Elkridge has Trader Joe’s. Columbia has Wegmans and, soon, Whole Foods.

Now Ellicott City is joining the specialty supermarket game.

Harris Teeter will open its doors by early next year, according to Bmore.com. 

The website reports that the 48,000 square foot grocer will be the anchor in Ellicott City’s new Town Square at Turf Valley shopping center. 

Harris Teeter spokeswoman Danna Jones told Bmore.com that this will be the chain’s 8^th store in Maryland and that it will have a staff of 115.

Residents slept outside of Wegmans to be the first inside on opening day, June 17 and Whole Foods recently signed a lease at the former Rouse Company headquarters in downtown Columbia.

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