The Tennessean.com (now in archive) has a write up with unusual positive praise for the Downtown Silver Spring project.
David Dederer, Vice President of LandDesign Inc, “a design, land planning, landscape architecture, civil engineering, surveying and branding services firm” calls Downtown Silver Spring a “Model for Urban Mixed-Use”.
And can you believe he’s actually calling for [...]

Retail, Hotel and Market Commons
Total amount of retail would range between 200,000 and 250,000 square feet with up to three anchors. The current retail center including the Giant would be replaced because of the inefficient use of space. Retail would be at the ground floor of high-rises flanking East-West Highway with [...]

Before certain people start getting their panties in a bunch, it’s not exactly what you think. Evidently all of the CBD zones (or at least Bethesda and Silver Spring) can increase height if work force housing is part of a project using optional method of development (a plan with at least 20% public use space, increased [...]

That’s what I’m sure out of staters are thinking when they cross the Maryland/D.C. line into Silver Spring. The fact is that they can’t tell and who can blame them? To the untrained eye they’re still in some neighborhood in D.C. And why would one be so confused you ask? Well for one there are [...]

Starting where the County left off, another incubator, this time from the private sector opens in Silver Spring.
In an incubator, small business share resources like copiers, receptionists and kitchen space. They get reduced rents, legal counsel, business and marketing help, and build ties with other incubators they share space with.
Very few business incubator space [...]