Is a Royal Farms Coming to Perry Hall?

For weeks, the fate of the former along the 9600 block of Belair Road, was a mystery.

"We didn't know it was closing until the day of," said Kristen Green, director of , across the parking lot from the stripped gas station.

Business owners have speculated about its replacement. "We've heard that it's going to be a Royal Farms or the ," Green said. 

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A representative for Continental Realty Corporation, which owns the Brick Bodies Square shopping center, confirmed that a Royal Farms gas station and convenience store is planned to replace the BP, although the representative declined to be identified and said she had no information on when it was expected to open.

Calls for comment to the corporate offices of Royal Farms, a Baltimore-based company, were not returned as of Monday afternoon.