Everyone has been wondering what is coming to the space that Soapstone Market will exit after the end of the month. Wonder no more.
Uptown Market is coming sometime in March:
Uptown Market is thrilled to bring our neighborhood market concept to Van Ness in spring 2019. You’ll find locally sourced and thoughtfully curated offerings like our fresh seafood market, butcher shop, artisan creamery, coffee bar and full bar with lots of dining options and seating . We look forward to meeting you and serving the Van Ness neighborhood, we hope you’ll come to shop and stay awhile.
Uptown Market is from the same people who run Bethesda’s Butchers Alley, a butcher, cheese and sandwich shop, and Pescadeli, a fresh fish market that also sells prepared foods.
In Van Ness, says spokesperson Lauren Durkee, “we’re doing a slightly different concept… but with many of the same elements.”
The cheese counter at Butchers Alley in Bethesda. (Photos courtesy of Uptown Market)
Butchers Alley sells cheese and cured meats.
Fresh fruit and vegetables at Pescadeli.
The fish counter at Pescadeli.
Pescadeli also sells prepared foods.
Green Eyeshades says
The Connection has much better photos, but Prince of Petworth had similar news yesterday:
https://www.popville.com/2018/12/van-ness-uptown-market-replace-soapstone-market/
tjust says
Each new proposal adds enthusiasm for the changes proposed, maybe it is time to re-evaluate the parking options to make improvements in such a way as to add temporary parking spaces for customers who will be visiting the area.
Also, during the planning months ago about spacing around van ness, two very good ideas surfaced and now seem to be missing from all the continual planning.
– establishing a “doggie park” on public grounds in the school campus for the daily delight of seniors and children?
– improving the open band shell so as to make it useable daily and not just be a “white elephant?