Sad news for fans of gourmet foods in the area — the closest Balducci’s Food Lovers Market to Loudoun County will close for good later this month. The location is in the Reston Town Center.
The news was first reported today by the local website RestonNow as well as other media outlets. The closure reportedly comes after a dispute between the store and the landlord over unpaid rent.
Balducci’s is a New Jersey-based grocery store brand that specializes in high-end and gourmet foods. It first opened in Reston in 2018. “Foodies” in the area could often find things there that weren’t available in your typical neighborhood supermarket. According to the company’s website, there are seven other Balducci’s locations, including three here in the DC area. The other local ones are in McLean, Alexandria and Bethesda.
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Pretty soon, Reston Town Center will have all that parking, with it’s stupid & confusing rules, and zero retail tenants. Good job guys. I guess you can rent out parking spaces to the declining number of people using Metro once the pandemic is over.
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I clearly have adjusted my trips to the RTC based on parking rules. Read that as free parking only. What it essentially has done is cut my trips to the RTC down by 2/3. Instead of 3X a month, now I go maybe 1x a month at most. What were they thinking. There has to be other ways to monitor those trying to use the parking structures for commuting lots. Why not dedicated a few floors for commuters; hang tags and monitor that accordingly. The rest of the floors can be short term FREE parking and patrolled accordingly. there has to be another method. Oh yeah, have your businesses leave until no one is left.
“There has to be other ways to monitor those trying to use the parking structures for commuting lots.”
The “we don’t want people to use free parking for Metro” would be more compelling if they didn’t start charging for parking years before Metro opened.
Tyson’s Corner Center has free parking. Are they overwhelmed with Metro commuter parking? Nope!
Boston Properties should have built Metro parking under the new buildings they are developing right across from the Metro instead.
Or, if they are really worried about people parking in Reston Town Center proper (which is honestly quite a hike, especially in bad weather), they could just charge for parking for people who arrive before 9AM without a parking pass.
That would have made too much sense. There are plenty of things Boston Properties could have done, but they were greedy.
Boston Properties was greedy and saw a way to make more money, now they’re feeling the pain. I spoke to a different landlord at Reston Towncenter, the one that owns the condos and retail, and they claimed that Boston Properties told them all malls and centers in Northern Va charge for parking, which isn’t true.
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