August 2022 Updates

Overall I'm not a fan of August.  I have a couple of wonderful birthdays to celebrate during the month but mostly it just means summer is coming to an end and school is starting soon.  Feels like they put the back to school stuff out earlier every year!  Every day feels like Sunday.  Things are moving too fast and I try to dig my heels in and try to stop it from happing but its inevitable. What can you do but try to enjoy every day with your friends and family because at the end of the day that's what is most important.

Since this was mentioned a few times I figured I would post it.  These are the new apartments going up along Route 6 in La Plata.  There will be 37 units with high quality fixtures.  They will be mostly two bedroom units but a few will be one and three bedroom as well ranging from 900 to 1200 sf.

At Fox Run Shopping Center the Burger King is now open and it looks like Tropical Smoothie is the last one yet to open in the new strip center up front.  Open tenants include MOD Pizza, Great Clips, Starbucks, T-Mobile.  Popeye's is finishing up and should be opening early Fall.

Brandywine Village is under construction at the entrance to the Chadds Ford residential development.  So far they have 7-11, Taco Bell, Tropical Smoothie Café and Navy Federal Credit Union signed up.

O'Reilly Auto Parts is taking over the former Rite Aid in Waldorf next to Chick-fil-A. Renovations are under way at 3385 Crain Highway. O'Reilly is new to Maryland so this will be one of the first locations.

IL Gusto Ristorante will open August 22nd in the Rosewick Crossing Shopping Center in La Plata.

230 Rosewick Road.

Chesapeake Doughnut Company has opened in the Westlake Square Shopping Center. 3350 Middletown Road in Waldorf.  This will be their third location.

June 2021 Updates

Happy June! Congratulations to all the 2021 graduates!  The past year has been very difficult to deal with and these kids are making history.  I wish the best for them and everyone going forward. 

I'm going to mention a few things I have announced in the past but have been buried by months of other posts but we have some new things happening in the area as well.

Also I want people to understand some things about new commercial developments.  The county does not build retail centers. The county cant make a business open up here.  These are private companies that put out all the money to make it happen.  When you say things like "They should have fixed that old building over there instead" or "There's vacant space already over there".  Well that's not their property.  Maybe they didn't want to sell it. Maybe they wanted too much for it.  Maybe that building was so out of date it cost more to fix than to build new.  Maybe the land or building was too small.  There are many factors to consider.  What if you wanted to build a new home but everyone told you to go renovate some other one instead?

Waldorf Park is the new, 30,000 square foot shopping center that's going up near the corner of Route 301 North and Smallwood Drive.  It will connect by access road to the Cracker Barrel restaurant, Carrabba's and Hampton Inn.  Construction has started.   Tenants currently signed are Chick-fil-A, Jersey Mikes Subs, Nail Trix Salon and Spa, and a Starbucks with drive thru that I know many people have been waiting for.  This will be a second location for Chick-fil-A and not a relocation.  That should help with the long lines at the current location that can sometimes expand out onto the highway.  Chick-fil-A has a proposed opening of October 2021

New tenant for the Rosewick Crossing Shopping Center in La Plata.  Salsita's Grill will take over the former Spoons BBQ restaurant.  Should open by late summer.

Construction has started on a new three story MedStar Shah medical building in White Plains next to CVS.

Fresenius Kidney Care is now open in Waldorf West behind Silver Diner at 3015 Technology Place.

Charleys Philly Steaks will be coming to the Waldorf Shoppers World behind Chipotle.  

There is a Dollar General being built in Marbury at 224 and Bicknell road. I'm not sure why they chose that spot.  That area is zoned for commercial by right.

Burger King has been added to the list of new tenants for Fox Run Shopping Center in Prince Frederick.  

7 Eleven is now open in White Plains at the corner of Willetts Crossing road and Route 301 North.