A Germantown business owner is protesting a planned shopping center that would house Montgomery County’s first Wegmans grocery store, saying the big-box development runs counter to the county’s growth plan. Gregory Pringle, who owns a technology firm near the planned Shops at Seneca Meadows, filed a petition asking the Montgomery County Board to reconsider its approval of the 239,000-square-foot development off Interstate 270. The board will take up the petition Thursday. Pringle said the shopping center planned by Minkoff Development Corp. would prevent construction of the Corridor Cities Transitway through the area. The transitway is still under review but could include light rail and bus service.

“We were under the belief it was going to expand out here,” said Pringle, who relocated his business from Rockville in 2002. “There are a lot of promises that don’t seem to be happening.”