where in greater DC to one to a metro national chains typically locate? (Washington: shops)

[brooklynborndad]

The kinds of chain stores that have a handful of locations across the country, and usually only one per metro area.

These include high fashion stores of the type found on rodeo drive and in Palm beach, it includes unique gourmet food shops, and novelty concept stores like the American Girl doll store, recently opened in Tysons Corner Center.

I would think of the high fashion ones as being in Chevy Chase eithe side of the district line, but Im told lots and lots of them are in Tysons Galleria. The food shops seem to be more DC focused - Balducis in Georgetown (theres only one in greater DC, right?) and Eataly (location TBD, but definitely the district, IIUC) - OTOH Sutton Place is Old Town Alex.

Ive been told Georgetown has been weak in getting this kind of store. Are there other parts of DC - Dupont or Chinatown maybe, that have done better?

I can't think of any in North Arlington, but surely that could be a good location for this sort of thing.

[brooklynborndad]

title should be "where in greater DC do one to a metro ...."

[pcity]

Originally Posted by brooklynborndad

The food shops seem to be more DC focused - Balducis in Georgetown (theres only one in greater DC, right?) and Eataly (location TBD, but definitely the district, IIUC) - OTOH Sutton Place is Old Town Alex.

Balducci's isn't "one-to-a-market" and isn't in Georgetown. They're exclusively in the DC and NY suburbs and have multiple locations in each.

Balducci's - Store Locations

[brooklynborndad]

Originally Posted by pcity

Balducci's isn't "one-to-a-market" and isn't in Georgetown. They're exclusively in the DC and NY suburbs and have multiple locations in each.

Balducci's - Store Locations

oops, i meant dean and deluca. which apparently has more than one location in NYC, but only one here and no more than one in any other metro, afaict.

[HurricaneDC]

Tysons Galleria has a lot of high-end stores but I think Chevy Chase beats it in terms of sheer expensiveness. All these shops, along with Saks and Neiman Marcus.

The Collection at Chevy Chase

[paytonc]

They'd probably start in Tysons and/or Georgetown. Both see their share of concept stores and couture retailers, although it does depend on what kind of audience they want to reach: G'town gets more tourists and has a more old money reputation, while Tysons will do more business overall. Third on the list is somewhere along upper Wisconsin: Bethesda, Chevy Chase, Friendship Heights. After that, downtown DC, Old Town, Reston, or the various "better" malls. DC does a bigger food trade due to the large daytime and convention/business travel population.

Arlington punches below its demographic weight in terms of retail; Ballston, Clarendon, and Pentagon City all have lots of space, but there's no one focus.

[JD984]

Here's CBS's take:

Best Places To Shop In The DC Area « CBS Washington

Consistent with paytonc's prediction.