Another Lidl discount grocery store is coming to the Route 1 corridor.

The German chain has signed a lease for the former Price Rite location at 3104 Queens Chapel Rd. in the Avondale community of Chillum in an unincorporated area of Prince George’s County close to Hyattsville and Mount Rainier, next to Mid Atlantic Seafood. It joins a Lidl in College Park that opened in 2019 on Baltimore Avenue.

Located down the road from the West Hyattsville location of Aldi, a major Lidl competitor, the future space comprises 33,000-square-feet and takes up about half of the strip mall.

The new store will replace another Prince George’s location that Lidl recently closed in Oxon Hill which was underperforming.

The Price Rite location was previously a Giant supermarket, famous as the location of a visit from the late Queen Elizabeth II during a 1957 trip to the United States.

Lidl, a popular discount grocery chain, has been expanding along the East Coast in recent years.

Other locations around D.C. include Columbia Heights, Takoma Park and Wheaton.

The expansion is part of a boom in grocery store openings that has been taking place along the Route 1 corridor in recent years.

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