08/07/2026
The development team behind the Promenade at Lottsford has tapped Sandlot co-founders Ian Callender (Ian) and Scooty Hallums (unklescooty) to launch one of their temporary event venues on part of the 10-acre site by McCormick Drive and Lottsford Road. It’s an interim step for the Promenade team, a joint venture between Banneker Ventures (Banneker Ventures) and Bright Horizon Ventures, as it readies to break ground next year on its $340 million mixed-use development near the Downtown Largo Metro station.
Sandlot Largo will be about 20,000 square feet and have a capacity of around 800. The partnership is investing about $500,000 to launch the space, which is slated for a soft opening in late August. Its first season will run through the fall and start back up in spring 2027 before shutting down to make way for the Promenade’s anticipated summer 2027 groundbreaking.
That notion of phase zero, or site activation before a project breaks ground, is part of a playbook Sandlot has refined and iterated on many times since it set up its first one in 2019, on a site at 1800 Half St. SW later developed into the Verge apartments in Buzzard Point. The venues, serviced by food trucks, feature recycled shipping containers to repurposed as modular bars, kitchens and restrooms. They’re typically open on weekends and for special events.
Callender and his Sandlot team began pitching Prince George’s County officials, including now-former County Executive Angela Alsobrooks, in 2022 about ways to activate its public spaces, and it was Alsobrooks, now a U.S. senator, who connected him with Robinson and her team. Thanks to Prince George's County Executive Aisha Braveboy , the building permit process was expedited to accommodate for Sandlot’s first “Off-the-Grid” concept where all utilities are independently serviced, satisfying a 100% fully sustainable, standalone project.
It will be Sandlot’s first outpost in suburban Maryland, and it’s a homecoming of sorts for Callender, a DeMatha Catholic High School grad whose first job was working at the BET Soundstage, an entertainment-themed restaurant and live broadcast venue that later became Jasper’s American Grill.
See you soon?
