A leap year brings another day at Spirit Voices, a Black History Month exhibit at Gateway Heliport Gallery in downtown Silver Spring.

The exhibit Spirit Voices features ten artists, five of which are from Silver Spring. More pictures from the gallery coming soon.

The County Executive Isiah Leggett invited the Silver Spring Scene for a face to face discussion about the soon to be Fillmore Music hall that will be operated by Live Nation.
Writers from Just Up the Pike and the Silver Spring Peguin were there, along with Gary Stith, Director of Silver Spring Regional Center, and Patrick [...]

Correction to the previous report. The new cafe will be called Pomegranate not Promenade.

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 [...]

Reported first by the Silver Spring Scene last year, by July of next year, Hook and Ladder Brewery and Restaurant should be open for business according Mike Mountain, President.
“Our goal is to open June 1st plus 45 days”
During the Silver Spring Thanksgiving day Parade, Hook and Ladder had all the firehouse garage doors open [...]

In a letter sent to the County Executive Isiah Leggett’s office, Seth Hurwitz presents an offer Montgomery County will find hard to refuse.

It’s My Party Inc (I.M.P.) and Chairman Seth Hurwitz who proclaims himself as a life long resident of Montgomery County states,
“We believe your reputation as a fair-minded decision maker entrusted with carefully [...]

DMV vs. DVM

Looks like WUSA 9, our local CBS station and Gannet subsidiary didn’t get the memo and  failed miserably at trying to figure it out on their own.

Dunkin Doughnuts is all good but this is the one I’ve been waiting for. There’s something new for the taste buds of Silver Spring yet familiar since you could say, it’s from a coastal cousin.

Fractured Prune, an Ocean City, Maryland based doughnut franchise that’s rapidly expanding, has targeted Silver Spring for one of its next [...]

With the close of the furniture store, Bombay Company, Inc, there’s a large vacant retail space now available in the core of Silver Spring’s shopping district.
Fort Worth, Texas based Bombay Company, Inc had 384 stores nationally and internationally as well as online. They filed for bankruptcy in September and are being auctioned to a joint [...]