Is there really a demand for more of the same businesses? We need another nail salon, more fast food and now a third urgent care within a mile (or two) of each other? I was really hoping for something different. Maybe a shoe store (not a payless), or a bakery, an independently owned store rather than a chain. Is that possible anymore???

don't all these urgent care, etc, places take away from good real medical care? why do we need more and more low class asian and pizza eateries? especially when we keep harping on all the extremely overweight children and adults in the area of route one.

Phil, as someone in the healthcare industry, please do a little research before typing. These "urgent care, etc, places" are a god send to parents and the low income alike. They don't "take away" from "good real healthcare" they enhance it so rich snobs like you can get in to see your fancy concierge physician without having to mingle with the lower classes. And, by the way, you're probably in the minority in MV so those "low class asian and pizza eateries" feed people at a low cost.

I have used urgent care facilities in supplement to our regular providers after hours - so I don;t have to take my kid to the emergency room - and when traveling. Given the demographic of residents who do not have personal transportation along Route 1, there are not an excessive number of these outlets.

As to the eateries, I would also like to see more independent establishments with healthier menus. I don't need more of the same places I don;t go to now.

Urgent care clinics are the smartest thing to hit society in decades. Perhaps they can cut down on people who would otherwise go to emergency rooms for sniffles, sprains, and other minor ailments that don't need emergency treatment but that do need a doctor who works hours besides 9-12 and 2-4 four days a week.

This post isn't really about urgent care clinics, but I'll go ahead and chime in. I have had 4 experiences at such places in the past 2 years, and all have been very good. An urgent care clinic farther south on Richmond Highway had the cheapest flu shots last fall. I was in and out in <15 min. Last February I was out of town and my lousy insurance won't cover anything except a near-death experience, so rather than schlepping 2.5hrs back to Alexandria, I utilized an urgent care clinic. It was located in a former Dunkin Donuts space. They had the most sophisticated IT setup I'd ever seen in a Dr's office. All the staff had touchscreen notepads, and once you gave them your info, it was all there and no repeating. At my primary care doc, you fill out 3 or 4 forms at every visit. The same info, over and over again, wasting everyone's time and money, and allowing multiple chances for inaccuracy. And the office is a mess because there are paper medical file cabinets spilling out into the hallways. Another urgent care I went to had all their forms in .PDF on their website so at least you could fill them out before you went to the office. My urgent care clinic visits have been far better, and wasted a lot less of my time, than any recent visits to my primary care M.D., or other specialists.

I've lived here for 50 years and my opinion is the area is going to grow NO MATTER what we do. So I say bring in the new business as it means jobs to those who are looking and services offered to those who want it. :)

Sure growth is good but we are all not lower class that live here! I think just about every JUNK food place that exist is on RT 1 within 3 miles of this spot. We deserve better healthier independent eateries and grocers here for example Trader Joe's would be great here. Panda Express really...isn't that in all the malls junk and grease just what our young people need to be eating!

Exactly - "Capitalism 101" is right. Just more of the same all across America - more cheap toxic made-in-China wares in cheap storefronts, more fat & salt-laden retail poison to contribute to our health problems, more traffic with accompanying invisible toxic compounds in the air, more invisible pesticide poisons laid down in heavy blankets across every swath of broiling asphalt, no trees, no green space, no clean water source for local suffering wildlife - just greedy developers and chain retailers rushing in while we're bamboozled with b.s. from professional public relations SFDC & we have not choice but to take what corporate/military America wants to shove down our throats regardless of ill consequences for our nearby communities/schools/families - poor lost America!