Leisureworld Plaza provides medical services, grocery shopping, dry cleaning, banks, a post office and several restaurants to shoppers of all ages.

Leisureworld Plaza Serves More Than Seniors

SILVER SPRING, MARYLAND – Situated around the perimeter of Leisure World, the largest senior community in the D.C. metropolitan area, lies Leisureworld Plaza Shopping and Professional Center. The upscale, 110,000-square-foot center offers customers everything from medical services to grocery shopping to casual dining. 

Whether shopping, banking or dining, Leisureworld Plaza is a safe, friendly place to be. “Leisureworld provides customers with a variety of uses,” says Alan Luger, principal of Divaris Real Estate. “It’s the perfect tenant mix to accommodate people of all ages.” 

Anchored by a 55,000-square-foot Giant grocery store, Leisureworld Plaza is comprised of such notable tenants as Starbucks, Honeybaked Ham, Weichert Realty and GNC.  Additional services include a dry cleaner, shoe store, jewelry/gift store, and several restaurants.  The center also houses five banks and a post office. A 33,600-square-foot professional building with an outpatient surgical center, doctors’ offices, x-ray imaging center and a bank completes the mix. 

DRE’s Rockville office leases and manages Leisureworld Plaza. Luger has handled the property for several years, while working with other companies. “Leisureworld has been with me for over 15 years,” he says.  “I brought it to Divaris, and that’s where it, and I, shall remain!”

Developed by IDI Group Companies, developers of the largest and most successful communities in the D.C. area, Leisureworld Plaza is one of the premier properties in its market. The center serves Leisure World and its 7,500 senior residents as well as upper Silver Spring, Rockville and Olney, Maryland -- all upper-middle class areas. 

While it was always in the master plan to develop a shopping center in the area, Norman Dreyfuss, executive vice president of IDI, says Leisureworld Plaza is the perfect complement to Leisure World. “The fact that it was built right on campus is a bonus,” he states. “It allowed us to better market the housing project as well as to provide an amenity for the entire community.” About 50 percent of the center’s business is from Leisure World’s residents, and the other half is from the surrounding communities, which includes a growing mix of upscale, single-family homes, condominiums and townhomes. As the neighborhood grows, so does Leisureworld Plaza. 

One of Leisureworld Plaza’s best features is the landscaping. Dreyfuss, one of the owners, insists that the property is always well maintained because it must reflect the standards of the Leisure World community. Large beds of seasonal and perennial flowers adorn entrances.  Clean, well-lit parking and sidewalk areas are bordered by manicured plantings of evergreens, ornamentals and ground covers. 

“The beautiful décor and complementary tenant assortment has consistently attracted a better group of customers to Leisureworld, therefore enabling us to achieve significantly higher rents than the other centers in the market it serves,” says Luger.