The eagerly-awaited 4th Quarter 2017 opening of Dean & DeLuca on Bethesda Avenue won't happen after all, according to a spokesperson for the store's landlord, JBG Smith. A lack of construction activity inside the two-level retail building, part of JBG Smith's future 4747 Bethesda Avenue office/retail project, has raised eyebrows among commercial real estate observers in recent months. JBG Smith has now confirmed no construction is taking place inside the Dean & DeLuca space.
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| Construction of the office tower at 4747 Bethesda Avenue is underway |
D&D would be wise to open here. Although, where will people conveniently park? Yes, there are lots all around. But especially for gettin groceries, you want parking right there in the building at least.
ReplyDeleteTrader Joe's, Harris teeter, Giant, Safeway (twice)- I'd be surprised if D&D every opens there. At least at present, the location is a bit of a dead zone if the goal is to have a large number of customers walk there.
ReplyDeleteBethesda is getting older and I'm not seeing a demographic that will see the value of a D&D over Harris Teeter.
Harris Teeter is the same as Giant or Safeway.
ReplyDeleteAny updates on the work going on at Pizza Di Marco this morning? I was unable to gather what exactly was going on.
ReplyDeleteThe Teet is much preferred by millennials. I think I'm in 5:13AM's camp. Not seeing the demographic either.
ReplyDeleteBethesda Row is going the way of White Flint and Montgomery Mall.
ReplyDeleteHave we reached the out of control development tipping point? Now Bethesda will be a sea of empty condos, empty storefronts, and half finished construction projects.
ReplyDeleteNo, they're all full. Wrong.
Delete5:31: Work as in repairs/construction/utilities?
ReplyDeleteIt looked like there was repairs being done, but not necessarily on the restaurant. They had a big tube that they were pumping something in or out of the restaurant.
ReplyDeleteThat’s a shame. Hopefully this doesn’t delay improvements to the “park” area.
ReplyDelete6:22: It looked to me like the grease interceptor was being emptied.
ReplyDeleteno mention of water main breakage today on Woodmont Triangle?
ReplyDelete7:27 AM translates as:
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7:47 AM but...but...but
ReplyDeleteYou know if you called them, they'd probably tell you what it is that's going on.
ReplyDeleteJust a thought.
Meanwhile, I'll vote for cleaning the grease trap.
Good scoop and article.
ReplyDeleteMore of this please and less of the Riemer/"cartel" bashing.
Is Dean & DeLuca like Balducci's? They seem to be doing well.
ReplyDeleteI’m guessing if you took away the surface lot parking for Balducci’s and replaced it with underground garage parking across the street, they wouldn’t do so well. Their demographic likes their surface parking lots.
Delete8:12: That's a pretty common occurrence at restaurants. But not a particularly compelling news story compared to 3 big ones I've posted this morning.
ReplyDeleteMultiple Xbox One S reports though are definitely compelling news stories for your hyperlocal bethesda demographic!
Delete"Bethesda is getting older and I'm not seeing a demographic that will see the value of a D&D over Harris Teeter."
ReplyDeleteIf there is one urban area that has an even older high-income demographic than Bethesda it's Georgetown, and they have a D&D.
How is Harris Teeter better than the Safeway or Giant? It's great for folks in the Woodmont Triangle, on Battery Lane, etc. to have a grocery store, but is it actually better than Safeway?
ReplyDeleteAs 9:06 mentioned as well, I find the Safeway rarely has any employees around, especially cashiers. Harris Teeter is really easy to get help from anyone and customer service. Tons of employees in the store.
DeleteThe Safeway on Old Georgetown Road seems to have no more than two cashiers, even at peak periods, and has no self-checkout.
ReplyDelete9:06: That is basically every Safeway. At least they have self-checkout at Arlington Road (although it is worse than the Giant self-checkouts). The Washington Post has recently been utilized by Jeff Bezos to go after Safeway (an Amazon.com grocery competitor), and they tried to say Safeway was discriminating against black people in the District by having only one or two checkouts operating. LOL - That's every damn Safeway, even in 20814 and 20816! Sorry, Jeff.
ReplyDelete“The Washington Post has recently been utilized by Jeff Bezos to go after Safeway”
DeleteMore of the usual conspiracy theories from Mr. Dyer.
Council member Gray is the one who went after Safeway. You really think Jeff Bezos is worried about grocery store wait times in Ward 7? We should be so fortunate!
9:09 AM Dyer likely has a younger audience that the local legacy media.
ReplyDeleteLet's be real, neither has the younger audience.
ReplyDeleteAs far as Harris Teeter being favored? I have no idea why. But that's all I hear. "I'm stopping at the Teet, need anything?" "If you go to the Teet, they have that brand." Asking why they go there usually gets a shrug. Probably the age-old just trying to be different from their parents.
There may be a cross section in the demographic of HT shoppers and internet savvy users who would comment on a hyper local blog that may be excluding some Safeway or Giant shoppers.
DeleteI cannot buy produce at Safeway or Giant. Particularly the much beloved Giant at Westbard. It's pitiful. The Teet has lovely produce. And don't even get me started on seafood at either Safeway of Giant. I"ll take the extra drive to underground parking lot at The Teet over the sloped, tiny parking spaces surface lot at Westbard any day.
ReplyDelete@11:16 I find the produce at Giant (Arlington Road and Westbard) is fine. It's Safeway where I always strike out, especially the one on Sangaamore.
ReplyDelete"he Washington Post has recently been utilized by Jeff Bezos to go after Safeway (an Amazon.com grocery competitor), and they tried to say Safeway was discriminating against black people in the District by having only one or two checkouts operating."
ReplyDeleteRobert Dyer's capacity to turn the slightest issue into an insane conspiracy theory never ceases to amaze.
I concur.
Delete5:07: You're denying that Amazon/Whole Foods is a direct competitor of Safeway? You're also denying that the Post, owned by the owner of Amazon/Whole Foods, made claims about one Safeway store without fact-checking to find the same issues are present in Safeways in white neighborhoods, too?
ReplyDeleteNo one is taking you seriously right now, old sport.
Glad to see Bethesda Beat credited you with the Dean and Deluca post....The new timeline for the store’s opening was first reported by local blogger Robert Dyer.
ReplyDelete7:27: They did, but did not hyperlink to the story, as required by Journalism 101. The citation should also have been closer to the top of the story, as it is entirely based on the 10 days of reporting I did to get this scoop. There was no press release. It's my story and my work, being appropriated in a matter of minutes, without full citation. That's veering into plagiarism.
ReplyDelete"did not hyperlink to the story, as required by Journalism 101"
ReplyDeleteYou have been guilty of this countless times. Then you ignore or delete comments asking for links to source material.
Dyer, if Bethesda Beat is profiting off of your work and constantly plagiarizing like you attest, why don't you just sue them?
ReplyDeleteI just read the Bethesda Magazine version of Robert's scoop.
ReplyDeleteThe way the first graphs are written, you'd think Bethesda Magazine received a press release or notice about the store delay and Dyer happened to have reported it first.
Let's be clear: Robert Dyer didn't just report it first, he worked the story with sources over a period of time as he says above. There was no sign or other notice.
And, no link to Robert's original report?
Sour grapes, totally childish and bad journalism. This is the web- it is standard practice to link back.
2:03 PM Agreed! I wonder why no link back to the source material?
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ReplyDelete"Boyce Bowles" comment might have at least a speck of authority if it wasn't written by a fictional character, who has no knowledge of journalism, or any inside knowledge of how the other site is run. He also seems to know a lot about how Dyer worked with his sources. Peculiar.
^^^that was me.
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