Town & Country Markets not moving forward with Gig Harbor store

One particular grocery store’s long, continuing flirtation with Gig Harbor seems to have cooled off nevertheless once more.

City & Country Markets this 7 days instructed The Information Tribune it’s no longer transferring ahead with programs for a proposed Peninsula Searching Center retail store on Judson Road downtown.

“Town & Region Markets has been operating to track down a new retailer in the Gig Harbor group for quite a few decades, doing the job with two diverse developer groups, the latest of which was to establish a downtown spot,” City & Country claimed in an emailed assertion.

“At this time, a mix of variables, including basic slowing in the broader economy, continued provide chain problems, and rapid expense escalation, led to the realization that this wasn’t the correct time and instances to shift forward with a new place in Gig Harbor.”

The web site was the second one particular to tumble to the wayside for the grocer, just after before preliminary strategies for a internet site at Village at Harbor Hill collapsed from that development’s delays in its courtroom battle around targeted traffic effects charges, afterwards settled amongst the developer and city of Gig Harbor.

The Village at Harbor HIll talks ended up 1st verified by The Information Tribune in 2015. At the time, ideas called for the grocer to anchor the 18-acre retail centre then planned at Borgen Boulevard and Harbor Hill Push.

“We labored tough on that (project) and it just received sophisticated and then with the issues about visitors mitigation, it was time for us to go our individual strategies,” City & Region CEO Bill Weymer told The News Tribune about the scuttled Harbor Hill programs in summertime of 2020.

Rush Development purchased a partial stake in the Peninsula Procuring Center Feb. 25, 2020, and had been in talks with City & Place considering the fact that then.

QFC was the past grocer at the purchasing middle, leaving in 2011 for its Place Fosdick spot. QFC at some point shut and later turned Main & Vine, a two-12 months experimental grocery venture run by its father or mother enterprise Kroger.

Gig Harbor’s grocery scene ongoing to evolve, with the addition of Metropolitan Market in the former Most important & Vine area in Oct 2021. That grocer joined an already set up Fred Meyer, Harbor Greens and Safeway running mere blocks from a person another.

Chris DeWald, vice president of Hurry Progress, advised The Information Tribune on Wednesday by way of email that in spite of the setback: “There are no programs to redevelop the web site as some thing other than a procuring middle.”

As documented in March, designs to overhaul the shopping middle submitted in November incorporated eradicating a part to grow parking, alongside with façade and aesthetic enhancements to the web site and tenant enhancements, all “with a key function to reintroduce a regional grocery retailer use to the site,” in accordance to the submitted documents.

For now it’s again to the drawing board and the social media guesses of what is coming following, along with the constantly-persistent would like from some people for Trader Joe’s, which the town experimented with to entice to arrive to that same site in 2011.

“We are preparing to go out to current market featuring the vacant area for lease and see who could be intrigued. We are nonetheless hoping to come across a grocer for the site, but we shall see,” DeWald wrote Wednesday.

This story was originally posted July 7, 2022 5:00 AM.

Debbie Cockrell has been with The Information Tribune since 2009. She reports on business and improvement, regional and regional problems.