D.C.’s lack of choice when it comes to gourmet grocery stores may be coming to an end, although not everything is panning out as planned.

A long hoped-for Whole Foods Market on 14th Street in Columbia Heights seems all but dead. “We have no immediate plans for that location,” Sarah Kenney, Whole Foods Market, director of marketing for the mid-Atlantic Region tells DCist.

Over a year ago, Whole Foods signed a Letter Of Intent (LOI) on the space at 3200 14th Street, NW. A LOI is real estate speak for documenting a firm’s interest in the property. Kenney compares it to “asking someone out for a date.” However, some folks have taken it so seriously, you would think it was a marriage license, she says.