CVS says their new pharmacy in Target will open on April 4, 2017 - five days earlier than Target's announced opening date for the Bethesda store. That suggests the Target may open prior to the announced date of April 9. This is the first CVS store to close in Bethesda history, by my recollection. The Arlington Road CVS ceased to offer its trademark 24-hour pharmacy counter in December 2015, after being hit hard by Montgomery County Councilmember Hans Riemer's "nighttime economy" disaster that shuttered late night businesses all over Bethesda.
So you won't have to do anything, if the current store is your CVS location. Parking to pick up your prescriptions at the new Target CVS location? Well, that's another story - you're on your own to face that nightmare. Fortunately, several other CVS stores remain, including Arlington Road, a second one up Wisconsin at Cheltenham Drive, and on Sangamore Road in the Shops at Sumner Place shopping center.
Meanwhile, it's hard not to notice that the ground floor retail in the Adagio is beginning to struggle. There's already vacant space there, and now another large tenant is departing with the CVS move.
HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANS!
ReplyDeleteTrader Joe's should move over there. Much more store space. They can use the other vacant retail space there for storage.
ReplyDeleteWait a second-- Hans Riemer's nighttime economy initiative might not have been successful, but how did it lead to "shuttered late night businesses all over Bethesda"? Specifics, please.
ReplyDelete8:13: 9 (possibly 10 if the closure of Quincy's becomes official) bars closed since Riemer got started. 1 of the only 2 24-hour restaurants in Bethesda closed. Downtown businesses cut back late night hours, including Barnes & Noble and Nando's. Late night food trucks disappeared altogether. And CVS ended overnight pharmacy hours. Very specific.
ReplyDeleteWait? That's news. Quincy's is closing? Poor Arnie. Two time loser. Couldn't be happier.
DeleteMORIBUND!
ReplyDeleteDyer, how many "night spots" were there in 2011, and how many are there now? Turnover is normal in the bar/restaurant business - many if not most fail within two years. Just counting the number of individual businesses that have come and gone is a meaningless statistic.
ReplyDeleteThe Tysons Corner Barnes & Noble also cut back on their evening hours, and the B&N stores in Georgetown, downtown and Union Station closed down completely, leaving none in the District. Does this mean that NoVa and DC are "moribund", too?
ReplyDelete9:09 AM I don't think the B&N in the mall is analogous to Bethesda Row.
ReplyDelete9:03: Not meaningless. Many of these nightspots had previously been replaced with other nightclub concepts. The difference this time was that many of them were shuttered for good, and have been - or will be - replaced by retail or daytime restaurants. That was a seismic shift caused by Riemer's debacle and votes on anti-business laws and taxes that devastated bars and restaurants.
ReplyDeleteMaybe Walgreen's can move into the old CVS spot now. The CVS was only there because Walgreen's was interested in that spot. CVS sucks.
ReplyDelete"The difference this time was that many of them were shuttered for good, and have been - or will be - replaced by retail or daytime restaurants."
ReplyDeleteSo what is the number?
Apparently, Bethesda Magazine's Steve Hull just said "oh, fuck it", and lifted this story directly from here without sourcing Robert Dyer.
ReplyDeleteI guess Steve and his interns are not even pretending to be playing journalist at this point.
This blog has devolved into fiction and instability.
ReplyDeleteIt used to have promise.
Pity. New aesthetic. Things change. Life goes on.
7:46: I was the first to report the closure of this CVS - my story was later knocked off without attribution by the small and slightly-failing magazine. They had the wrong closing date, which would be the only thing qualifying as "fiction" - maybe you should be posting critical comments on their article blasting them for the failure to attribute, and failure to get the closing date correct.
ReplyDeleteNah. Happy posting my critical comments here where they're needed most.
ReplyDeleteHappy St Pats day to you!
7:56: Needed more than on a site that plagiarizes and publishes fake news? Not likely, Bozo.
DeleteSo do you have a NET number for night spots that Hans Riemer allegedly destroyed?
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