The Town of Vienna appears to be getting another bank.
Noodles & Company’s long-standing restaurant in the Vienna Marketplace shopping center (201 Maple Avenue East) is slated to be converted into a Citibank, according to Fairfax County permits.
The New York-based financial institution didn’t directly confirm that it has leased the roughly 2,400-square-foot space, which was vacated by Noodles in January. But the county issued commercial alteration permits for the new tenant on April 30, and the permit has been posted on the former restaurant’s door.
“Citi is committed to serving our customers in Fairfax County,” Ed Patterson, Citi’s central southeast region head, said in a statement to FFXnow. “We continually refine our branch and ATM networks to provide customers with convenient spaces, that are uniquely and thoughtfully designed to support them on their financial journey.”
Though this would be Citi’s only location in the town, the company has existing branches in Tysons (8516 Leesburg Pike), McLean (6643 Old Dominion Drive) and Merrifield at the Mosaic District (8191 Strawberry Lane, Suite 5).
Noodles and Company quietly left Vienna on Jan. 24 after at least 17 years in business. An employee at the restaurant’s Pimmit Hills location attributed the closure to high rent when contacted shortly thereafter by FFXnow.
News that the fast-casual eatery will be replaced by a bank likely won’t surprise Vienna residents, who recently saw a drive-thru Chase Bank take over the spot at 315 Maple Avenue West where Outback Steakhouse had stood for 25 years. Per Google Maps, the town currently has 10 bank branches just along Maple Avenue.
In a couple of instances, conversions have gone in the opposite direction, with food or drink establishments replacing financial ones. Frame Coffee Roasters opened last year in a former Burke & Herbert Bank, and the short-lived Yellow Diner replaced a SunTrust Bank at 501 Maple Avenue West.
Opened at the beginning of April, Yellow Diner abruptly shuttered last week after its owners sold the site to a new team that’s expected to reopen the restaurant as a Carnegie Diner and Cafe. The Pagonis family, which is also behind Nostos in Tysons, struggled to balance the two restaurants and decided a sale would be the best move, co-owner and operational manager Emanuel Pagonis told Northern Virginia Magazine.
According to the magazine, new owner Stathis Antonakopoulos hopes to soft-open Carnegie — which is based in the New York area and serves classic diner food — this Friday, May 24 with a grand opening on June 1.
Though it lost one dining option, Vienna Marketplace is expected to get a new one in the form of Call Your Mother. The Burn reported in January that the D.C. deli will take the place of Cold Stone Creamery, which closed last August, and a commercial alteration permit application was submitted for county review on May 1.
Cold Stone was slated to be replaced by Taïm Mediterranean Kitchen, but that fast-casual eatery has now pulled out of Northern Virginia entirely, closing relatively new locations in Reston, Fairfax City and Pimmit Hills on April 12. A Taïm spokesperson told FFXnow that the company was “refocusing our efforts to optimize growth in the NYC metro area,” where it began.
