Signage is up for Charleys Cheesesteaks & Wings at 9721 Frederick Rd. (previous home of the standalone Verizon store) in the Fox Chapel shopping center.
This will be the chain’s third Germantown location; last year, it opened stores at 19877 Century Blvd. and 20910 Frederick Rd. (inside Walmart).
Charley’s has additional locations in Aspen Hill, Bethesda (Montgomery Mall), Clarksburg (outlets), Gaithersburg, and Wheaton (Wheaton Mall).
The restaurant is hoping to open mid-August.
Charleys is a Philly cheesesteak franchise that opened its first location across the campus of Ohio State University in 1986. While studying real estate at the school, Charley Shin worked in his mother’s Japanese/Korean restaurant in Columbus, Ohio. A wrong turn on a family trip to New York City resulted in Charley’s discovery of the Philly cheesesteak. Charley convinced his mother to sell her restaurant, and invest her life savings of $48,000 into Charley’s, a 450-square-foot restaurant across the street from Ohio State’s campus.
