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Wheaton Redevelopment

Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Wheaton Redevelopment Update: Developer Choice May Come Soon

The Montgomery County executive has the power to choose the developer.

Update, March 7, 2:30 p.m. The Wheaton redevelopment discussion tentatively scheduled for March 12 will be a closed session. The Montgomery County Council and the executive administration will be discussing real estate issues "that could impact negotiations if the session were public," according to Rob Klein of the Department of General Services. The county has yet to announce a developer for the Park and Planning headquarters building coming to Wheaton's downtown area. The redevelopment plan approved by the council in 2012 envisions a town square and an office building on Lot 13 with ground-floor retail. The Montgomery Planning Department would share the space with county agencies. Update, March 1, 3:45 p.m. The planned discussion about …

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B.F. Saul Withdraws Wheaton Redevelopment Plan (in Wheaton Patch), County Drops Bus Bay Feasibility Study for Wheaton Redevelopment, County Council Focuses Redevelopment on Park & Planning Headquarters (in Wheaton Patch), and 1 more ›

Randall Spadoni

10:29 am on Friday, March 8, 2013

Well, that was an anticlimax. Glass half full: Perhaps it is good for the executive and council to work things out privately before a deal is announced. We don't want more time and effort wasted on another BF Saul. But why did it take an additional two months before the executive could even discuss the deal with the council? From Councilmember Valerie Ervin when the BF Saul deal was announced in …   more ›

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

County Drops Bus Bay Feasibility Study for Wheaton Redevelopment

The Montgomery County Council had allocated money for the study in the FY2013 budget.

Montgomery County government is not going to proceed with a feasibility study for redeveloping the bus bay area in Wheaton, in the triangle between Reedie Drive, Georgia Avenue and Veirs Mill Road. That's what Steve Silverman, director of the Department of Economic Development, told members of the Wheaton Redevelopment Advisory Committee at their January meeting. "We've made a determination at this point to move on," Silverman said. Last year, the Montgomery County Council approved $650,000 for various studies as part of the Wheaton redevelopment package, including the bus bay feasibility study. The study's inclusion in the budget came after the council rejected a proposal for private developer B.F. Saul to build a platform over the bus …

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County Council Focuses Redevelopment on Park & Planning Headquarters (in Wheaton Patch) and B.F. Saul Withdraws Wheaton Redevelopment Plan (in Wheaton Patch)

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Commentous

9:05 pm on Thursday, January 24, 2013

You're right that Wheaton needs a 24-hour presence around Lot 13 for the area to be the centerpiece of redevelopment, but the County already decided against it, instead putting up an agency in which workers will leave as soon as the workday ends. The plan endorsed by WRAC/WUDAC would have placed residents there, which could have provided a significant foot presence in the day AND at night. The …   more ›

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