Giant To Open Grocery Pick-Up Location In Chevy Chase

Giant Food and Peapod are building a gas station and grocery pick-up facility at the 8500 Connecticut Ave. in Chevy Chase Lake Giant Food and Peapod are building a gas station and grocery pick-up facility at the 8500 Connecticut Ave. in Chevy Chase Lake Giant Food and Peapod are building a gas station and grocery pick-up facility at the 8500 Connecticut Ave. in Chevy Chase Lake Giant Food and Peapod are building a gas station and grocery pick-up facility at the 8500 Connecticut Ave. in Chevy Chase Lake

Giant Food hopes to open a Peapod grocery pick-up facility and gas station at the Sunoco gas station site in Chevy Chase by this fall, according to a company spokesperson.

The location, at 8500 Connecticut Ave., would be for pick-up orders placed online, according to Giant Food spokesman Jamie Miller. Miller said the Peapod by Giant will open in late summer or early fall.

The facility will be built in the Chevy Chase Lake Sector, where the Montgomery County Council is currently weighing a series of significant zoning changes. Developer Chevy Chase Land Company hopes to build a mixed-use town center across the street from the site and the Planning Board approved a Sector Plan that would rezone the 8500 Connecticut Ave. property to allow for a 35-foot-tall residential and retail development and a 70-foot one after the Chevy Chase Lake Purple Line station is assured.

“The relatively small size of this property limits its potential redevelopment as a stand-alone project. However, its location creates opportunities for redevelopment, as part of an assemblage of properties. To encourage this, the Plan recommends rezoning to match the shopping center’s height and density. If this property is ever assembled with others, as part of a unified development, the number of curb cuts along Connecticut Avenue, between Manor Road and Chevy Chase Lake Drive, should be reduced,” according to the Sector Plan.

A gas station and grocery pick-up site seems to contradict the more urban and transit-friendly feeling developers and the Planning Board seek for Chevy Chase Lake.

Miller said it will be a small facility, “where customers can place their online orders in the morning or while at work, then come pick the orders up on the way home.

“We’ve identified a demand for the service at that location,” Miller said. “We feel that this is going to be a growing part of the grocery business and a great convenience.”

Giant Food and Peapod opened a similar location in April in Clarksville and Columbia, both in Howard County.

“Our mission at Peapod is to save our customers time and money — and for many busy families, especially moms, who are always on the go, a quick stop at our pick-up location on the way home is the most convenient option,” Peapod President Andrew Parkinson said in the press release announcing the Howard County openings. “Peapod Pick-Up is fast and easy. Peapod associates greet you at your car, collect your coupons and load your groceries into your vehicle for you — all within five minutes. There’s no need for you to even get out of your car.”

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