Famous caterer
will upgrade to "HQ 2"
on current site
Ridgewells, the Bethesda catering business that is a local institution, will stay on Dorsey Lane. The company made the announcement at a press conference outside their headquarters this morning. Ridgewells is signing a 20-year lease extension at 5525 Dorsey Lane. They also plan to convert the site into an "HQ 2," by turning an adjacent building into a two-story office building for their employees, while gutting and renovating the existing kitchen facilities in the current building.
The Ridgewells decision is a rare positive one for Montgomery County, reeling after hitting rock bottom in regional economic development statistics this decade. Having failed to attract a single major corporate HQ to the county in two decades, and businesss windows countywide sporting now-ubiquitous "Going Out of Business" signs, officials have to instead struggle to keep the headquarters and businesses we have like Marriott and Ridgewells from leaving.
