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A greener grocer
A look at some of the energy-efficient traits of the rebuilt Safeway in Georgetown, which opens Thursday.
Refrigeration
● The store expends the most energy keeping food cold. The old store used one refrigerant system. The new one splits refrigeration into six strategically placed units that use less refrigerant and less copper pipe, which increases efficiency.
● When a customer opened a glass freezer door in the old store, the glass would fog. Safeway could mitigate fogging by
having heated glass in the old doors. There are no heaters in the new doors. Instead, the glass doors are covered in an anti-fog coating.
● The 348 high-efficiency fan motors in the refrigerated cases save Safeway more than $32,000 in electricity costs a year.
BILL O’LEARY/THE WASHINGTON POST
Workers set up fixtures at the Safeway in Georgetown, which is to open Thursday with more amenities than the old one.
Reopening is set for larger ‘Social Safeway’
After an invitation-only gala
by Lisa Rein
A year after it was torn down, a
new green, pedestrian-friendly Safeway will reopen in upper Georgetown on Thursday, becom- ing the District’s largest super- market. The 71,067-square-foot super-
market at 1855 Wisconsin Ave. NW, dubbed the “Social Safeway” because of the number of single people who shop there, will oper- ate 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Unlike the old windowless store, which was almost 50 per- cent smaller and sat behind a parking lot, the new one occupies the second floor of an airy brick building with a balcony overlook- ing the street. It’s the first Safe- way in the District to offer cater- ing and the third full-service store to open in Washington in 20 months. Two weeks ago, Southwest
Washington residents welcomed a 54,134-square-foot store just steps from the Waterfront-SEU Metro station with many of the same amenities, and another store opened in the CityVista complex in Mount Vernon Trian- gle in September 2008.
But with shoppers looking for more from their grocery store — and Georgetown shoppers having the highest incomes in the Dis- trict — the new Safeway is a de- luxe market.
Wednesday night, the store will open to the public at 8 a.m. Thurs- day, with a climate-controlled wine cellar stocking 2,500 bottles, an open-flame hearth oven bak- ing artisan breads, a personalized birthday and wedding-cake serv- ice and flat-screen televisions. The company’s third “urban life- style” store in the District also fea- tures a sit-down sushi bar, gour- met cheese department, gelato stand and a carousel grinding fresh nuts. Safeway officials declined to disclose the cost of the renova- tion, but the Georgetown store, the company’s 16th in the Dis- trict, has for years been its most profitable. Safeway hopes Georgetown will become the city’s first grocery store certified as a Leadership in Energy and Environmental De- sign green building. The site fea- tures vegetation systems to filter rainwater, a white membrane laid on the roof to avoid the heat- island effect of black asphalt, en- ergy-saving refrigerants and com- posting of old produce. “They’re taking a page from the Whole Foods playbook,” said Bob Goldin, executive vice president of Technomic, a food consulting firm in Chicago. “They’re tailor- ing the store to neighborhood de- mands: Youthful, liberal, socially conscious, environmentally con- scious.”
Materials, green ratings
● Safeway will apply for LEED certification as part of a green building program run by the U.S. Green Building Council. Safeway officials hope for at least a Silver rating.
● Bob Messer, Safeway’s architect focused on urban planning, says the store’s energy bill is 50 percent of what it was 10 years ago. Safeway can manage the Georgetown store’s lighting,
heating and cooling remotely from Lanham.
● The store was painted with low-VOC (volatile organic compounds) paint, which has less effect on air quality.
● All fixtures are designed to save water, including faucets in the deli and bathrooms and hoses in produce.
Lighting
● Patterns on windows, known as fritting, are different around the store depending on solar orientation. Some windows also have canopies to keep out direct sunlight.
● High-efficiency LED lights are used throughout the building.
Composting and recycling
● Safeway says 65 percent of its stores will compost by the end of this year, most of them on the West Coast. According to the company, they divert 85 percent of waste by composting. The waste is stored in leak-proof containers and shipped to contractors.
● Cardboard, the grocery’s biggest waste product, is made into cardboard containers.
● Produce, floral waste and coffee grounds are sent to “compost partners,” which create nutrient-rich soil.
● Plastic is sold to Trex and turned into deck planks. ● Wood waste is remanufactured into wood palettes. ● Grease, fat and foam are turned into animal feed and biodiesel fuel.
SOURCES: Safeway, architectural drawing by Torti Gallas and Partners, cooler image by Hussman
THE WASHINGTON POST
The region’s No. 2 grocer, which had annual sales of $40.8 billion last year, has faced growing com- petition from high-end specialty stores such as Whole Foods — less than a mile up Wisconsin Avenue — and affordable grocers such as Costco and Wegmans. Landover- based Giant, with a store north of the Whole Foods, also is rebrand- ing itself, remodeling about 100 stores with expanded selections. More than 1,000 VIPs, from
senators to television commenta- tors, were invited to the cocktail
gala. The company has spent heavily on media buys and other publicity. Company executives say they’ve lost customers to other grocery stores in the past year. They hope it’s temporary. “It won’t be a problem to get them back,” said Timothy Baker, vice president of real estate for the company’s eastern division. “You can’t buy Coca-Cola at Whole Foods. If you want a scoop of gelato, you cant get it. We’re more in-depth.”
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United Bankshares, the parent company of United Bank, de- clared a second-quarter dividend of 30 cents, up from 29 cents in the year-ago period. The dividend is payable July 1.
United Bankshares, with dual headquarters in the District and Charleston, W.Va., said it has in- creased its dividend for 36 con- secutive years. Its bank has 113 full-service of-
fices in West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland, Ohio and the District.
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U.S. keeps pressure on airlines to auction slots
Delta-US Airways offer at National, LaGuardia is rejected by regulators
by Sholnn Freeman
U.S. transportation regulators are demanding that Delta Air Lines and US Airways auction off landing and takeoff slots at Rea- gan National Airport, creating a potential opening at the airport for Southwest Airlines. Last year, US Airways agreed to
trade 140 slots at New York’s La- Guardia Airport for 42 National slots owned by Delta. In February, regulators told the airlines that it would approve the deal if the two airlines agreed to give up 14 slots at National and 20 slots at La- Guardia.
Delta and US Airways balked.
Slots at the two busy airports are considered valuable among air- lines. National slots are especially in demand because travelers like the airport’s proximity to down- town Washington. Southwest, which operates a big base at Balti- more-Washington International Marshall Airport, has unsuccess- fully sought a presence at Nation- al for years.
In March, US Airways and Del- ta offered to transfer 41⁄2
National and 15 at LaGuardia to smaller airlines, not as many as the government had demanded. In a statement yesterday, the
U.S. Department of Transporta- tion said the counteroffer would be “insufficient to preserve com- petition” at the two airports. Reg- ulators want the two airlines to conduct a “blind sale” of the Na- tional and LaGuardia slots to air- lines that have little or no service at the airports. A Delta spokesman said the airline was “disappointed” with the government’s decision and was reviewing its options. A US Airways spokesman said the com- pany was reviewing the decision. In a joint statement in March, Delta and US Airways said they would abandon the original deal if regulators pressured them to give up more slots. Southwest officials cheered the decision. “This is exactly what South- west was hoping for, and al- though we don’t know ultimately what will happen, this is good news for consumers,” Robert Kneisley, Southwest’s associate general counsel, said in a state- ment.
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