Saturday, July 9, 2011

Whole Foods in Riverdale by 2014?

The Washington Examiner reports that Whole Foods has agreed to be one of the anchors in the Cafritz property's planned development on Route 1 in Riverdale Park.  The grocery would be located within a 36-acre 'village' of shops, residences and a token 5-acre park on the east side of Route 1 (Baltimore Avenue), opposite where Queens Chapel Road meets the Avenue.  (Map of the Cafritz property) Probably the soonest it could be completed would be the fall of 2014.

It's not a done deal: the residents of University Park are unhappy about the potential for congestion and are resisting.  They had the money and influence to get Queens Chapel Road converted from a public thoroughfare  into their own private closed off boulevard, so they might get this project stopped. We don't need to go into panic-mode about Glut quite yet.

The full Washington Examiner story 

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