The region’s newest Trader Joe’s has debuted, just down the road from one of its longest-standing Greater Washington stores.
The shop at Federal Realty Investment Trust’s Old Keene Mill Center in West Springfield opened Thursday morning, with all the traditional hoopla — music, balloons, shoppers draped in leis, etc. At roughly 14,000 square feet, the new store is a good 4,000 square feet larger than the Trader Joe’s at Rappaport’s Springfield Plaza on Old Keene Mill Road three miles to the east.
And that size shows. The new store is brighter, with wider aisles. Artwork on the walls, honoring, for example, nearby Lake Accotink, reflects the new location.
Trader Joe’s in West Springfield, 8402 Old Keene Mill, replaces the former Whole Foods Market, which spanned some 20,000 square feet. The space Trader Joe’s didn’t take has been carved up between five other, still-to-open businesses — McAlister’s Deli, Zips Dry Cleaners, Crimson Coward Chicken and South Block.
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