Photo: Chill, Penguin! They're not open yet! Credit: R. Pace/SSP.
Workers on Saturday hammered together the final interior touches on the Veridian Market and Wine shop (left), the first retailer to roll at The Veridian apartment building on East-West Highway, South Silver Spring. The shop will offer convenience items like beer and wine, as well as dry-cleaning services, according to a man prepping the sales counter inside.
Cases of Corona beer were already stacked along the back wall, just waiting to chill inside one of the store’s refrigeration cases. It’s not known whether the market will offer limes.
Expect the place to open sometime around Thursday, the dude said.
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Love the cameo! So Hitchcockian!
Even better cameo: Penguin photog Ron Pace, as reflected in the glass door to the right.
What’s the scoop on the new brick-oven pizzeria coming to the old Georgia Blue site ?
I live next door so I’m very excited about that. I hate walking to the one in the Lenox Park, it’s always a pain in the ass to cross the street.
Annoymouse, go on….
There’s a ‘Coming Soon..’ sign over the old ‘Memphis (not Georgia) Blue’ at Georgia and Sligo.
So far, all I know is that it will be called “Pacci’s”.
It looked like some renovation had started when I went by two weeks ago. Future al fresco dining might go down to the building’s left side, closest to the World Building.
Hmmm, interesting. Here’s hoping for a good pie and beer selection.
Nice to know that Veridian, Bennington and Silverton residents can find a beer/wine joint nearby so they can get shit-faced at home.
I like the beer/wine joint at the Lenox apartment building.
I’ve yet to see a bunch of yuppies around our complex (the Veridian). Then again, I just moved here…I’ll keep the masses updated.
Did anyone else catch the massive speedtrap on Colesville this afternoon? Maybe I just drive at the most ill-fated of times.
I think that IHY was more alluding to the fact that if you have an apartment or condo at one of the buildings, you are paying so much money for rent/mortgage that you can only afford to drink at home.
All I can say is don’t use the beer store at Summit Hills – $30 for a 30 pack of skunked Bud Light is not cool.
Why are you so bitter at life IHY? I find it sad when people long for the “good old days” when Silver Spring was a drug den . If you like low rents and drug dealers hanging on street corners perhaps you should move to PG County.
Editor’s note: Play nice. IHY is entitled to be IHY. — JD (Jul 14, 2009)
Bad news bears on that beer experience, Corona.
Also, I don’t pay all that much to live here. It’s all relative really. I moved from New England, so my rent is pretty comparable to what I paid there…and I live right next to the Metro.
Beer and Wines are the lowest common denominators of new retailing. Not encouraging.
I definitely just had to look up “Bad news bears” on the urban dictionary website. I must be getting old lol.
I was excited when I saw the name of the store and the heading of “wine retailer” – I was hoping we might be getting an actual wine shop. Sadly this looks to be just another beer/wine/snack shop. Oh well.
There are plenty of places in the 20910 zip code with low rents. Heck I live in one of them. You can get a low priced rental in DTSS, you just can’t get one that is walking distance to the metro, has a washer/dryer, a balcony, is relatively clean, gated entry, free parking, etc. ALL for $1400 or under a month. You have to make sacrifices/pick and choose (live in a studio, no washer/dryer, live further from metro, no car) or pay more ($1600 and up).
And hey, at least in PG County you can buy cold beer, wine, and liquor all under one roof!
Saw that Veridian put up “No skateboarding” signs all over – took them long enough to catch on – was wondering how much damage to the new installation they were going to tolerate. If I wasa skateboarder though, the signs would make me do it all the more – LOL.