They have signed franchise agreements in New markets in Kansas, North Carolina, and South Carolina, and will open more locations in current markets such as Virginia and Florida.
Their first location came in Bethesda in 1995 on Cordell Avenue. Their headquarters are in Rockville/Potomac.
David Leavy, the chief corporate operations and communications officer for Discovery Communications, told Bezos that he should not consider Discovery’s decision to move as a knock against Maryland. “I’m happy to champion Montgomery County whether it’s to Amazon or anybody else.” Leavy said.
The article also states that the former White Flint location is believed to be among the prospective sites. Leavy does not think that MoCo included the old Discovery space in their bid.
The MoCoShow and MoCoSnow will be teaming up with Koa Sports to host a “Best Shooter in MoCo Competition” on Saturday, March 24th at 4pm.
We will have 3 different age groups:
The image below shows part of Gaithersburg and Montgomery Village as they looked in 1964 (year of photo has been confirmed.) The labels show what the roads are currently named.
Photo courtesy of Suzy Deppa via Bruce Deppa
Late last night, after his performance, he tweeted an image of the written message he performed.
Bloomberg L.P.’s Tyler Cowen writes about the differences between the three D.C. area finalists (Washington D.C., Northern Virginia, and Montgomery County, mentioning Silver Spring and White Flint as examples of potential landing spots for the new Amazon headquarters.
He notes that even though the distance between NoVa and D.C. is similar to the distance between MoCo and D.C., the commute is made much easier by the public transit available in MoCo.
ontgomery County was announced as one of the 20 finalists for the second Amazon headquarters.
This morning Amazon announced that it narrowed the list of potential locations for its second headquarters to 20 areas. Before today there were 238 proposals, so making it to the final 20 is a big step for MoCo.
The images below, courtesy of MCDOT, show a glimpse of what’s to come in Wheaton.
A water main break on Washingtonian Blvd. in Rio closed the road in one direction earlier today.
It will be replaced by Anthropologie, a clothing store that sells boho-chic womenswear, shoes, accessories, wedding attire, and home decor. Anthropologie plans to open this Fall.
“Today I am announcing plans for a new Discovery global real estate strategy and footprint.
Chief among these changes, we have made the decision to move our global headquarters to New York City. We have therefore made the difficult decision to reduce our footprint in Maryland over time, with the ultimate closure and sale of our One Discovery Place headquarters building in Silver Spring, expected in 2019.”