It wouldn’t have been a Safeway before being bought out
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/realestate/1985/10/12/a-giant-controversy-hits-potomac/affc91fb-a75a-4e5c-80bd-7979bcf9df73/?utm_term=.0091d83c1d0e
A Giant Controversy Hits Potomac
By Joan McQueeney Mitric
October 12, 1985
A proposal to put a new Giant Food store in Montgomery County’s prestigious Potomac Village has spawned expansion moves by an existing Safeway store and polarized residents of the community that is known for its resistance to commercial development.
epresentatives from Safeway Stores Inc. told county planners at the September meeting that it wants to enlarge its existing 20,000-square-foot store on the southeast corner of the Falls and River roads intersection by at least 60 percent, and requested that the master plan not limit future commercial zoning on their side of the street.