Waldorf Town Center

[huntr1]

New upscale stores coming to Waldorf.

One of the Washington area's largest developers is planning a $62 million lifestyle retail and entertainment center in Waldorf, and at least two other similar developments are in the works nearby, though on smaller scales.
The developer says the Waldorf project, designed as an outdoor main street, will feature upscale shopping, fine dining, professional office space and a hotel -- all amid idyllic landscaping.
It is being billed as an entertainment hub for Southern Maryland and will be anchored by a 14-screen cinema with stadium seating, making it one of the region's few multiscreen movie theaters.
developers are close to signing deals to introduce some high-end chain restaurants such as the Cheesecake Factory and Ruth's Chris Steak House.


The Waldorf Town Center would feature 190,000 square feet of commercial space and would be on 40 acres on the Route 301 site where the Stardust Hotel Casino once stood.

 

[camily]

Awesome!

 

[rack'm]

and ya'll think Waldorf traffic SUCKS now....

 

[Bavarian]

Seems good. The Bowie town center is nice.
Seems retro trend to open malls. Maybe they think there won't be the roaming gangs that seem to be attracked to the enclosed malls, chasing away older customers. Look at St, Charles Town enclosed mall, they had to put a Charles County Sheriff's station there.

Re Ruth's Chris: went to one in Annapolis, didn't think it was so special, no matter how much Shawn Hannity plugs it.

But stadium seats in theaters are nice.

 

[jwwb2000]

A Whole Foods Store....Now that would be sweet!!

 

[CableChick]

and ya'll think Waldorf traffic SUCKS now....

I can't even remember the last time I went to Waldorf. :shrug: Haven't they run out of room to build over there yet?

 

[CandyRain]

I think I'll move back to Waldorf. I moved there when the mall was 2 years old and the only restaurants were Ruby Tuesday, Rips and Dennys. Glad to see they're improving area standards for dining and entertainment.

 

[Tom Sawyer]

I think Waldorf is a great place for it. Just keep it out of St. Mary's County.

Everyone just loves growth. Isnt it great how the county is growing???? No it isnt great --it sucks.

If I wanted to live in an urbanised setting I could move to one.

I love St Mary's the way it was.

Growth doesnt do anything but make crowds and raise taxes.

I dont mind driving 14 miles to a chain store, as long as I can see some farm land on the way there. I get pissed every time I see a field full of perk holes. There goes another farm and here comes more kids to have to pay for schools for, more Fire protection, more police, more roads to construct and maintain, more pollution for our rivers and streams. More people screaming for more services and then more stores. Not Community owned stores mind you. Damn i got pissed when Mattingly's closed.

Oh well I guess theres no fighting it , we are doomed, as is the St. Marys lifestyle. i will enjoy it while I still can, we Crabs (County Raised And Bred._) are a dying life form.

 

[FastCarsSpeed]

Damn from the looks of it, it will be located South bound 5 right after the walmart light I guess where the old Stardust bar and hotel used to be. Didnt realize there was that much land still located there.

 

[huntr1]

Damn from the looks of it, it will be located South bound 5 right after the walmart light I guess where the old Stardust bar and hotel used to be.

Now WHERE did I hear that already this morning?

The Waldorf Town Center would feature 190,000 square feet of commercial space and would be on 40 acres on the Route 301 site where the Stardust Hotel Casino once stood.

 

[FastCarsSpeed]

Yeah I know I read further LOL... Still is there really 40 acres there?

 

[huntr1]

Yeah I know I read further LOL... Still is there really 40 acres there?

Apparently. Must be a DEEP piece of property.

 

[Kain99]

There's a dead shoping center across the street from where I work. I hope they bulldoze it and put the new development right there! Ahhhhh!!! So nice to dream!

 

[huntr1]

There's a dead shoping center across the street from where I work. I hope they bulldoze it and put the new development right there! Ahhhhh!!! So nice to dream!

You work right across the street from the Mall?

 

[mv_princess]

I think Waldorf is a great place for it. Just keep it out of St. Mary's County.

Everyone just loves growth. Isnt it great how the county is growing???? No it isnt great --it sucks.

If I wanted to live in an urbanised setting I could move to one.

I love St Mary's the way it was.

Growth doesnt do anything but make crowds and raise taxes.

I dont mind driving 14 miles to a chain store, as long as I can see some farm land on the way there. I get pissed every time I see a field full of perk holes. There goes another farm and here comes more kids to have to pay for schools for, more Fire protection, more police, more roads to construct and maintain, more pollution for our rivers and streams. More people screaming for more services and then more stores. Not Community owned stores mind you. Damn i got pissed when Mattingly's closed.

Oh well I guess theres no fighting it , we are doomed, as is the St. Marys lifestyle. i will enjoy it while I still can, we Crabs (County Raised And Bred._) are a dying life form.

