Just Salad and Inspire Nail Bar are the latest businesses to sign leases for retail space at the Residences at Mazza at 5300 Wisconsin Avenue NW in the Friendship Heights area of Chevy Chase, Washington, D.C. They join Total Wine, Wonder - a food hall (yeah, that ship has sailed, folks), and TJ Maxx at the redeveloped site of the Mazza Gallerie mall. A luxury mall - demolished!
Just Salad is similar to Sweetgreen and CHOPT, but with a more expansive menu that makes it the best of the three for people who don't want "just salad" for lunch. They have dinner plates that look more like restaurant entrees than salads, and promote sustainability with returnable, reusable bowls. A nail bar is, well, a nail salon. The chain has many area locations, and specializes in waxing as well as nail services.
The additions continue the effort to recalibrate Friendship Heights downmarket after the flight of the rich to lower-tax jurisdictions tanked "Montgomery County's Rodeo Drive" of high-end boutiques, malls, and restaurants. So go get that salad, a Potbelly sandwich, and grab a six-pack at Total Wine, and think of the Montgomery County Council. Yee-haw!
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First off, the recently opened Trader Joes/TJ Maxx/Total Wine are all packed regularly- which is exactly what Friendship Heights needs. Mazza Galleria mall was filled with "luxury" stores where absolutely no one shopped at. There was a reason why all these luxury stores went out of business one by one- at Mazza and the Pavillion across the street. This has nothing to do with the Montgomery County business environment...these malls and stores were in DC.
The recalibration to stores that actually create traffic for retailers, Trader Joes/TJ Maxx/Total Wine will ultimately do more to create a vibrant environment for restaurants to survive and thrive in. It is moronic to lament a bygone era for white elephant malls that sat empty, but in the same breath look down on retailers that are clearly serving a need- judging by their traffic. It's ok to stop banging the Montgomery Council drum for 5 minutes...its the holidays, you can give it a rest.
7:11: Jimmy Choo, Ralph Lauren, Barney's, Louis Vuitton, etc. were on the Maryland side at the Collection. Everything along Wisconsin on the MD side that closed was *why* it was called Montgomery County's Rodeo Drive, not DC's Rodeo Drive.
Mazza Gallerie was packed years ago, before the County Council destroyed the neighborhood. Of course the new businesses serve a need - the needs of the newer, less-wealthy residents, which is why they are replacing the old businesses that no longer had the ultra-wealthy demographic to support them.
Looked at the projected County budget deficits through the 2030s? Anyone who does will agree we must NEVER stop "banging the drum" about these feckless failures running our County into the ground.
This is the plan?
https://economiccollapse.report/marylands-push-for-a-25-minimum-wage-would-be-disastrous-if-it-happens/
Democrats live in a surreal world and think a higher minimum wage will live in a vacuum. Not really surprised when people like AOC who has a degree in economics from Boston probably couldn't make change at a cash register considering that was her job as a bartender.
Liberals are dooming MD. All fun and games when spending other people's money, ask Tim Walz.
https://foxbaltimore.com/newsletter-daily/state-audit-shocker-8-billion-spending-little-oversight
7:11: Jimmy Choo, Ralph Lauren, Barney's, Louis Vuitton, etc. were on the Maryland side at the Collection. Everything along Wisconsin on the MD side that closed was *why* it was called Montgomery County's Rodeo Drive, not DC's Rodeo Drive.
>> This was never really a thing. tHose stores closed one by one because there was never a market to support those stores here. The "Rodeo Drive" was a stupid figment of real estate salespeople to try to squeeze a few more dollars out of the buyer.
Mazza Gallerie was packed years ago, before the County Council destroyed the neighborhood. Of course the new businesses serve a need - the needs of the newer, less-wealthy residents, which is why they are replacing the old businesses that no longer had the ultra-wealthy demographic to support them.
>> When? Before the internet? These malls were empty by 2000s. Only stores with any traffic were Filene's Basement and every blue moon the empty movie theater had a blockbuster. Otherwise...it was a ghost town.
The architecture of the new Mazza apartments is terrible. Doesn't live up to its high end luxury lineage!
With the high end shops out, time to focus on retail oriented for transit riders who can't easily drive to a mall.
Speaking of Filene's Basement, I once bought a coat from there and realized that only a contortionist would be able to put it on because the sleeves were sewn in a twisted fashion!
It's cute how republicans pretend to be fiscal conservatives. Your party leaders don't even pretend to care anymore- you guys should really stop. You sound so FOS it's unbelievable. A quick primer:
Republican Presidents (Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, Donald Trump) generally saw substantial increases in the federal deficit during their time in office. George W. Bush's presidency saw an over 1,200% increase, and Donald Trump's a 317% increase.
Democratic Presidents (Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Joe Biden's initial year) generally saw the deficit decrease. President Clinton ended his term with a $128 billion surplus (a 150% decrease from the inherited deficit), and President Obama decreased the deficit by 53%.
Average Annual Deficit: Since 1960, the federal deficit has averaged a higher amount per year under Republican presidents ($131 billion a year) compared to Democratic presidents ($30 billion a year).
Deficit as a Percentage of GDP: Federal budget deficits as a percentage of GDP are collectively higher under Republican presidents.
Over the past 50 years, total job growth under Democratic administrations has been significantly higher in percentage terms, with an average annual rate of approximately 2.5% compared to barely over 1% under Republican administrations.
When it comes to whining about the economy, please stop acting like you make sense. You don't. Sit this one out.
I don’t disagree with your repeated criticism of the MoCo Council and political class, and the tax and budget situation is catastrophic, but the demise of the local mini Rodeo Drive had its own distinct cause, as I’ve heard. The upscale stores are largely owned by just a couple of European firms. When City Center opened downtown on the site of the former convention center, its owner, the Qatari sovereign wealth fund, told these companies they had to open stores in City Center. They did! The Middle East luxury market is too vital to them. I’ve heard some stores of these firms in Tysons also closed when City Center opened. Again, I don’t disagree with your general thinking, and the decline of Friendship Heights too, but the closing of the luxury boutiques was sui generis.
It's cute how 206 would love to rewrite history. I'm sure you were against DOGE and could care less about NGO's wasting billions of dollars because a bunch of it came back as campaign donations to democrats.
Trump is coming for you and your ilk as the days of unfettered illegal voters is finished. You'll have MD and try to turn it into MN but JD Vance will be the next one in charge
2:06, lots of words that are likely weak on facts: all I know is things just tick along a whole lot better when Democrat policy is kneecapped. There is no denying things were horrible during the Biden years of invoking Obama's irresponsible administration'. It will take some time to fix.
DOGE has been eliminated because it was an abysmal failure. It literally cost more money than it saved with its moronic firings. Speaking of abysmal failures, Trump is hovering around a 35% approval. Only you diehards are still clinging to him. The rest already know that lame duck is toast.
1043 gets all their news from MSDNC. Exposing the fraud liberals heaped on the taxpayers was not only successful but it isn't over. Who knew that many USAID programs were shell companies for DNC grift? Failure because liberal judges end up slapped down by SCOTUS, (iusually including the liberals on the court - except Jackson who actually knows nothing about the law), who repeatedly sides with Trump?
Keep on believing the polls on mainstream media. Even left leaning neighbors in Bethesda can see progress and can actually says things that contain verifiable facts like "the border is secure'
What's really sad about 2:06/10:43 is that they have no idea how the real world works. They believe that raising minimum wages elevates workers without a commensurate inflation factor. Perhaps you got the same degree in economics that AOC got from Boston. Democrats are a constant case study in failure as they do the same thing over and over expecting different results.
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