I hate to push the corporate advertising in your face (unless they’re a nice locally based neighbor) but I couldn’t resist because this is pretty cool in my humble opinion. I love cars so I was quite surprised to get this e-mail. Didn’t think Silver Spring would host anything remotely close to its own car [...]

JBG Companies has dropped the “Silver Spring Gateway” name in favor of calling the project “The Veridian Apartments“. “The Veridian Apartments at Silver Spring Metro” to be exact.

Discovery IPO
It looks like we’ll have to wait a little longer to get a piece of the Discovery pie, as their IPO has been delayed to the third quarter of 2008. Anyone wants to guess how much the pricing per share will be? First quarter revenue for Discovery Communications jumped 12% to $795million.

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Kettler (formally KSI, Inc) has given into the slowdown taking a toll on the inflated residential market. Nationwide residential sales are down but there’s still hope left for the residential project that Kettler had planned for Silver Spring since 2004.

The Silver Spring project dubbed Midtown Silver Spring was planned to be part of Kettler’s Midtown brand of [...]

While developers are making high risk investments by plopping office buildings in continually high vacancy submarkets in the region, Silver Spring’s continues to be healthy and the direct vacancy actually edged down in the 1st quarter of 2008.
The direct vacancy fell from 5.7% in the fourth quarter of 2007 to 5.2% in the 1st quarter of [...]

To all those calling Ellsworth drive in the Downtown Silver Spring Project “Disney land” you’ll be pleasantly surprised when you see Bethesda Lane. Let me start off by saying that in my opinion I think Bethesda Lane looks great, above average architectural detail for this area and lacking any blank walls. But one could argue [...]

I found this post very interesting and have been meaning to compile the data myself but here it is…it shows several counties around the United States that are of similar size in population to Montgomery County and their respective budgets.

To be fair some of these don’t include the county’s school budget (I believe Fairfax County does). [...]

2nd Annual South Silver Spring Block Party coming soon

The South Silver Spring Neighborhood Association’s 2nd Annual Block Party will be held on Sunday, June 8th from 11am-5pm. The event will showcase the best of our community with festivities of interest for all ages and families including:

Over 15 live music acts
80 arts and crafts vendors
Children’s activities [...]

Cameron House is a high-rise residential buildng that’s taking the place of the demolished St.Charles Apartments. The project is being developed by Behringer Harvard, Brookfield Real Estate and Fairfeild Realty. At a cost of close to $100 million, the 325 unit, 15 story highrise will have over 7,000 square feet of ground floor retail and is being marketed as luxury apartments.