The future Lidl grocery store at 7625 Old Georgetown Road at Bethesda Place has sat frozen in time for many months, missing its expected 2024 opening date. Nothing has moved inside the store, but I can report that a sign listing the store's operating hours has just been affixed to a larger sign at the property's public parking garage entrance off Woodmont Avenue.
Those store hours will be 8:00 AM to 9:00 PM, seven days a week. This schedule should not be confused with the garage hours that are posted directly above it - which is pretty darned confusing for drivers simultaneously trying to navigate the entrance and read the signage. Those are pretty limited hours compared to chains like Giant and Safeway, but appear to be consistent with other Lidl locations.
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Robert, this store may never open. Aren't they losing a lot of money on this already?
Secondly and unrelated, can you find out what's going on at the old Brown's Store on Old Georgetown Rd across from NIH? It's now completely fenced off. The building is historic but could be moved. That site looks like it's gonna be developed which would explain why the Call Your Mother fills left.
JAC, my understanding is that the current owner of the Brown's property is going to have some renovation work done on the store interior. The end purpose of that - make it more appealing for prospective tenants? - I do not know. There was a plan floated to allow an addition to the rear of the building many years ago, as you may recall, but it never happened and is not part of this current project.
6:42 - Robert, thanks! It's become a real eyesore. A friend, who is a trained chef, thought about doing something in that store quite a few years ago until, surprise, was told the rent. The owner would do better to move/donate the store building and sell to whomever so that something larger can be built there.
JAC it is possible (and actually decently likely) it never opens. I've spoken to a number of sources who have said Lidl is using the store as an accounting write off since they have found it would be too expensive to operate - hence why there is no mention of the location and never has been on the Lidl website - but that the landlord is adding things like that hours sign to keep up the appearance and pressure to open.
Is Lidil opening ever? What’s the issue?
This location will ultimately not be a grocery store at all, but the first-ever Lidl Bank.
I see what you did there.
There's some kind of hold up. No one is currently working on the store.
Somebody's pocketing something somewhere and thus should be investigated! Have an A-1 DAY!
The Rumor was they were trying to find workers and it became a real slog to get people interested in working there so they gave up by now…………….and that’s why the store sits empty.
I think the rent back then was $8k a month, which seemed high at the time. If you went inside, the floors were all rickety, not sure how much will be allowed to be done on it since it's 'historic'.
We have signed a lease to be the Sub-Tennant for Lidl going in where the Peets Coffee was, we have been completely ghosted by Lidl. The rumor is, nobody will verify: is that it's better for them financially if it sits vacant and take the loss. I am so perplexed as to what is happening here.
12:11: Wow, the plot thickens! Are you going to be a coffee shop?
The whole thing makes little sense. A major, international grocer comes to downtown Bethesda, begins to retrofit the space from the former tenant, also a major grocer, but stops and never opens? Huh?
I'm a regular shopper of Lidl and Aldi, but reluctantly agree that neither are a good fit for Bethesda.
Cinco, correct. Well, that may happen from what it appears.
Well now that the orange man has crashed the economy and destroyed NIH I bet Lidl would be a lot more popular in Bethesda
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