I guess you are JPC's MPD, or he is your's..............

 

[Dymphna]

I think I'll move back to Waldorf. I moved there when the mall was 2 years old and the only restaurants were Ruby Tuesday, Rips and Dennys. Glad to see they're improving area standards for dining and entertainment.

When I moved to Waldorf, I lived on a farm. There were three grocery stores, two in the same shopping center. Safeway, where the Circuit City is now and A&P. Then the Grand Union, where Bed, Bath and Beyond is now. There was a drive-in theater in the shopping center with the Safeway. There were four restaurants, McDonalds (only 1 of them), Burger Chef, Rustler's Steak House (for all your fine dining needs) and Herb's Diner. The drug store had a soda fountain counter where we went after church on Sundays. There was one indoor movie theater, it had two screens. There were three shopping centers. The one with Safeway, the A&P, People's Drug, a flower shop, and a Realtor. It had two sets of stores with a big field in between where they would have a carnival every year. The second shopping center had Grand Union, Peebles Dept. Store, Movie Theater, Rustler's Steak house, Mammoth Mart and Dart Drug. And the last of the shopping centers was the one with the paint can on the roof. Other than the paint store, I don't know what was there.

We had three motels, the Waldorf, the Stardust, and the Martha Washington. The Stardust Lounge was closed for regular business, but you could rent it for receptions or other activities. Their sign advertised Fats Domino, until the letters fell off the marquee.

St. Charles was only one neighborhood, no one ever heard it called "Carrington" Smallwood drive was the main road through into it and it ran from 301, passed 925, over the railroad and dead-ended in front of the 7-11. The driveway to the church, there by the 7-11 and the gas station was the driveway to the neighborhood pool. (no church at the time). It was a nice pool, I heard they recently rediscovered it's existance.

Pinefield was the new neighborhood, where they were building all the fancy houses.

There were two elementary schools, Malcolm and JP Ryan and they'd just build a fancy new high school a couple year before, called Thomas Stone.

Dayum I feel old. (I"m 37)

 

[Speedy70]

When I moved to Waldorf, I lived on a farm. There were three grocery stores, two in the same shopping center. Safeway, where the Circuit City is now and A&P. Then the Grand Union, where Bed, Bath and Beyond is now. There was a drive-in theater in the shopping center with the Safeway. There were four restaurants, McDonalds (only 1 of them), Burger Chef, Rustler's Steak House (for all your fine dining needs) and Herb's Diner. The drug store had a soda fountain counter where we went after church on Sundays. There was one indoor movie theater, it had two screens. There were three shopping centers. The one with Safeway, the A&P, People's Drug, a flower shop, and a Realtor. It had two sets of stores with a big field in between where they would have a carnival every year. The second shopping center had Grand Union, Peebles Dept. Store, Movie Theater, Rustler's Steak house, Mammoth Mart and Dart Drug. And the last of the shopping centers was the one with the paint can on the roof. Other than the paint store, I don't know what was there.

We had three motels, the Waldorf, the Stardust, and the Martha Washington. The Stardust Lounge was closed for regular business, but you could rent it for receptions or other activities. Their sign advertised Fats Domino, until the letters fell off the marquee.

St. Charles was only one neighborhood, no one ever heard it called "Carrington" Smallwood drive was the main road through into it and it ran from 301, passed 925, over the railroad and dead-ended in front of the 7-11. The driveway to the church, there by the 7-11 and the gas station was the driveway to the neighborhood pool. (no church at the time). It was a nice pool, I heard they recently rediscovered it's existance.

Pinefield was the new neighborhood, where they were building all the fancy houses.

There were two elementary schools, Malcolm and JP Ryan and they'd just build a fancy new high school a couple year before, called Thomas Stone.

Dayum I feel old. (I"m 37)

I remember when Safeway was where Circuit City is now. I also remember the drive-in theatre, Burger Chef yum, Dart Drug, etc. Those were the good ol' days!!

My Dad did a lot of the plumbing in the Pinefield and St. Charles houses when they first started those developments.

 

[huntr1]

Dayum I feel old.

That's 'cause you ARE old.

 

[Dymphna]

That's 'cause you ARE old.

 

[hvp05]

I remember when...

I heard about this a few weeks ago, but did not receive a good description of it until now.

When St. Charles was conceived, they designed it around a New England town layout - hold on . Since so many people have been complaining in recent years that Waldorf is just ugly and excessive, I suppose builders want to recapture that "small town" sense.

I don't believe they can do it, because the town is already huge and continues growing. And this new town center will not reform the parts that are already crummy. But, that said, I do applaud their effort to do something different and creative... instead of just another mall.

I live in La Plata and have a job and friends in Waldorf, so I am up there almost every day.