WRS, Inc. has submitted Schematic Development Plan application SDP-9736-2024 proposing to redevelop the existing Lakeforest Mall property with 1,600 residential units, 750,000 square feet of employment uses, 250,000 square feet of large format retail, and 220,000 square feet of commercial uses, per the City of Gaithersburg website.
Below you’ll see a list of recently opened, closed and coming soon tenants to the Kentlands neighborhood in Gaithersburg:
NFL Free Agency unofficially opened at noon today, and the Washington Commanders have plenty of money to spend. The team also have the second pick in the 2024 NFL Draft next month and nobody is sure on who the Commanders will take, with the pick likely being a quarterback. Below is a list of odds on who the #2 pick will be, courtesy of the betting website DraftKings:
The Board is composed of eight members: five elected members, each of whom resides in a different board of education district; two elected at-large members, and one student member. With the exception of the student member, all Board members must be registered voters of Montgomery County and may not be subject to the authority of the Board.
Montgomery County native Steven Rales won an Oscar for Best Live-Action Short Film as producer of the film, “The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar.” Rales was born in Bethesda in 1951. He founded Danaher Corporation in 1984 with his brother Mitchell Rales (part owner of the Washington Commanders and founder of Glenstone), where Steven Rales is chairman of the board.
A fallen tree has closed MacArthur Blvd. closed between Picasso Ln. and Belfast Rd. Drivers are advised to seek an alternate route and significant delays are expected. The tree fell earlier in the day on Sunday.
Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Services (MCFRS) responded to a call for a 75′ tall tree that fell into a house on the 4200 block of Thornapple St., between Oak Ridge Ave. and Maple Ave., in Chevy Chase on Sunday morning.
The National Cherry Blossom Festival returns from Wednesday, March 20, 2024 – Sunday, April 14, 2024. It’s planned to coincide as closely as possible with the blooming of the trees. The National Park Service (NPS) has predicted peak bloom for the DC area Cherry Blossoms to fall this year between March 23-26.
Natalie Jasmine Harris is a Black, queer filmmaker who is a native of Montgomery County, MD (Silver Spring). Her film, Grace, was selected for the 2024 Sundance Film Festival. According to a kickstarter for the finishing funds of the movie, it is described as “A Black Southern Gothic narrative short film set in the 1950s about a young girl named Grace coming into her womanhood and sexuality.”
Pizza Hut is returning to the Briggs Chaney Shopping Center, opening a new location at the Briggs Chaney Center (13884 Old Columbia Pike). The pizza chain previously had a larger, freestanding location in the shopping center for many years before it closed in 2017. The building was demolished and a new Popeyes restaurant opened in its place in 2021.
Paris Baguette, “the neighborhood bakery café where communities come together over expertly crafted baked and brewed goods”, will be opening a Bethesda location on the the ground floor of the new Sophia Bethesda Apartments at 4924 St. Elmo Ave.