As the first restaurant in the Pike & Rose mixed-use development opens Thursday, developer Federal Realty announced a rough timeline of when about 20 other businesses in the new neighborhood will open their doors.
Some of the biggest businesses – the iPic movie theater, the music and events venue AMP by Strathmore, and Sport&Health Club — will open in November and December. iPic aims to be open by the Nov. 21 release of the next “Hunger Games” movie, Sport&Health says it hopes to be open by December and AMP will be open in December to private events.
Planning to open in November are Gap, clothing and jewelry boutique Francesca’s, City Sports, children’s clothing retailer Yogasa Boutique, Mirage Nails & Waxing, Seaons Olive Oli & Vinegar Taproom and City Perch — the restaurant inside iPic.
Set to open in December are the Chipotle spinoff ShopHouse Southeast Asian Kitchen, Summer House, Stella Barra Pizzeria, Roti Mediterranean Grille, La Madeleine Country French Cafe and PR at Partners Salon and Spa.
Remaining tenants Protein Bar and the yet-to-be-named beer garden from Neighborhood Restaurant Group will open next year, the developer said.
The restaurants and retailers are the first phase of Rockville-based Federal Realty’s transformation of the former Mid-Pike Plaza shopping center, located on 24 acres at the northwest corner of Old Georgetown Road and Rockville Pike.
It’s the first major redevelopment project to come as a result of the 2010 White Flint Sector Plan and will include 450,000 square feet of retail, 1.1 million square feet of office space, a 300-room hotel, apartments and condos.
The free-standing building near the corner of Old Georgetown Road and Rockville Pike is the only part of the old Mid-Pike Plaza that will remain. A number of businesses — Bank of America, $1.98 Dry Cleaners, Starbucks and Vision Works — remained there.
Federal Realty added a pedestrian plaza to the building, where the Chipotle will open in a new storefront.
