Georgetown’s “Social Safeway” is interested in mending its pedestrian-unfriendly, suburban-styling ways. According to the hard-to-link-to Dupont Current (part one and two of the article), Safeway is looking to replace its one-story market that’s behind a large parking lot with a two-story building at the sidewalk’s edge. The first floor would contain smaller street-facing stores, possibly “a deli, sushi bar and Starbucks,” with the larger market on the second floor and parking (265 spaces, up from the current 190) behind.

Might Safeway bring a similar kind of modern thinking to its 17th Street store? Georgetown’s Safeway was last remodeled in 2003, says the Current; the 2006 renovation of 17th Street’s Safeway is often cited as a reason they won’t fix the problems with their poorly designed store there.

David Alpert created Greater Greater Washington in 2008 and was its executive director until 2020. He formerly worked in tech and has lived in the Boston, San Francisco Bay, and New York metro areas in addition to Washington, DC. He lives with his wife and two children in Dupont Circle.