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Chris, Actually, many people who commute using Metro frequently stop at the grocery store on the way home from work, even if they use a car to do their regular weekly food shopping. While some might not like the aesthetics of walking alongside several stores facing an alley and into the garage where the Tenleytown Whole Foods is located, that store actually is convenient to the Metro, both for people in the neighborhood who stop there on their way home and for residents of other Red Line neighborhoods who also shop there. When the Friendship Heights Whole Foods opens, the access from the Metro will either be using the Metro level entrance to the garage and walking to the store's garage entrance (staying dry in rainy weather) or a more circuitous route outside. I suspect that there will be many days where the relatively short walk through the garage with direct Metro access would be the preferred entrance for pedestrians and a short cut home from Metro for many residents of the new apartments on that site and the high rise buildings to the north.

by Andy on Jan 29, 2009 3:32 pm • link • report