The Heights Food Hall in Friendship Heights

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Such a flop. I love walking distance and was looking forward to lunch options other than Chipotle and Potbelly’s. Unfortunately nothing was ever really appealing or affordable there.

In other news, excited for the new Trader Joe’s to open in the old J. Crew space and TJ Maxx to reopen…

Wait, another Trader Joe's?? Won't that be like 3rd one within a 3 mile stretch?! Not salty at all about our one in the entire county!

Yes, although we’ll see if the one at the southern end of downtown Bethesda stays open once the FH one opens.

[Anonymous]

The developers and management of The Heights were morons. There are tens of thousands of people in that neighborhood - a gazillion in apartment buildings plus high income single family homes. Well educated, well traveled, high income people.

An international food emporium like a Union Market would have totally worked. A destination place for your cheese and dumplings and Korean tacos and quality meats and fish.

Instead they created a depressing Mall food court like it's still 1984. Even the oldies in Friendship Heights don't want that.

Just a complete failure of vision by the property developers. They should never be allowed to develop anything in the DC area ever again.

[Anonymous]

People knew it was there. The food was bad, very overpriced, and there weren't many dishes even available. Urbano was decent and we actually always ended up there because there wasn't anything we wanted to eat at the other places. If The Heights would have offered a good product, people would have shown up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Such a flop. I love walking distance and was looking forward to lunch options other than Chipotle and Potbelly’s. Unfortunately nothing was ever really appealing or affordable there.

In other news, excited for the new Trader Joe’s to open in the old J. Crew space and TJ Maxx to reopen…

Another trader Joe's? Are they closing the Stanford and Wisconsin (south Bethesda) TJ? That parking lot!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To add: When The Heights first opened, I think GEICO, nearby, was fully staffed. There are also other large-ish businesses, including Metro staff, and Metro riders. I don’t know if the Heights ever reached out to any of these potential sources of customers. I will say that as someone who occasionally takes the bus and the Metro trains, I never saw any posters or other information that would alert me to the presence of a food hall immediately at the top of one of the Metro station exits. If they didn’t want to pay to put up a poster in the tunnel leading directly to the exit just steps from the Heights, they could have done something with the building — like posting menus — to indicate to the thousands of commuters that the Heights was open, eager for business and sold prepared food inside.

Ok, I think I’m done now. This is a loss for the neighborhood and for the vendors.

It's the economy, atupid.
If there was a McDonalds there, there would be people coming in. Sad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To add: When The Heights first opened, I think GEICO, nearby, was fully staffed. There are also other large-ish businesses, including Metro staff, and Metro riders. I don’t know if the Heights ever reached out to any of these potential sources of customers. I will say that as someone who occasionally takes the bus and the Metro trains, I never saw any posters or other information that would alert me to the presence of a food hall immediately at the top of one of the Metro station exits. If they didn’t want to pay to put up a poster in the tunnel leading directly to the exit just steps from the Heights, they could have done something with the building — like posting menus — to indicate to the thousands of commuters that the Heights was open, eager for business and sold prepared food inside.

Ok, I think I’m done now. This is a loss for the neighborhood and for the vendors.

It's the economy, atupid.
If there was a McDonalds there, there would be people coming in. Sad.