McLean - Chesterbrook Shopping Center
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Anonymous
| FP is one McLean neighborhood totally worth the sac rife of that awful Safeway, IMO. I didn't buy in FP, but I wish I had! |
Anonymous
| that is: scarifice |
Anonymous
20 years ago the Lee Harrison shopping center was a dump with an A&P grocery store filled with smelly groceries and wretched employees. There was a Dannemann's fabric store, a place that sold foam rubber, a McDonalds and stores that went perpetually out of business. The joke was the place across the street which now has the Sleepy's. A restaurant would open there about every 6 months and close shortly. The manager Dwoskin even pronounced the building cursed. Demographics changed, the Harris Teeter expand the grocery store and the rest is history. You would often see fewer than 5 cars in the parking lot now there are fewer than 5 available spaces most of the time. |
Anonymous
| I wish the Chesterbrook shopping center would improve but I don't see it happening anytime soon. |
Anonymous
It won't. The two developers (Montgomerys and Smoots - who claim there are too many "stakeholders" - but everyone knows that is BS) own a majority of the never-touched stripped malls are too cheap to renovate. Downtown McLean is nothing more than an investment, left to wither away, rather than spring for a few bucks to renovate. I would not be surprised if they have a hand in the Safeway/Starbucks/Vinson Hall area strip mall (in one capacity or another - maybe not under their names, of course), just like downtown. Believe me, it will be a few years before the old people wither away, just like the strip malls - and the young families take a stand for their community. The old people want ZERO change - no property tax dollars toward schools, no improvements, nothing. They are quite happy to have their old people taxes frozen, living off of the younger generation. Of course, no one likes to say this out loud. |
Anonymous
| Not much different than the McLean slumlords who refuse to so much as paint their never-touched 1940's rentals, if the renters are lucky. |
Anonymous
1940"s? Try 1960's, and they are brick. Why paint brick? |