Lowe’s store coming to old Owings Mills Mall site


A Lowe’s home improvement store will join Costco at Mill Station, a shopping center under construction at the site of the former Owings Mills Mall, Baltimore County officials announced Monday.

Transforming Tysons


In 1950, Tysons Corner was little more than a mom-and-pop general store at the intersection of state Routes 7 and 123 surrounded by farms with peach orchards and wheat fields.

Retail Project/Lease, 1st place


Costco lease at Mill Station Costco was long on the radar of Kimco Realty to anchor a redevelopment on the site of the former Owings Mills Mall. The wholesale club’s closest location is in Columbia, and Kimco saw an opportunity for the company to tap into not only the Owings Mills market, but Carroll County… Read more »

County Apartment/Condo Project, 1st place


Name: County Apartment/Condo Project, 1st place Project/Deal Name: m.Flats and Ten.M Columbia apartment complexes m.flats and Ten.M are two of the latest projects within Howard Hughes Corp.’s $1 billion Crescent development, aimed at transforming the suburban town’s downtown hub.

Love Maryland Beer? Get Excited for Denizens Brewing Co.’s Big Expansion


One of Montgomery County’s early breweries is ready for a big expansion. Denizens Brewing Co., which opened four years ago in Silver Spring, will debut a new (and larger) production facility and adjoining taproom in Riverdale Park by the end of the year.*

E-bikes are on the rise


According to industry consulting firm eCycleElectric, in 2017 about 36.5 million e-bikes were sold worldwide, mainly in China and Europe. In the United States, only about 263,000 were sold. But things may be changing, and ElectriCityBikes (4810 Wisconsin Ave. NW) wants to help. The e-bike shop, part of local chain City Bikes, opened in 2016, and has… Read more »

City Bikes and ElectriCityBikes Open at White Flint Station in Rockville, MD


H&R Retail, a retail real estate brokerage firm headquartered in Bethesda, MD, is pleased to announce that City Bikes and its sister company ElectriCityBikes have both opened locations in White Flint Station in Rockville, Maryland occupying a combined 3,631 square feet. The new stores are in part a response to growing demand in biking. Both… Read more »

You break it, they fix it: Repair business expanding in Hampton Roads


As a kid, Jason Rollins loved to take things apart, see how they worked and put them back together. “I’m a very mechanical person, always worked on cars, loved tinkering,” he said. This year, Rollins, 23, does much the same with his three new businesses. He has two uBreakiFix stores in Virginia Beach and one… Read more »