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Read: Good times ahead! That’s a terrific location in Arlington. Easy access to GWU parkway and Arlington neighborhoods! Even the bike trail!

Anonymous wrote:It will be a spirit of Halloween in September and maybe an indoor fireworks stand in the summer.

Going to really boost foot traffic for a week or two.

Maybe a laser tag place will pop up too.

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Anonymous wrote:It will be a spirit of Halloween in September and maybe an indoor fireworks stand in the summer.

Going to really boost foot traffic for a week or two.

Maybe a laser tag place will pop up too.

It’s going to become a huge VAPE/Cannabis store.

Anonymous wrote:It will be a spirit of Halloween in September and maybe an indoor fireworks stand in the summer.

Going to really boost foot traffic for a week or two.

Maybe a laser tag place will pop up too.

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Anonymous wrote:If you want to pretend the Giant wasn't the anchor of the Lyon Village center, go ahead, but no one believes you.

You’re as clueless as anything can be. Whole Foods is the anchor for that neighborhood and others around it.

Do you even know where the Giant was??? Whole Foods is Clarendon Court House. Giant was Lyon Village almost Cherrydale.

From most of LV, it’s an easy walk to WF or TJ. The crappy Giant is farther away, down the hill, and across a not-so-pedestrian-friendly road.

You clearly are not familiar with the area. Go troll somewhere else.

We are talking about the anchor store at the Lyon Village Shopping Center. I have never heard of an anchor for a neighborhood. It sounded like you were saying the anchor for the LVSC was Whole Foods, fyi. Sure WF and TJ are way more popular than this Soviet era Giant; that’s why it’s closed. But it was the anchor store for THIS shopping center.

The point is that most people avoid shopping there. They mostly go to the shopping center for the other shops.

It’s not the “anchor” in terms of traffic.

You’d know this if you lived in the area.

Its the anchor in terms of who is paying the majority of the rent for the property -- and there will be consequences with it gone.

The Giant wasn’t paying the majority of the rent. CVS probably pays the plurality - it’s a large, updated space in premier location. Sq ft is almost as much as the Giant. Giant has been there forever and probably had a low rental rate. Landlord is probably looking forward to asking a higher rate from a new tenant. He’s already raking in so much money the dip in cash flow I probably isn’t hurting him much.

Trolls are the only people who are “concerned” that it’s gone.

The CVS footprint is about half the Giant, just look at Google Maps.

Maybe the rate is lower for Giant but the lease I’m sure has been renewed on the last decade, it’s hardly locked in from the 60s.

He is not getting a new tenant with a higher rate — the lot is being redeveloped it public knowledge so no one is going to move on to be kicked out in X years by the county.

The land will take years to get rezoned. And that's just step 1. It will be 10-15 years before a single lot is redeveloped as part of Plan Langston Blvd. Also, the County can't kick out the tenant. This is a privately owned property.

Well landlord suddenly has right to redevelop to high density, you can bet they will jack up rent or not renew. That won’t attract a high quality tenant with that uncertainty hanging over them.

Ok… and? That particular Giant was not a high quality neighborhood amenity. No one misses it. Even the little Safeway in Rosslyn was better.

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Anonymous wrote:If you want to pretend the Giant wasn't the anchor of the Lyon Village center, go ahead, but no one believes you.

You’re as clueless as anything can be. Whole Foods is the anchor for that neighborhood and others around it.

Do you even know where the Giant was??? Whole Foods is Clarendon Court House. Giant was Lyon Village almost Cherrydale.

From most of LV, it’s an easy walk to WF or TJ. The crappy Giant is farther away, down the hill, and across a not-so-pedestrian-friendly road.

You clearly are not familiar with the area. Go troll somewhere else.

We are talking about the anchor store at the Lyon Village Shopping Center. I have never heard of an anchor for a neighborhood. It sounded like you were saying the anchor for the LVSC was Whole Foods, fyi. Sure WF and TJ are way more popular than this Soviet era Giant; that’s why it’s closed. But it was the anchor store for THIS shopping center.

The point is that most people avoid shopping there. They mostly go to the shopping center for the other shops.

It’s not the “anchor” in terms of traffic.

You’d know this if you lived in the area.

Its the anchor in terms of who is paying the majority of the rent for the property -- and there will be consequences with it gone.

The Giant wasn’t paying the majority of the rent. CVS probably pays the plurality - it’s a large, updated space in premier location. Sq ft is almost as much as the Giant. Giant has been there forever and probably had a low rental rate. Landlord is probably looking forward to asking a higher rate from a new tenant. He’s already raking in so much money the dip in cash flow I probably isn’t hurting him much.

Trolls are the only people who are “concerned” that it’s gone.

The CVS footprint is about half the Giant, just look at Google Maps.

Maybe the rate is lower for Giant but the lease I’m sure has been renewed on the last decade, it’s hardly locked in from the 60s.

He is not getting a new tenant with a higher rate — the lot is being redeveloped it public knowledge so no one is going to move on to be kicked out in X years by the county.

The land will take years to get rezoned. And that's just step 1. It will be 10-15 years before a single lot is redeveloped as part of Plan Langston Blvd. Also, the County can't kick out the tenant. This is a privately owned property.

Well landlord suddenly has right to redevelop to high density, you can bet they will jack up rent or not renew. That won’t attract a high quality tenant with that uncertainty hanging over them.

Ok… and? That particular Giant was not a high quality neighborhood amenity. No one misses it. Even the little Safeway in Rosslyn was better.

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Anonymous wrote:If you want to pretend the Giant wasn't the anchor of the Lyon Village center, go ahead, but no one believes you.

You’re as clueless as anything can be. Whole Foods is the anchor for that neighborhood and others around it.

Do you even know where the Giant was??? Whole Foods is Clarendon Court House. Giant was Lyon Village almost Cherrydale.

From most of LV, it’s an easy walk to WF or TJ. The crappy Giant is farther away, down the hill, and across a not-so-pedestrian-friendly road.

You clearly are not familiar with the area. Go troll somewhere else.

We are talking about the anchor store at the Lyon Village Shopping Center. I have never heard of an anchor for a neighborhood. It sounded like you were saying the anchor for the LVSC was Whole Foods, fyi. Sure WF and TJ are way more popular than this Soviet era Giant; that’s why it’s closed. But it was the anchor store for THIS shopping center.

The point is that most people avoid shopping there. They mostly go to the shopping center for the other shops.

It’s not the “anchor” in terms of traffic.

You’d know this if you lived in the area.

Its the anchor in terms of who is paying the majority of the rent for the property -- and there will be consequences with it gone.

The Giant wasn’t paying the majority of the rent. CVS probably pays the plurality - it’s a large, updated space in premier location. Sq ft is almost as much as the Giant. Giant has been there forever and probably had a low rental rate. Landlord is probably looking forward to asking a higher rate from a new tenant. He’s already raking in so much money the dip in cash flow I probably isn’t hurting him much.

Trolls are the only people who are “concerned” that it’s gone.

The CVS footprint is about half the Giant, just look at Google Maps.

Maybe the rate is lower for Giant but the lease I’m sure has been renewed on the last decade, it’s hardly locked in from the 60s.

He is not getting a new tenant with a higher rate — the lot is being redeveloped it public knowledge so no one is going to move on to be kicked out in X years by the county.

The land will take years to get rezoned. And that's just step 1. It will be 10-15 years before a single lot is redeveloped as part of Plan Langston Blvd. Also, the County can't kick out the tenant. This is a privately owned property.

Well landlord suddenly has right to redevelop to high density, you can bet they will jack up rent or not renew. That won’t attract a high quality tenant with that uncertainty hanging over them.