Rendering courtesy of City Center DC

It’s been fun speculating where Eataly will end up. PQ Insider spotted a great lead from an interview in Washingtonian with one of the developers:

“Since you emphasize residential tenants, do you plan on having markets?

Yes, in two different ways. We are considering the possibility of integrating a market-like concept into our retail strategy, along the lines of Grand Central Market at Grand Central Station in New York. We’ve also been evaluating some of the market-restaurant concepts.

Such as Eataly?

Yeah. We may have a farmers market, too.”

Awesome.

Old Convention Center site/Future home of City Center DC 11th and H St, NW in Dec. 2008

Photo of City Center DC in Dec. 2011 by PoPville flickr user mosley.brian