July 29th, 2010 | by Marcus Afzali | published in Businesses, City Garage/Condos/City Hall, Downtown, General College Park, Politics
A local establishment and a powerhouse national chain are both moving into College Park over the next month with the long anticipated opening of the original Ledo’s Pizza in about two weeks and Best Buy slated to open in the College Park Market Place in early September. I think both will help College Park in [...]
May 17th, 2010 | by Clay Gump | published in Businesses, Downtown
If you have a cool $5 3/4 Million available consider picking up this gem in downtown College Park. There has been intense interest in this property from developers. Even the University is considering purchasing this 2.6 acre plot. The location connects directly to the southern end of the East Campus development.
7501 Flier
August 6th, 2009 | by Clay Gump | published in Businesses, Downtown
At the opening ceromony yesterday for the new downtown parking garage amid the usual pomp and circumstance a big announcement was made regarding the 5800 square feet of ground floor retail.
The original Ledo’s will be moving from their long time location in Adelphi to downtown College Park. This is the mothership of all Ledo’s pizza [...]
July 31st, 2009 | by Clay Gump | published in Downtown, Events, General College Park
Finally those circling in front of Chipotle’s looking for a parking space will have a new option. The Grand opening for the new Parking Garage will be on Wednesday, August 5, 2009, at 4:00 p.m. The garage provides 288 parking spaces plus 5,800 square feet of ground floor retail space. No word on if there [...]
February 25th, 2008 | by Rob Goodspeed | published in Downtown, General College Park, Route 1
We know as well as any the difficulty of keeping track of all the development occurring and proposed in College Park, as well as how hard it is to separate truth from fiction when it comes to the economics of real estate. That’s why we decided to post these slides, presented by the city’s economic [...]
October 4th, 2007 | by R. Michael Farhoodi | published in Businesses, Downtown, General College Park, Speculation
In case you missed it, I wrote an opinion column that was published in last Wednesday’s Diamondback student newspaper entitled “Wawa, good riddance”. To read it, go here.
In summary, I celebrated the demise of the College Park Wawa and how it symbolized the less than desirable conditions of College Park. And while Wawa wasn’t [...]
September 24th, 2007 | by David Daddio | published in Businesses, Downtown
College Park’s nighttime revelers received another fatal blow this week after news surfaced that Wawa will be closing its doors. With the Thirsty Turtle apparently never opening, it’s hard to imagine where the increasingly large crowds “downtown” will go Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights. Can 7-11 measure up? We think not.
August 20th, 2007 | by Rob Goodspeed | published in Businesses, Downtown
While we’re busy dreaming about the new businesses that could come to the mixed use buildings on Route One and East Campus, for the time being most College Park residents are stuck with what we’ve got in downtown. Downtown contains over 70 storefront businesses offering tacos, transistors, tea, and textbooks.
The downtown guide includes the phone [...]
