The new Tenleytown
Target store is being stocked with merchandise in Northwest Washington at the intersection of Wisconsin Avenue and River Road N.W. Target has set the opening date for the Tenleytown store for November 10, 2019, ahead of schedule. Shopping carts are already in place. They are still hiring ahead of the opening of the store, which is larger than the one in Bethesda, so you'll be able to save the gas you would spend driving to the big Targets elsewhere in the county.
It’s so odd to see a white Target logo and sign on the exterior of the building. Must be a landlord restriction. I sure hope this one is stocked more frequently than the Bethesda store. It always looks a little bare at the admittedly smaller Bethesda store. I wonder if it will remain open. I also assume the Trader Joe’s will close as well. Maybe a chance to redo that whole building and create a bit more density. The site is zoned for up to 90’, so a much larger building is possible.
ReplyDeleteAs an aside, the nearby Bethesda Market project received Sketch Plan approval yesterday, so lots in store for the South Wisconsin District. Maybe it needs a new district nickname, like SoWi.
If shoppers are going out of their way to shop at a larger Target it would make more sense to drive up Rockville Pike to the huge one in North Bethesda/Rockville. The Tenleytown store won't be much larger than the Bethesda store (about 45K sf vs 35K sf). By comparison, the North Bethesda store is twice the size of both store's combined.
ReplyDeleteWhy not mention that this used to be Best Buy which closed last year? Not even a street number? Not everyone is familiar with the Container Store there.
ReplyDelete"It’s so odd to see a white Target logo and sign on the exterior of the building. Must be a landlord restriction."
ReplyDeleteThat's probably due to the landmark status of the Sears Building. Another thing which Robbie the Carpetbagger didn't mention.
Didn't know that Tenleytown is considered Bethesda.
ReplyDelete7:01: I was shopping at that Sears when you were still living in your hometown elsewhere in America, carpetbagger.
ReplyDelete7:02: Carpetbaggers understandably may not be aware that Bethesda residents - especially in southwest Bethesda - are regular patrons of businesses in Friendship Heights/Tenleytown D.C. Never seen you post a nasty comment when other local media post about something over the D.C. line, which is the dead giveaway that you are a paid troll for the MoCo cartel.
So...why didn't you report on the white-supremacist rally at Maggiano's? in November 2016? That happened only a few hundred feet across the District Line.
ReplyDeleteThe folks blogging from Frederick or the bathroom stall at Lakeforest don't understand that a large swath of Bethesda and Chevy Chase residents are much, much closer to Tenleytown than Rockville Pike.
ReplyDelete7:33AM - Comet Ping Pong.
ReplyDeleteThe design is very toned down from the original renderings. This seems much more tasteful- not as much Target red cladding.
ReplyDeleteHopefully they activate the large corner display window.
Wonder if the Halloween candy from this new Target will be reviewed on a certain youtube channel?
ReplyDeleteI’m sure Robert is preparing a carefully crafted report on how the restoration and enhancement of the Farm Women’s Market is in fact a death nell for Downtown Bethesda, and was planned and executed by the MoCo Cartel. That we were promised both parking lots would be 100% open green spaces. And that the 585 pack-and-stack apartments will be all rented out by VRBO and Air B&B to “out-of-town” transient folks that aren’t lifelong residents.
ReplyDelete"The 585 pack-and-stack apartments will be all rented out by VRBO and Air B&B to 'out-of-town' transient folks that aren’t lifelong residents."
ReplyDeleteActually that should be "stack-and-pack", not "pack-and-stack". And don't forget "Soviet-style" and "cookie-cutter".
9:48PM:
ReplyDeleteGood point! I forgot that Robert took that one course in urban design, so I’m sure he knows the correct professional planning terminology.
"Developers are profit-driven more than market driven."
ReplyDelete-Robert Dyer, April 17, 2019
Nice thing about DC, you can carry a gun.
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