Thursday, May 23, 2013
Drilling begins this week at 8330 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda, where a 359-unit apartment building and Harris Teeter grocery store are building built.
Construction work to build a 359-unit apartment building and Harris Teeter grocery store at the empty lot at 8300 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda, is entering the drilling phase this week. Drilling will last about five to six weeks. Then, blasting will begin, probably in early July, according to an email newsletter from the Bethesda-Chevy Chase Regional Services Center. "Crews must blast through rock to build an underground parking garage," according to the newsletter. "Blasting and excavation is scheduled to begin in early July. According to StonebridgeCarras, the builder, this phase will take about five months," the newsletter added. StonebridgeCarras will send notices out to the surrounding community before blasting begins. The entire project …
Thursday, February 28, 2013
A roundup of the top food headlines this month in Bethesda.
February was a newsy month in the Bethesda food scene. Patch broke the news this month that Harris Teeter has signed a lease to be the grocery tenant at a new mixed-use development at 8300 Wisconsin Ave. The new grocery store is expected to open in 2015. Also this month, we reported that Dunkin' Donuts is closing its Bethesda Avenue location after Bethesda Row management company Federal Realty did not renew their lease, which expires in May. The coffee shop has two new downtown Bethesda locations in the works. There was more news out of Friendship Heights from celebrity chef Bryan Voltaggio, Bethesda favorite Persimmon re-opened with a new look, Aroma Espresso debuted at the Montgomery Mall, and the new Prohibition-style bar and grill …
Thursday, February 7, 2013
Harris Teeter will "elevate the project to its full potential and will be a great addition to the surrounding neighborhood," developers said in a Thursday announcement.
The mixed-use residential development at 8300 Wisconsin Ave. that will bring a Harris Teeter to the Woodmont Triangle is set to open in spring of 2015, developers StonebridgeCarras said Thursday in a press release. Patch broke the news Wednesday that Harris Teeter had finalized a lease with Stonebridge, though developers would not confirm that the North Carolina-based grocery chain was the project's grocery tenant. More details emerged today as Stonebridge confirmed the news in an announcement. Harris Teeter has signed on to a 20-year lease for a 50,000 square-foot store planned as a part of the nine-story, mixed-use residential and commercial building, according to the statement. The project is set to break ground in April. The store, …
MOM's? Whole Foods? Dare we say...Wegman's? With a Harris Teeter and an as-yet-to-be-named market coming in to the Woodmont Triangle, we want to see what you think.
Grocery news is big news in Bethesda, and with a Harris Teeter now signed on at a new mixed-use development at 8300 Wisconsin Ave., we’re turning our attention to another market that’s planned for a new building just a few blocks south. Developers JBG are planning a 444,000 square-foot residential building with 475 units and more than 20,000 square feet of ground-floor retail at 7900 Wisconsin Avenue. The development will stretch from Wisconsin to Woodmont at St. Elmo avenues. The modified development, formerly planned to be the site of the new Bethesda police station, will go before the Montgomery County Planning Board Feb. 14. The building will feature a through-block open space that will pass beneath a portion of the building, with …
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
A Harris Teeter spokeswoman says the grocery chain has signed a lease for a space in the mixed-use development planned for 8300 Wisconsin Ave.
Grocery chain Harris Teeter has finalized a lease for a space in a new mixed-use development project at 8300 Wisconsin Ave., according to a company spokeswoman. Developers StonebridgeCarras are planning a nine-story, mixed-use residential and commercial building at the 1.6-acre site at the corner of Wisconsin Avenue and Battery Lane, formerly the Trillium property. Developers have said the project will include a partially below-grade grocery store with an entrance planned for a plaza at the corner of Battery and Wisconsin avenues, but Stonebridge principal Jane Mahaffie would not confirm that the grocery tenant is Harris Teeter. "StonebridgeCarras is not prepared to announce anything related to 8300 Wisconsin," Mahaffie wrote in an email …
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Is another grocery store needed in Bethesda?
Update, 5:45 p.m.: Responding to a request for comment for this story, Stonebridge principal Douglas Firstenberg told Patch in a voicemail message Wednesday afternoon, "In terms of 8300 Wisconsin, we do have plans for a grocery store at the project but we have not made any public comment on who that might be." Original Post, 10 a.m.: Harris Teeter, rapidly-expanding in the Washington, D.C. metro area, may be opening a large grocery store on Wisconsin Avenue in Bethesda within the next two years. The new 50,000-square-foot grocery store will be at the corner of Wisconsin and Battery Lane, part of the development being mapped by StonebridgeCarras at the site of the former Trillium project. In a recent story, Bethesda Magazine reported that …
Will a 13th grocery store in the Bethesda-Chevy Chase area be welcomed?
Update, 5:45 p.m.: Responding to a request for comment for this story, Stonebridge principal Douglas Firstenberg told Patch in a voicemail message Wednesday afternoon, "In terms of 8300 Wisconsin, we do have plans for a grocery store at the project but we have not made any public comment on who that might be." Original Post, 10 a.m.: Harris Teeter, rapidly-expanding in the DC metro area, plans to open a large grocery store on Wisconsin Avenue in Bethesda within the next two years. The new 50,000-square-foot grocery store will be at the corner of Wisconsin and Battery Lane, part of the development being mapped by StonebridgeCarras. In a recent story, Bethesda Magazine reported that Stonebridge has Harris Teeter lined up as a tenant. However…
Michael Smith
8:32 am on Thursday, February 28, 2013
Cordell Ave also got Smokes BBQ(A great BBQ place) and 4935 Bar and Kitchen in addition to Brickside, both have great food and drinks. more ›