Details have been revealed on the Colesville Road Hilton/Hampton Inn/Homewood Suites. Above are two images from the Montgomery County Park and Planning Site Plan Review, showing the before and after of the transformation that is to take place.
The 8728 Colesville Road is an unoccupied 60’s era office building also known as the Jemal building. The [...]

152 reports later, it’s been a full year since the Silver Spring Scene’s inception. With no other media sources covering prominent issues in depth with opinionated content, the Silver Spring Scene is an original blog that was started out of a passion and concern for Silver Spring, Maryland, an area with unrealized potential that is [...]

I thought I should tag along on this one…At the request of the good people that brought you Silver SprUng and Downtown Silver Spring (Peterson Cos.), as well as the Silver Spring Regional Center, The Washington Post, and the Greater Silver Spring Chamber of Commerce, presenting the Silver Spring Restaurant Week!
Try many of the [...]

â–º Parking Lot District goes meter crazy in South Silver Spring. According to the South Silver Spring Neighborhood Association message board, Montgomery County Department of Public Works and Transportation (DPWT) has begun installing parking meters on both sides of 13th street from the intersection at Kennett all the way to the D.C. line and in [...]

For the 3rd quarter of 2006 the office vacancy stayed low at 4.10% according to the CB Richard Ellis market report. Out of all primary submarkets in the D.C. area, the downtown area of Silver Spring continued the highest occupancy rate and a dearth of new deliveries. Even lower was the North Silver Spring/Route 29 [...]

Below is a message from Mike Diegel, the president of the Allied Civic Association, a group of people who represent Montgomery County civic and community groups.
Happy New Year, all,It’s been a while since I sent anything out to the Allied list, and it’s past time. As many of you know, there’s an effort, begun by [...]

In a previous article the Silver Spring Scene discussed the 60s era office building that unexpectedly received the “the kiss of death” or better known as the MC-MNCPPC (park and planning) development review signs. The planned development calls for a mixed use project of office, residential and retail.
It was thought that the existing building would [...]

Get the name right.
Found this in an elevator.
How sad! This is really inexcusable, not only did they get the name wrong they got the zip code wrong too! It reveals itself as some kind of joke but if the state government can’t get it right is there any hope?

► Gateway’s Heliport Gallery is featured in the Gazette. The Silver Spring public and FREE art galley has had well over 1,000 people walk through the doors since opening in 2005. Have you made the trip?
â–º Come to a Town Hall Meeting with County Executive Isiah Leggett. Wednesday January 24, 2007 at 7:30 p.m. at [...]

On Monday the Silver Spring Scene looked into the U.S. Census Bureau’s state ranking table for median household income. Maryland was ranked 2nd in the nation very close behind New Jeresy to the point of being arguable. Today the Silver Spring Scene will take a closer look at the census data for the Silver Spring [...]