Falls Church may be known as the Little City but soon there will be nothing diminutive about its grocery options.
Three different grocery chains are set to join Falls Church’s existing selection of supermarkets in the coming months and years.
Already home to a Giant, a Harris Teeter and an Aldi, the city is expected to add a new Whole Foods and Grocery Outlet within the next year or so, according to Economic Development Division Chief Becky Witsman. A Fresh Market is also slated to arrive within the next few years.
The planned Whole Foods, in a new development at E. Broad Street and N. Washington Street, will likely be the first to open its doors, possibly before Thanksgiving of this year, Witsman told ARLnow. It will join a few other Whole Foods locations in the area, including in Clarendon and Pentagon City.
Then, about halfway through 2025 or later, a Grocery Outlet is expected to open at 500 S. Washington Street, formerly occupied by Target. The store billed as “the nation’s largest extreme-value retailer” is known for its selection of heavily discounted groceries.
This opening follows Grocery Outlet Holding Corps’s recent acquisition of United Grocery Outlet, a grocery chain with 40 other stores across the Southeast. The discount outlet has plans to expand in Virginia and other states including North Carolina and Georgia.
The new Fresh Market at the West Falls development, near the West Falls Church Metro station, is expected to open within the next three years, according to developer Hoffman & Associates, our sister site FFXnow reported last month.
The Fresh Market is a smaller, higher-end specialty market founded in 1982 and inspired by European markets that founder Ray Berry thought offered “a more intimate and personalized shopping experience.”
