WBJ | Skyland Town Center finally lands its grocery store

May 20, 2019 The Advoc8te

Courtesy of LIDL

Lidl U.S. will open a 29,089-square-foot, standalone store at the Southeast D.C. property, providing the grocery anchor that developer Rappaport has been trying to land since Walmart’s high-profile exit from the project in 2016. Lidl didn’t provide a specific opening estimate, but Rappaport and co-developer W.C. Smith are already under construction for the first phase of the town center, located at Naylor and Good Hope roads and Alabama Avenue SE. The first phase of Skyland, which includes 263 residential units and 84,500 square feet of retail, is expected to open in late 2020. The grocery store, which will be located in a stand-alone building on the site and will have 200 spaces of dedicated parking, would open sometime after the first building opens. Lidl, which has its U.S. headquarters in Arlington, will manage the construction of the store and make a multimillion-dollar investment in the development.

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