The Washington Business Journal reports that another Wegmans supermarket is coming to the area, but the force field around our fair city that has kept the grocer beyond the Beltway stubbornly remains in place.

The next store — the seventh in the region — will come to Germantown in 2013, the first in Montgomery County. So far, the Rochester-based supermarket chain has locations in Gainesville, Fairfax, Sterling, Woodbridge, Leesburg and Lanham, the last of which is the closest for most District residents.

Not all hope is lost, though. Earlier this year there were hints that Wegmans might finally make its way inside the Beltway with a spot at the Walter Reed Medical Center, 61 acres of which will be handed over to the District for redevelopment. Sadly, even if Wegmans signed a deal today, we’d be optimistically looking at 2013 or 2014 before we could shop or scarf down some artisanal pizza there.

Soon enough, D.C. Soon enough.