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Snapshot: Safeway - Old Dominion, McLean, VA

Safeway Opened:  ca. 1960s Location:  6244 Old Dominion Dr, McLean, VA Photographed:  February 2021 Contributor:  L.D. A very cool store that we're taking a look at today! The Safeway at the Chesterbrook Shopping Center dates back to the Marina days of the 1950s/60s with an original 11,000 square foot Marina building. Today, it's been expanded out to 36,000 square feet but its Marina essence remains. It looks like a very attractive redesign of an original Marina store -- and I'm very glad they've left the bones visible instead of covering them all up! Here's what the store looked like prior to its remodel. It also looks like the wooden ceiling beams are visible inside. Certainly a place I'd like to visit if I were ever in the area myself. Tomorrow, we have another Safeway just to the southeast. Come back to check it out!

Snapshot: Balducci's Food Lover's Market - McLean, VA

Balducci's Food Lover's Market Opened: unknown Location:  6655 Old Dominion Dr, McLean, VA Photographed:  February 2021 Contributor:  L.D. Welcome to our first DC area store! This is the first of several posts from pictures sent in by a contributor. This 14,000 square foot Balducci's, in the northwestern DC suburb of McLean, may have previously been another chain supermarket, and I couldn't find an opening date for Balducci's either. This was one of the Balducci's acquired by Albertsons Mid-Atlantic in January 2021, when parent KB US Holdings went bankrupt. KB, of course, was just an LLC from a foreign investment firm to hold Kings and Balducci's. We've covered plenty of the Kings up in NJ (and NY/CT), but not too many Balducci's -- just Scarsdale and Westport . There are 8 Balducci's in total. Tomorrow we're going to see another Albertsons-owned store in town here on The Market Report!