Hungry for a New Grocery Store? Safeway, Giant, and WholeFoods!

DID YOU KNOW THAT THE SAFEWAY IN GEORGETOWN IS GOING TO SEEK LEED CERTIFICATION? 

The Georgetown “social” Safeway, at 1855 Wisconsin Ave, NW, should be completed by May and neighbors will welcome its return – missing since it was demolished in April 2009.  The new building was designed by Torti Gallas- and will be submitted for LEED certification review by the U.S. Green Building Council.

Safeway also is proposing to renovate the Tenleytown Safeway at 4203 Davenport St. which DEFINATELY needs to be updated. That plan is before the ANC for review and will go before the Zoning Commission on January 14th, 2010.  Safeway plans to build a two story building on the Tenleytown location, but will not start until the Georgetown Safeway is completed to avoid closing two nearby stores simultaneously. 

The Tenleytown neighbors are definately going to be eating well soon.  Whole Foods will open another DC-area store this summer, just five blocks up the street from Safeway’s Davenport location, and Giant will open new store on Wisconsin Avenue in 2011.