MEMORANDUM

TO: City Council

FROM: David J. Deutsch, City Manager

SUBJECT: Bowie Marketplace Update

DATE: February 28, 2008
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JBG Rosenfeld, the current owner of Bowie Marketplace, will provide a briefing on their still evolving development plan for the center. Mr. Carter Davis of JBG Rosenfeld will make the presentation. The conceptual plan includes a reconfiguration of the center under the existing C-S-C (Commercial Shopping Center) zoning. The proposed plan reorients the center, with one principal access, to MD 450 and retains the Safeway grocery store and several other tenants. In a related move, Safeway intends to submit a Special Exception application to allow gasoline sales, similar to their Fairwood location, along MD 450 in front of their future store location. A Stakeholders Meeting for the Safeway gas pump proposal has been tentatively scheduled for Wednesday, March 19, 2008.

Mr. Davis and his consultants will be available to answer questions from Council. JGB Rosenfeld will be actively marketing the center at the International Conference of Shopping Centers (ICSC) conference in Washington, DC in March.