I have not laid eyes myself, but multiple sources in my inbox and
elsewhere are breathlessly reporting a new sign on the sidewalk at 4th and M SE saying simply "Harris Teeter Opening November 5." (This post now
UPDATED with a photo of the sign, retrieved by my own personal stringer.)
To say this is a long time coming is an understatement -- it was five years ago,
in Sept. 2009, when the first official reports of Teeter coming to
The Yards surfaced, and even then, I referred to it as "long-rumored." In 2010 the building at 4th and M with the planned grocery store space
changed from office to residential.
It was in June 2011 that developer
Forest City finally confirmed that the grocery store space in what was now called
Twelve12 would in fact be a Harris Teeter. Work on the site began in early 2012, and now, with a little bit of 2014 left, here we are.
Almost.