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Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Mom's Organic Market: New Lee Highway Store To Be Complete By Late 2014

Mom's has five other locations planned for the region.

Plans are proceeding for a Mom’s Organic Market in Arlington's North Highlands community, about a half-mile from the Courthouse Metro Station. “There’s no other store like ours in that we are more dedicated to organics and the environment,” said Mom’s CEO Scott Nash. Construction is set to be complete in the fall of 2014. The company, based out of Rockville, Md., has several locations in the region, including Alexandria and Herndon. The store offers a plethora of organic products and has a number of eco-friendly policies in place — some markets have solar panels on their roofs and electric-car charging stations. The location in Arlington will be 14,000 square feet at 2145 Lee Highway. It’s part of a massive mixed-use development that …

Sunday, December 9, 2012

Arlington Board Paves Way for Mom's Organic Market on Lee Highway

New grocery store will be less than a half-mile from Courthouse Metro.

The Arlington County Board unanimously approved a series of measures on Saturday that will allow for the redevelopment of an eyesore on Lee Highway into a 10-story apartment building and bring a new specialty grocery store to the neighborhood. McCaffrey Interests plans to redevelop the former Bergmann's dry cleaning plant and an adjacent property, including cleaning up the environmentally contaminated site. The developer plans to lease much of the ground-floor retail space to Mom's Organic Market, a Rockvlle, Md.-based grocer that unabashedly declares itself an "environmentalist." The store buys local when possible, does not sell bottled water, relies on wind power and composts its biodegradable waste. The grocer would be less than a half-…

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Jason Spencer

2:22 pm on Monday, December 10, 2012

We had a reader questions about the "affordable" units. Per the county's agreement with the developer, the 11 committed affordable units would be considered affordable to individuals and families making up to 60 percent of the area median income — that's $64,500 for a family of four. Find the complete income guidelines here: http://patch.com/bvepW   more ›

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