New Businesses Coming to Southern Maryland

CrashTest

CrashTest

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ltown81 said:
The whole issue with the Great Mills Road corridor is it plain looks depressing and really there is not really any place to go if you have money to spend. Shopping at Big Lots, or Ollies? Dinner at whatever the Roost is now? Not to mention huge shuddered McKays shopping center, half a dozen trailer parks, rotting away gas station. It is the only place I have seen a Wawa not succeed. To be honest, there was a time where I went months without going south past Chancellor's run road because there was no reason to. However, replace a trailer park with decent retail (i.e. Kohls, Dicks, etc) and I am down that area a bit now.. I don't feel particularly unsafe on GMR, as I have lived and worked much worse places. There is just not anything shopping or services down there that are useful to me. If they had a Carabbas in St. Mary's Square, I would go.

The worst part is, it can be fixed. There used to be homeless sleeping in the square in Leonardtown. It just takes proper planning. The vibe you get about Lexington Park is that it is almost like "Every place has an area like this, and we are gonna let it stay there". Fixing it requires basically condemning and rebuilding large plots of land. Those people get displaced, and have to go somewhere (with public assistance). I have seen it done elsewhere in MD with great success, but the way things are run down here, it will never happen. They will get sidewalks.

most like someone said "every area has to have a place that looks like this, so here is ours".
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So, maybe it's a deliberate plan to keep all the "unfriendly" people contained in a small area. Perhaps the brainiacs in Leonardtown have their thinking caps on afterall. I like.
 
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Super_Steve

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I've only had their pizza once before and that was 14-15 years ago when I worked in Waldorf. About time they brought a store down here. Looks like they're getting really close to opening day.
 
Disney4845

Disney4845

Commercial Guy
I believe we have Dairy Queen looking hard in the great mills road area.

New Park and Ride coming to Waldorf at the corner of Old Washington Road and Smallwood Drive.

Vivint Solar and Solar City both now in the southern Maryland area.

Yo hielo frozen yogurt coming to Charles county plaza
 
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BernieP

Resident PIA
Super_Steve said:
Man, the new Papa John's next to Hair Cuttery in Charlotte Hall is so tiny compared to Pizza Hut.
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Pizza Hut use to do dine in before it became mostly carry out. Still a few of the restaurants left.
Papa John's I think has always been carry out or delivery. No need for a large store front (which costs more $ to operate).
 
dave1959

dave1959

Active Member
Super_Steve said:
I've only had their pizza once before and that was 14-15 years ago when I worked in Waldorf. About time they brought a store down here. Looks like they're getting really close to opening day.
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Down here??? They have several stores down here, for several years.
 
Dakota

Dakota

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I'm still waiting for a nice grocery store in Charlotte Hall and/or Mechanicsville. :tap:

The old site where McKay's was going to build is starting to get full of giant weeds now. :shrug:
 
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sm8

Active Member
Dakota said:
I'm still waiting for a nice grocery store in Charlotte Hall and/or Mechanicsville. :tap:

The old site where McKay's was going to build is starting to get full of giant weeds now. :shrug:
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I agree. Last week when I drove by it looked like they were starting to work on it again. I don't remember the day but they had the equipment driving around on the site anyway.
 
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sm8

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My dad was talking to a county commissioner at the grocery store and he was telling my dad that a Super Wal-mart would be replacing the farmers market soon and that where the old McKay's off of Great Mills Rd is will be becoming a Chuck E Cheese. My dad is very excited but I have a hard time believing it.
 
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