The opening of the new Wegmans grocery store at B.F. Saul's Twinbrook Quarter development on Rockville Pike at Halpine Road won't take place until sometime next year. But The Milton apartments upstairs in the development's Phase 1 building are now expected to welcome their first residents this fall. The leasing office is now open, and a website for The Milton is now active. Construction workers are finishing the upper level residential interiors, and completing punch lists of required items to meet the requirements for approval by code inspectors from the City of Rockville.
Halpine Road has been resurfaced to eliminate any construction-related scars or damage, with new medians and landscaping. Burial of fiber optic cables will now permit the sidewalks and tree planting to be completed. Speaking of sidewalks, a new multi-use path along Rockville Pike in front of the property is now visible in the photos below. In addition to the new traffic signals at Rockville Pike and newly-created Festival Street, traffic signals will also be installed at the intersection of Halpine and Chapman Avenue. B.F. Saul reports that, despite the recent drought, steady sun and the occasional rain shower have plantings in the central courtyard already growing.
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Now that this development is nearly completion, sadly, its facade resembles the Duball RTC project. As for Wegmans, its now passe. They opened with a bang in Germantown and included a Market Cafe grill, hot and salad bar, and all no longer exist. Just like the Safeway that opened years ago in Twinbrook, on Viers Mill Road. Once the glitz is gone, nothing of value remains.
ReplyDeleteIf it were a Harris Teeter going in I’d agree with you, but Wegmans is certainly an exceptional tenant. See Columbia Maryland as an example. They have always been insanely busy, and they lack the density of Rockville.
Deletenothing wrong with the rtc duball building, it looks much nicer than all the brutalist buildings nearby.
Deletewhat do you mean passe? all grocery stores are widely used in the area,and theres a lot of hype for wegmans in the area. youre just hating for no reason...
When was the last time you visited a Wegman's? Never, often I'd guess. The Germantown location is drastically different from the store that opened there in what they offer, it's been downgraded as I stated. The same occurred, as I mentioned, with the Safeway which eventually closed in Rockville. If the demographics aren't their to fit the market change, less offerings, will come.
DeleteI used to be a regular at the Tenleytown Wegmans until I recently moved to Rockville and it’s still a nice store. You’re relying too much on your germantown experience…which is in a much poorer area than Rockville
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ReplyDeleteIt's a grocery store, restaurants, retail, and housing. There's plenty of value beyond whatever weird fetishizing of Wegmans you previously had.
Now the question is when will phase 2 break ground. Hopefully within a couple of years rather than 5.
ReplyDeleteI am definitely excited for the next phases. All of Rockville Pike should look like Connecticut Avenue (but with bike lanes)
DeleteI am surprised they haven’t buried the light posts next to the Milton
Why Another brick and mortar grocery store
ReplyDeletewhen Safeway, Giant, Harris Teeter, Whole Foods, etc. all struggle to keep up with the stealing, thefts and the financial burden/loss it brings. We don’t need another to add to the list.
Obviously they're not struggling, considering new grocers keep opening up. Of course they all know infinitely more about their own businesses than you do.
DeleteIt looks like something out of Fritz Langs Metropolis, not great but not terrible I guess.
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