Per MCPD:
For Immediate Release: Wednesday, February 9, 2022
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Gaithersburg
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Crown Fried Chicken Homemade Waffle & Breakfast at 9120 Rothbury Dr. in Montgomery Village (next to Athens Grill) has closed. Signage on the front door reads, “This Store is Permanently Close, Sorry?” Additional signage lists contact information for the building. The restaurant opened in March 2021 and sold a wide variety of items, including waffles, cheesesteaks, fried chicken, omelettes, and subs.
Last year Crown told us they would be opening a second MoCo location in the 1900 block of Seminary Rd in Silver Spring, but we have not heard any updates on that restaurant’s status. The chain is known for using Halal chicken and has locations across the east coast. The closest franchise locations are in Hyattsville, Waldorf, and Washington, DC.
Stretch Zone, the nation’s first and largest practitioner-assisted stretching company, continues expanding throughout the United States with its first Maryland location now open in the Kentlands neighborhood of Gaithersburg. Stretch Zone takes over the former GNC location at 251 Kentlands Blvd, the former home of GNC.
Stretch Zone, the company that brought practitioner-assisted stretching to the public and introduced a new vertical in the health and wellness industry, closed out 2021 with a record-breaking year of milestones, from its fastest growth of studio openings to its highest-revenue year.
Construction has started on a 244 unit multi-family building with amenity space and internal courtyards at 333 Ellington Blvd in Downtown Crown. This will also include the expansion of the existing parking garage on Copley Place.
The Planning Commission approved the Final Site Plan application SP-8774-2021 on June 16, 2021 and construction began a few weeks back. The Property is comprised of 76,894 sq. ft. (approximately 1.765 acres), located in the City of Gaithersburg (the “City”). Additional information and renderings can be seen below.
King Auto Dealership is requesting approval to construct a new 15,725 square foot dealership building, 19,589 square foot expansion of the existing service center and site improvements. The new dealership building and service center building expansion will be located to the south of the Property.
The Subject Property is located at 953 North Frederick Avenue. The Property is 368,868 square feet and contains 94,774 square feet of dealership and service center buildings. The Property is accessible from North Frederick Avenue, Watkins Mill Road and Russell Avenue.
Rio Lakefront is taking its proposal for a new sign package and design to the City of Gaithersburg’s Planning Commission tonight. Peterson Cos. is asking for language that does not allow for the sign to be within 10 feet of I-270 to be removed to allow the sign to be more visible.
Per the letter from Peterson Cos. to the City of Gaithersburg:
Donutchew, a mochi donut shop, is coming to Rio Lakefront taking over the location that was formerly home to Starbucks next to Fantasticks at 213 Boardwalk Place in Rio.
Earlier this afternoon we spoke with a representative who told us construction has already begun and that Donutchew expects to open in approximately three months.
Back in April we let you know that Feasty Crab would be taking over the old Red, Hot, & Blue location at 16811 Crabbs Branch Way in Derwood/Redland/Rockville.
We spoke with a representative at the restaurant back in October who told us that it would be open “in about a month” pending inspections. Things have taken a little longer than expected, but only the final inspection is left and the restaurant hopes to open this month.
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Selectos Supermarket is now open at 19110 Montgomery Village Ave in the Montgomery Village Center.
The Latin grocery store wise located on the lower level of the complex that was home to the recently closed Einstein Bagels.
Per Novavax:
GAITHERSBURG, Md., Jan. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Novavax, Inc. (Nasdaq: NVAX), a biotechnology company dedicated to developing and commercializing next-generation vaccines for serious infectious diseases, today announced that it has submitted a request to the U.S Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for NVX-CoV2373, its protein-based COVID-19 vaccine candidate for immunization of individuals 18 year of age and older against SARS-CoV-2.
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The Dunkin Donuts that’s located in the recently renovated Rock Grove Center on the corner of 355 and Shady Grove will be relocating, according to Chris Wilkinson of JBG Smith. It will be moving to the back side of the shopping center, taking over the old United Bank location at 16268 Frederick Rd. The bank had a drive-thru, which will be used by Dunkin’.
Due to the design and location of the drive-thru, traffic should not see any major impacts on Shady Grove Rd or 355. Qdoba will be opening soon in Rock Grove and the shopping center is in talks to bring on additional retailers in the near future.