A Richmond-based natural/organic grocer is making another go at opening in the Washington area.
Ellwood Thompson’s is in negations to sign a lease at Rockville Town Square, a 180,000-square-foot mixed-use center in Montgomery County, Md. The landlord of the property is Federal Realty Investment Trust.
Ellwood spokesperson Paige Bishop confirmed that the grocer was in talks with Federal Realty to take the space.
“Ellwood Thompson’s has a preliminary agreement with Federal Realty for the grocer space at Rockville Town Square,” Bishop wrote in an email to BizSense.
“The final lease has not been executed, so there is no projected opening date,” Bishop said.
This is not the first time the Richmond-based company has tried to expand to that area.
In January, the grocer terminated its lease at DCUSA, a retail complex in the Columbia Heights section of Washington. They had planned to open a 15,000-square-foot store there and held the lease for almost three years before scrapping the location. The company put plans to open the store on indefinite hold in April 2009, telling BizSense that the poor economy was a deciding factor.
The Rockville Town Square location is about 16 miles from the previously proposed spot.
The Rockville Patch was first to report that Ellwood was in negotiations to take the new space and that it has applied for a license to sell wine and beer. An A&P grocery store had signed a 20-year lease for the same space in 2007 but never moved in. That chain filed for bankruptcy in December.
A Richmond-based natural/organic grocer is making another go at opening in the Washington area.
Ellwood Thompson’s is in negations to sign a lease at Rockville Town Square, a 180,000-square-foot mixed-use center in Montgomery County, Md. The landlord of the property is Federal Realty Investment Trust.
Ellwood spokesperson Paige Bishop confirmed that the grocer was in talks with Federal Realty to take the space.
“Ellwood Thompson’s has a preliminary agreement with Federal Realty for the grocer space at Rockville Town Square,” Bishop wrote in an email to BizSense.
“The final lease has not been executed, so there is no projected opening date,” Bishop said.
This is not the first time the Richmond-based company has tried to expand to that area.
In January, the grocer terminated its lease at DCUSA, a retail complex in the Columbia Heights section of Washington. They had planned to open a 15,000-square-foot store there and held the lease for almost three years before scrapping the location. The company put plans to open the store on indefinite hold in April 2009, telling BizSense that the poor economy was a deciding factor.
The Rockville Town Square location is about 16 miles from the previously proposed spot.
The Rockville Patch was first to report that Ellwood was in negotiations to take the new space and that it has applied for a license to sell wine and beer. An A&P grocery store had signed a 20-year lease for the same space in 2007 but never moved in. That chain filed for bankruptcy in December.
Shouldn’t that be Elwood Thomspons goes to Maryland? Rockville isn’t even in the beltway. Maybe the people in Rockville will come up with a campaign to stop them like Elwoods did to deny us of Whole Foods.