Thursday, March 8, 2012
The Associated Builders and Contractors of Metropolitan Washington met for its monthly meeting in Rockville on Wednesday.
White Flint Mall in North Bethesda will be unrecognizable in a few years after the Lerner Corp. is finished redeveloping it, said Francine Waters, senior director of transportation for the corporation. Waters spoke as a member of a panel which discussed development plans for the Rockville Pike corridor during the Associated Builders and Contractors of Metropolitan Washington monthly meeting on Wednesday. The 45-acre mall will become a mixed-use megaspace with residential units, commercial offices, anchored by upscale stores like Lord and Taylor. "We are creating a new city...What you see today will not be there. There will be no mall," Waters told the group. "The actual property itself will look entirely different." Rod Lawrence, who …
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Developers want to opt out of city requirements due to site's proximity to Metro.
Raising concerns about parking and about the consequences high-rises stretching to 150 feet, Rockville residents weighed in on the proposed Twinbrook Metro Place development at Monday's City Council meeting. Twinbrook Partners LLC has submitted plans to replace the existing one-story retail strip center at 1592 Rockville Pike, which is home to Fuddruckers and other businesses, with a mixed-use development containing high-rise apartments, a 190-room hotel and 162,000 square feet of office space. In order to complete this project, the developers have asked for waivers to parking requirements, building height limits and road width requirements. The goal is to create “a vibrant urban development with a pedestrian feel” said C. Robert Dalrymple…
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
GAO: A new 15-year lease of the Parklawn Building was properly evaluated.
Twinbrook’s future as a hub for federal facilities will get its second boost in three days as JBG Companies breaks ground on the new National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases building on Fishers Lane on Wednesday morning. On Monday, the U.S. Government Accountability Office denied the final protests of three developers seeking to move the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services out of the Parklawn Building, The Washington Post reported. In March, the U.S. General Services Administration awarded a $450 million, 15-year lease to JBG to keep HHS and its 3,000 employees in the building on Fishers Lane near the Twinbrook Metro station. The developer is spending $270 million to renovate 932,391 square feet of office space in the…
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Berliner: 'We simply must do better' than the proposal for Pike Center.
County Councilman Roger Berliner is vowing to block a Wal-Mart proposed for the Pike Center, saying the store is a bad fit for Rockville Pike. Berliner (D-Dist. 1) of Potomac stated his opposition to the store in a letter sent Monday to Chevy Chase-based JBG Rosenfeld. (The letter can be found in the PDF at the right of this article.) The developer is seeking to build an 80,000-square-foot Wal-Mart at the retail center between Twinbrook Parkway and Randolph Road. JBG reportedly plans to request that the site be rezoned from commercial to mixed-use in 2013 in order to allow 200 to 250 apartments to be built there. “I remain deeply concerned that your proposed development of the site with an 80,000 square foot single story Walmart 1500 feet …
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
With one federal tenant in a holding pattern, another signs on.
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases will bring a projected 2,000 workers to a new 491,000-square-foot building on Fishers Lane in Twinbrook, under a lease signed by the U.S. General Services Administration. For some, the lease, announced last month, represents a boon to Twinbrook, which has been gaining federal tenants in fits and stops over the past few months. “I think it’s very good for the neighborhood,” said Joe McClane, president of the Cambridge Walk II Homeowners Association in Twinbrook. Chevy Chase-based JBG Companies will construct and lease the 10-story office at 5601 Fishers Lane, near where NIAID already has 150,000 square feet of laboratory space. The NIAID building will back onto the Parklawn Memorial…
Thursday, July 7, 2011
Fire spokesman: Leak occurred at an unoccupied home. No injuries reported.
Several homes in the Twinbrook neighborhood of Rockville were evacuated as county fire units investigated a natural gas leak on Thursday night. County fire and rescue received a call around 9:30 p.m. for the odor of gas in an unoccupied home at 5703 Stillwell Road, said Capt. Oscar Garcia, a county fire and rescue service spokesman. Firefighters detected a natural gas leak at the home and called for additional units to help check neighboring residences. They included an unoccupied home at 5701 Stillwell Road and a home with two occupants at 5705 Stillwell Road, which was one of about five homes evacuated on Stillwell and Denfield roads, Garcia said. “So far [there is] no gas reading in any of the houses except the initial house—5703 […
Brigitta Mullican
9:55 am on Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Sad but true the public does not always get the accurate information. I try following the facts, but hear people criticize and make faults statements just to get others excited. Public officials need to be accurate and get all the facts before making a decision. Many times it is politics that dictates the outcome and not what is best for the whole community. more ›