Prince George’s County Executive Angela D. Alsobrooks has focused in her first year in office on attracting businesses to the county’s inner-Beltway strip malls and improving their appearance. So when she stood alongside the owners of the Ivy City Smokehouse in the District to announce a second location in the county, she was all smiles.
“This is what we have been missing,” Alsobrooks (D) said Thursday at the popular restaurant in Northeast Washington, “a place where some of our younger residents cannot only have high-quality food, but also entertainment.”
The new restaurant will be part of the planned Hampton Park Mall in Capitol Heights, which will break ground this fall. Alsobrooks said that the arrival of the smokehouse would be an important step in bringing the sort of high-quality restaurants and shops to Prince George’s that its residents have long wanted.
“These are people who can afford to eat out and who very often come to the District,” she said, laughing that she often sees and hugs her constituents at the smokehouse, where she is a regular. “We want them to be able to have this experience at home.”
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