to keep this from happening?
ReplyDeleteIMHO, there’s not much they can do except wait for the market forces to put them out of business. I think somebody seriously misread the market when they decided to put a “budget” supermarket, which ironically is not budget at all. I have never seen more than a dozen cars in the parking lot, some of which undoubtedly belong to employees. By contrast, another former McKays, Bradford‘s Neighborhood Market on Hollywood Road gauged the market correctly, and the place is packed!
DeleteThe diagram of the Pinefield project is hard to figure out. What road will the Royal Farms face?
ReplyDeleteIt will face mattawoman beantown road.
ReplyDeleteLetting you know that the Aldi/Starbucks locating to Millison Plaza is the large parking lot to the left of what you have highlighted. Currently there is a Big Lots in there along with a restaurant, nail salon and tire shop. https://thebaynet.com/concept-plan-approved-for-proposed-pax-river-village-center-aldi-starbucks-and-more/
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