Whole Foods Market Inc. announced Wednesday that it has signed a lease to occupy a 70,000-square-foot flagship space at The Boro, the Meridian Group’s redevelopment of the 18-acre SAIC campus in Tysons.
The first phase of The Boro, a massive project that has not yet earned Fairfax County’s approval, is expected to deliver in 2018. It will feature the largest Whole Foods in the D.C. area, and one of the largest in the Mid-Atlantic, a Whole Foods spokeswoman confirmed.
“Tysons is truly a growing hub for the D.C. area — it deserves a store that will evolve alongside of it,” Scott Allshouse, president of Whole Foods Market’s Mid-Atlantic Region, said in a statement. “As a flagship location, we are dreaming up new innovations that will make this store unlike any other.”
There will be customers, as Tysons welcomes thousands of new residents to a series of high rises that have delivered, or will deliver, in the next several years, not to mention the nearly 100,000 people that currently work there — a figure that could double by 2050.
Formerly called Greensboro Place, The Boro covers a site bounded by Leesburg Pike, Greensboro Drive and Solutions Drive, almost entirely within a quarter mile of the Greensboro Metro station. Bethesda-based Meridian has filed a series of final development plans, which include the Whole Foods building, since January.
