This morning Robert Dyer reported that Brookstone in Montgomery Mall will be closing permanently on January 30th (robertdyer.blogspot.com/2018/01/brookstone-to-close-at-westfield.html).
I worked at that Brookstone for about 6 months in the early-2000s. I remember a few of us that worked there would call Sharper Image at the end of the night and tell them that the products at Brookstone were better. Immature, I know, but I was an 18 year old college student trying to pass the time.
According to the @Superdrydc twitter account the British international branded clothing company, Superdry, will open their Montgomery Mall location on May 1st of this year. ”The company’s products include frequently […]
Guess has closed in Montgomery Mall. According to the signage, It’ll be replaced by Altar’d State (a faith based clothing chain with many locations in the south and Midwest).
According to the Maryland Department of Labor, Sears in Montgomery Mall is scheduled to close on March 18th of this year.
The Montgomery Mall location is listed with a ‘1’ Type Code, which means “plant closure.”
Montgomery County Council Member, Roger Berliner, tweeted the following about prepaying property tax in MoCo: “The County issued an update on the property tax prepayment option & the IRS advisory on this matter: bit.ly/2E7UrZK. It is very disappointing. We did what we could. Do consult with your tax adviser before considering prepayments.”
Popular Silver Spring coffee shop, Bump ‘N Grind, is holding the grand opening of their kiosk at Ellsworth Place (formerly City Place Mall). Ellsworth Place is slowly but surely making the right moves.
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They sell mini-burgers (not sliders) using 2.8 ounce patties that are larger than a slider sized patty. Their selling point is variety, and there’s plenty of it. They offer 11 different types of patties, including beef, dry aged beef, Wagyu beef, merguez, Turkey, lamb, chicken, salmon, veggie, Spanish beef, and falafel.
Their disc shaped fries are more like slices of potatoes, but they also provide the option to get sweet potato fries (in the traditional shape), onion rings, or home fries (cubes potatoes tossed in chili sauce and topped with sesame seeds).
If you’ve been to Cabin John Regional Park in the last half century or so you’ve probably seen a bizarre, miniature house-like structure that has a pig face with its mouth wide open on one side. That’s Porky. You can feed him paper and cardboard and soft drink cans, but you can’t feed him bottles or broken glass…glass gives him a tummy ache.
Porky has been there since 1966, making his debut one year after Billy the Litter Eater over at Wheaton Regional Park. “I still have nightmares of my arm getting sucked into this thing” commented Richard Schaffer as he shared a picture of the famous trash dispenser. Creepy Basement, a popular website that is comprised of creepy highlights from across the world, refers to Porky as an “eternally hungry demon pig that commands children to feed him with his creepy 1950s radio voice.”
A local developer is in preliminary talks with Regal Cinemas about bringing them back to Bethesda.
Nancy Shay, an English resource teacher at Richard Montgomery High School in Rockville, has been named the 2017/2018 MCPS teacher of the year by the Marian Greenblatt Education Fund.
Guitar Center opens their second MoCo location at Ellsworth Place in Silver Spring this week (there’s one in Rockville).
After a delay of a few months, Nespresso has opened in Montgomery Mall.
According to several reports, Lakeforest Mall has been defaulting on payments since January. They’re currently in foreclosure. This has happened before with the mall, so it doesn’t necessarily mean that this is […]