South Silver Spring Retail Space Finds Tenant
By Silver Springer • Nov 21st, 2007 • Category: Arts, Food and Entertainment
Speaking of Promenades, a tenant occupying the ground floor retail space in the Bennington Apartment building will call it just that.
The Promenade Café’s plans are on display inside the Bennington Apartments.
Foulger Pratt, developer of the Silver Spring Metro Center complex recently took over management operations from the Bozzuto Group.
Although residents claim the plans have been on display for a couple of months, this as far as the retail space has come since the Bennington was completed in 2004.
Silver Spring Metro Center Phase V, was the last component of the 1.3 million square foot development started in the early 1990’s. Consisting mostly of office building, the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) leases space there with over 3,000 employees making it Silver Spring’s largest employer.
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Good luck to them. Their location in the middle of a long block of a four-lane highway is about as bad a setup as you can get in an area that dense.
Narrow thinking Lindemann. It is at the bottom of a multi story apartment building, next to NOAA, next to a condo, and across the street from the Blairs. Additionally, there are no less than 3 condo/apartments in a block wide radius. If they concentrate on breakfast food stuff they will do very well. I live near it and hate having to walk to gross Einstein’s and/or Starbucks for anything decent.
no less thank 3 condo/apartments being built I meant
I said “in an area that dense.” There are a lot of people there, but the cafe will not be in a particularly good location to collect them. I live in the Blairs across the street, and thinking of either walking down to Blair Mill to cross with a light or jaywalking at rush hour makes me not want to go there. Unless they’re actually good, in which case I suppose all bets are off.
Does anyone else think that section of town needs to be better connected to the rest of town? Maybe an overpass or two over the tracks would do it… maybe one wide overpass, planted over to feel more like a park… i dunno.. just throwing out ideas… We briefly looked at a condo down there (but then we looked at our savings account.. hahaha) and it really felt disconnected walking all the way down to colesville and around to get back to downtown… Maybe that new building they’re putting up on Ripley can build an overpass instead of another pocket park?
I assume there’ll be a legit pass-through from East-West to Georgia north of their intersection when the Gateway gets done. I do wish there was a bridge over the railroad tracks more towards the center of that incredibly long block, hopefully at the Ripley latitude.
Does anyone know if they have a Web site or anything? It would be nice to know what kind of food they’re planning to offer.
It’s a crummy retail location, and I say that as a Bennington resident. There’s not much foot traffic there and it’s impossible to see anything from the highway. Maybe the NOAA people will generate enough business, if the multitude of existing options in the other four buildings aren’t enough for them already.
@paul: I’ve long thought there need to be more connections between south SS and the rest of SS. I can draw a straight line between the Safeway and my place, yet I have to walk in a huge loop to get there. We need bridges or tunnels across the railroad tracks.
I agree 100% with Paul and Omari. There definitely needs to be some sort of connection to Georgia Ave. There are so many stores and shops over there (Mayorga, Moorenko’s, soon the Hook and Ladder Restaurant etc) and it should take 5 minutes to wakl there if there would be an overpass, but instead it can take 20 min or more. Very frustrating for the consumer, and I’m sure for the business owners. They are missing out on a lot of business.