Office Depot Relocating This Winter
The office supply store will move to the former Rite Aid location.
The Office Depot in Beacon Mall will move to another location on Richmond Highway this winter.
According to an employee at the store, Office Depot will move to the former Rite Aid building at North Kings Highway and Richmond Highway. The move will take place in February, the employee told Patch.
A new tenant for the current location has not been lined up as of yet, according to David Ben of SFDC.
"That is a spectacular location," Ben said in an email to Patch. "The other tenants in that shopping center perform extremely well, so BF Saul will have no trouble finding a replacement."
The store is having a moving sale; everything in the store can be purchased for up to a 30 percent discount.
MSandyDogg
8:36 am on Thursday, December 13, 2012
That's too bad. I was hoping that Rite Aid location would be torn down as part of the effort to straighten out the Rt. 1/Kings Highway tangle.
Tierney
8:58 am on Thursday, December 13, 2012
I'm sure they've researched the move and know what they're doing, but that old Rite Aid location doesn't seem to be a smart choice. It's kind of like moving to a deserted island.
T Ailshire
9:21 am on Thursday, December 13, 2012
When I mentioned this to my spouse yesterday, I got "Didn't Rite Aid move OUT because the location was hard to get in and out of?"
I hope it works out for them.
MSandyDogg
1:22 pm on Thursday, December 13, 2012
Actually, I think we had a "debate" about this time the last time the Patch wrote about this patch of land. The site was originally an Eckerd's, which briefly operated in our area (because you can never have too many pharmacies apparently!). RiteAid then bought Eckerd's. I think they shut down this location after the buyout, because there's another huge RiteAid so close by. I don't remember this being anything other than an Eckerd's...but maybe it was briefly a RiteAid. Still, I'm pretty sure the reason this location was shuttered was the proximity of the other RiteAids, not because the location was hopeless.
Lucy Hunt
10:00 am on Thursday, December 13, 2012
I wonder if having the building occupied will mean a reduction in the litter on the Kings Highway side, which is very very bad.
Robert M. Weimer
11:11 am on Thursday, December 13, 2012
This move is not smart. Someone at Office Depot will regret this poor decison.
Scooby's Doo
1:50 pm on Thursday, December 13, 2012
Seems to make sense since in that location they would probably be closer to other office uses, and perhaps closer to other users of office supplies and technology.
Jay
2:59 pm on Thursday, December 13, 2012
Perhaps they are looking at the mixed-use places coming on board, and down-sizing in the digital age.
By the way, it would be nice to see Route 1 go underground at that intersection!!
MSandyDogg
3:08 pm on Friday, December 14, 2012
Amen! The aversion planners in this area has to tunnels and overpasses has always amazed me.
ET1221
3:04 pm on Thursday, December 13, 2012
I agree with the other comments about the terrible location of that building. It should simply be removed to help clean up that intersection!
David Vandenbroucke
6:46 pm on Thursday, December 13, 2012
I'm not sure of the business logic, but it will be more convenient for me to walk there.
Jay
7:23 am on Friday, December 14, 2012
Good point David. Slowly, the Route 1 Corridor is thinking about walkers.
Martin Tillett
10:03 am on Saturday, December 15, 2012
Current MV Planning Commissioner Earl Flanagan years ago did a schematic that proposed Route 1 at this locale as an underpass with a roundabout style intersection above that would be accessible for N & S Kings Highway and make it pedestrian friendly for people to move between Kings Crossing and the shopping center ( Old Shoppers) across the way. Made sense when proposed years ago and makes more sense today since the whole area is proposed for increased mixed use development on both sides of Route 1 at this locale. An increase in both residential and businesses makes sense being so close to the Huntington Metro. Idea was nixed by VDOT as I recall. Now is the time to get it right before all of the proposed development becomes a reality.
Phil
12:15 pm on Wednesday, December 26, 2012
Thank you Office Depot. Much better than an empty eyesore.
Does anyone know what's going on with the brick office building across the street and three houses on Poag street? I see they've been fenced off, for demolition I'm assuming.
Martin Tillett
1:58 pm on Wednesday, December 26, 2012
It is a mixed use development project with multistory residential above and some retail and commercial development at street level. This is going to be happening all over to older existing developed parcels and larger empty lot parcels that are considered walkable to Huntington Metro.
Jay
3:28 pm on Wednesday, December 26, 2012
Re: VDOT nixing and funding, we get the double whammy, Richmond hogs NOVA's fair share and Fairfax seems to forget about us here in the corner of the county.
Martin Tillett
3:48 pm on Wednesday, December 26, 2012
Agreed that this end of the county continues to get the short shrift. There is no "real" long term strategic planning that takes into account the multidimensional outcomes for approving these new mixed use projects that will greatly increase the population in this area. Adding hundreds or thousands of new residents adds more vehicular traffic on already overcrowded roadways and increases demands for recreation and parks and other community services. Both the Mount Vernon Supervisor and the Lee District Supervisor were informed by a coalition of citizens arguing that adequate recreation fields, facilities and services were woefully inadequate along the Richmond Highway corridor which has a steadily increasing growth in population. Air and water quality suffers as more vehicles are on the road and increased storm water runoff degrades our local streams. I don't think our local elected officials are very pro-active in these areas. I find them reactive only when a group complains and then they promise to listen and study the situation. Everything seems to end there without anything really substantive happening.
Muffin Mich
10:51 am on Tuesday, January 1, 2013
Yes, it is a lousy location given the congested and confusionimg intersections. I will not be visiting the stores new location as often.
MUFFIN MICH
10:53 am on Tuesday, January 1, 2013
Yes, it is a lousy location given the congested and confusionimg intersections. I will not be visiting the stores new location as often.