Giant Food is moving its Peapod distribution center out of Gaithersburg as it makes way for Montgomery County’s new public safety complex, which will include a new police headquarters, liquor control and other entities. The move to a larger warehouse in Anne Arundel County also will set the stage for Peapod’s plans to serve more customers in the Baltimore-Washington region, according to Peapod spokeswoman Elana Margolis. The new warehouse in Hanover is 150,000 square feet, a 50 percent increase in space.

“In the long term, we will serve more [ZIP codes] and our delivery will increase by at least 50 percent,” Margolis said. Peapod already serves much of Northern Virginia, the District and suburban Maryland.