In 1992 City Place Mall opened its doors to waiting patrons and news cameras. A new space integrated with the old Hecht?s building, it featured one of the strongest art deco facades in Silver Spring and defining architecture from the late 80s ? early 90s.

There’s some blogging on the Washington Post by Marc Fisher saying that County Executive Leggett wants a speedy pass on the on the Falkland Chase issue, in support of the development.
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Bethesda next for Wi-Fi
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While I support a music hall coming to Silver Spring in the hopes that it will boost its economic condition and allow it to stand tall and proud in this competitive region, as well as nationally, but if their simply going to dump the bread crumbs all year round than I think it’s going to fall short of expectations.

When Borders book store first opened it was nice place to go, meet up with friends and be able to pick from a diverse selection, now you can find about as much to purchase on dressing up a book as finding a book to read. But it’s not enough to keep Silver Springers away.

100′feet wide but only 16′feet for the public, according to the Action Committee for Transit the Capital Crescent Trail is being used “rent free” by the Columbia Country Club.

It’s the age-old question; should Silver Spring become an incorporated city, town, or whatever? One with a mayor and its own local government? The bigger question is what would be the point? Furthermore would it have a negative or positive impact on Silver Spring?

You’ll just have to wait. A night of countless presentations and testimonies didn’t bring a verdict to the fate of two issues in contradiction. The decision on whether the 1938 Falkland Apartments, North Parcel would be spared from the wrecking ball or if developer Home Properties would be able to move forward and build the largest residential project in Silver Spring in recent times, was left open ended as the planning board takes more time to sort it all out.

Chalk another one up for the locally based shops in the Downtown Silver Spring project. Perhaps I’m really, really late on this since they claim they’ve been open since November and if so I apologize in advance but I couldn’t find any info on the other blogs.
Isn’t it great to see more small businesses like [...]

At the cost of only $12 million the Chelsea School has single handedly accomplished what the County couldn’t. Despite a hefty design competition calling architectural firms from around the country, the County still couldn’t pull off something as magnificent as what the Chelsea School (not too far down Ellsworth) has managed to scrap together. I [...]

Cause that’s the bulk of what we’re getting. The residential inundation continues in downtown Silver Spring and the latest participant is Washington Property Company and their 1050 Ripley Street. Despite the heavy market downturn and a tsunami of residential/apartment construction, the developer is still moving forward. In fact, On July 3rd, 2008, Washington Property Co [...]