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Elkridge Grocery Store to Open by Mid-November

Find out what's in store from new Elkridge grocer.

Green Valley Marketplace will open in Elkridge Corners by mid-November, according to B. Green, the company leasing the space.

The store will be a “neighborhood market” and “the place to shop,” said Rick Rodgers, chief operating officer for B. Green, the grocer’s parent company, in an email to Elkridge Patch.

Rodgers said Green Valley Marketplace will offer the following:

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  • fresh produce
  • seafood
  • meat
  • deli
  • prepared foods
  • bakery
  • salad bar
  • all the traditional grocery sections
  • naturals and organics
  • specialty/gourmet varieties

“As we get closer to opening, we will tell you in more detail about the many unique products and services that will truly make us the place to shop,” said Rodgers. “We have a lot in store for Elkridge.”

Currently, contractors are sprucing up the 39,571-square-foot anchor property in the shopping center at Montgomery Road and Washington Boulevard. 

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“We’re going to change the layout a little bit,” said Jack Meharg, facilities director for B. Green, showing Elkridge Patch the construction inside the store. “We’re also redoing the whole front of the building,” Meharg added.

“It may not all be done by the time we open,” but Green Valley Marketplace will open “by mid-November at the latest,” he said.

B. Green that it was the new tenant at the Elkridge Corners shopping center, and that Green Valley Marketplace was its first foray into a “full-service neighborhood supermarket concept.” 

Other operations B. Green runs include Food Depot and Cash and Carry in Baltimore City.

“We realize that what’s been successful for us in our Food Depot locations will need to be different because of the demographic and ethnicity differences in Elkridge,” said Rodgers.

Though the products may be different, Rodgers said that B. Green's neighborhood approach will remain.

Benjamin Green, current president of B. Green and grandson of the company's founder, has built his business with local expertise, according to this report from the University of Maryland.

"His family has been supplying food to Baltimore stores for nearly a century," stated the article. "He says he understands Baltimoreans’ tastes better than large chains like Safeway and Giant."

Likewise, Green Valley Marketplace will stay in tune with the tastes of Elkridge. “We will be involved in the community,” said Rodgers, who lives in Elkridge.

Plus, said Rodgers: “The store will have its top critics shopping there weekly. My wife and I live in Grovemont, less than 1.5 miles away.”

Editor's note: This article has been corrected to reflect that the name is Green Valley Marketplace rather than Green Valley Market, as previously reported.


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