Harris Teeter is opening its Ellicott City store April 3, according to a company spokeswoman, even as
the North Carolina grocer considers a sale to two private equity firms.
It does not yet have an opening date for its Canton Crossing shop to
open in a shopping center along with Target, Michael's, Five Below and local Greek restaurant Samos. The company says in a
statement that it will "continue its strategic, new store growth plan."
The grocery store will anchor a $22 million open-air shopping center called
Town Square at Turf Valley. The site will also feature three or four restaurants and 10 to 15 shops totaling 100,000 square feet, says Tom Fitzpatrick, president of Owings Mills developer
Greenberg Gibbons Commercial Corp.
The 48,000-square-foot Ellicott City
Harris Teeter will be the grocer's eighth Maryland store. It opened a store in Baltimore City late last year, anchoring Locust Point’s
McHenry Row. The Turf Valley store will employ 115, Jones says.
Located at the Turf Valley Resort and Conference Center, the new shopping center will have many of the same features as Greenberg’s Hunt Valley Towne Centre and Annapolis Towne Centre at Parole, including an outdoor gathering space with fireplace and water fountains. It will feature all-brick landscaping and exterior.
Fitzpatrick says he hopes the 100,000-square-foot center will draw from Clarksville, Glenelg and other affluent communities in western Howard County.
Restaurants will be of the upscale casual variety, rather than fine dining, Fitzpatrick says. He declined to name the restaurants and shops slated to open until a formal announcement is made later this year.
The Turf Valley site will also include a separate office complex, 160,000 square feet of office space, 150 townhomes and 192 condominiums built by the Keelty Co. of Stevenson.
Writer: Julekha Dash
Sources: Tom Fitzpatrick, Greenberg Gibbons; Danna Jones, Harris Teeter