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Developer Says Big-Box Center Possible for Suburban Project

GREENBELT, MD-Metroland Developers has filed plans for a big-box retail and industrial project on ground where it has seen its $1-billion project scaled back to a town center plan.

By Mike Cleary | Updated on October 05, 2000

GREENBELT, MD-The developers behind a $1-billion mixed-use development in Greenbelt, MD, have made it clear that they can swap the plan suited for Nordstrom’s for a complex of industrial tenants and big-box retailers like Wal-Mart. That’s prompting alarm among business and government officials who have long wanted upscale retail in the 240-acre Prince George’s County site.

Metroland Developers, a partnership of Clark Realty, A.H. Smith & Associates and Petrie Dierman and Kugh, has already filed plans for the big-box alternative. With zoning in its favor and already owning 170 acres on the site, it could go forward with the plan local officials say they don’t want.

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