New Harris Teeter in Old Town Alexandria?
March 13th, 2011 Categories: Alexandria, Old Town, Real Estate News
Rumor has it that negotiations are underway for a new Harris Teeter in Old Town Alexandria.
An old, long abandoned warehouse at the corner of St. Aspah and Madison (and directly across from our favorite Royal Restaurant) is the supposed site.
This would put three grocery chains within six blocks of each other – Trader Joe’s, Harris Teeter and Giant.
Earlier, now abandoned, plans called for a location on North Henry that would have served the Parker Gray and Braddock neighborhoods.
According to the Parker Gray Growl, the new location is “in an area that at present has no greater density than the Braddock neighborhood and which already has two operating and competing grocery stores.
This seems to demolish the City’s contradictory defenses that retail is difficult to attract here due to competition from King Street and Potomac Yard or that that only ever high-density development can bring enough residents to support retail.”
It will be interesting to see what happens.
Michael
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