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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hopefully a Safeway will move in. They are pricey but decent selection overall. The nearby Safeways haven’t been renovated since the 70s or 80s and aren’t worth the trip. [/quote]

The Safeway on Wilson Blvd. was renovated a year ago and both the Cherrydale and Lee-Harrison Safeways were renovated in the last few years.   They may not be worth the trip for you, but they have very high profits per square foot, particularly the Lee-Harrison Safeway.  [/quote]

The Safeway on Wilson (near Geo Mason) is a joke - tiny - basically a glorified convenience store.  Safeway has tried to upgrade it to a real grocery store several times - but NIMBYs Bluemont have successfully blocked it.[/quote]

Didn’t the Bluemont Civic Assn sponsor a design competition for the Safeway site a few years back (before covid). A young architecture student won top prize—his winning entry had 5 or six levels of mixed income housing above a brand new, ground level Safeway store with large picture windows to let in natural light. I think the County Board or Staff was against it and no developer stepped forward. The neighborhood was all “gung ho” about the project idea at the time. The neighborhood may have changed its tune since. That was roughly a generation ago after all. [/quote]

Bluemont NIMBYs screwed the neighborhood when they pulled the stunts they did in the 2010s to block the earlier redevelopment. It would have revitalized that whole strip. I bet we wouldn’t still have an AMP down the road that’s open till midnight 7 days a week (if you want a good laugh, order takeout from La Union and see if you can catch a glance at the men entering / exiting the AMP).

But the NIMBYs like abandoned buildings and sex trafficking apparently?

Shame - has a lot of potential esp given the proximity to Ballston but no developer is going to engage with Bluemont again after that whole debacle. [/quote]

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