NoMa's Constitution Square is filling in nicely. After securing Harris Teeter last year to occupy 50,000 s.f., StonebridgeCarras, Constitution Square's developer, announced the signing of five more retail leases today. A diverse group of tenants will occupy an additional 17,000 s.f., coming online to serve the 5,000 new employees headed for NoMa this year, as well as residents of the 750 apartments set to finish later in the year.
TD Bank will be NoMa’s first 
full-service banking facility with a 5,200 s.f. space. Feeding hungry workers will be Potbelly's and Constitution Café. Keeping them awake will be the responsibility of Tynan Coffee & Tea, which already operates in Columbia Heights. And adding a bit of starch, Georgetown Valet drycleaners are beefing up with yet another store added to its many throughout the District. All retailers are expected to open later this year.
Accordingly, Harris Teeter is poised to begin interior upfit of its SK&I Architects-designed store, making it the first grocery store in NoMa. The chain is currently seeking a general contractor to build the interior and should make a selection by the end of February. Clark Construction, the General Contractor for the entire Constitution Square project, is scheduled to finish the exterior and the core of the 50,000 s.f. space in time to turn it over to Harris Teeter for interior construction in late March or early April.
According to Glen Thomson of Harris Teeter, the store at the corner of First and M Streets, NE, might open as early as November. The grocery chain signed a 20-year lease for the site with Stonebridge in 2009. The District is providing a tax incentive to assist with the cost of providing 150 parking spaces for the Harris Teeter store, as it did with the DC USA Center in Columbia Heights. The two-phase Constitution Square project kicked off in April of 2008 and will eventually include a 206-room Hilton hotel, 440 apartments, and 340,000 s.f. of office space. Washington, DC real estate and development news
11 comments:
Hopefully NoMa can attract some new and interesting retailers to make their area a bit more unique. Otherwise I suspect we will see Au Bon Pain, Chop't, Cosi, Firehook, McCormick and Schmicks, Daily Grill...
Au Bon Pain's already there. I'd also love to get some of those other ones as well!
The local places will be coming along eventually as well... Tynan & Pound are both local and small, and there's still a lot more current and future retail space ready to lease.
While Tynan is a great local coffee shop in Columbia Heights, http://www.tynancoffeeandtea.com/.. Pound is also in the area and was NoMa's first new retailer in decades! Hopefully these great new places can bring in more local stores and restaurants because there is definitely an untapped demand for more cool spots in the neighborhood.
Would love to see a CVS, Wallgreens, or an Riteaid there.
i'd love to a restaurant.
GIVE ME A BAR!
Harris Teeter will have a full pharmacy, so no way we get a CVS or other drugstore in Constitution Square. But I think one would be great as part of 90 K Street at First & K.
We really need a gym, too...
I agree a gym would be nice to have an an upscale resturant possibly ?
chico,
agreed, when i said restaurant, i really meant bar.
Oasis liquor is opening back up. Who needs a bar?
Does this mean McDonald's won't be reopening?
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