
After years of design charrettes and lengthy discussion about how the new Silver Spring Library should look and function, the County's Department of General Services presented final drawings at a meeting last Saturday...

Supporters of a pedestrian bridge between the Silver Spring Library and the Wayne Avenue Garage are holding out hope that it'll still get built.Not surprisingly, parking and access were the biggest concerns local residents had about the new library...

Seven stories high, the library complex throws together retail, offices, an art gallery, a coffee bar, a park and a Purple Line stop, with some books thrown in for good measure.With 65,000 square feet of space used by the public, the new library at Wayne Avenue and Fenton Street would be the...

part THREE of a series about new development proposals in Calverton and Hyattsville by Percontee.Percontee is one of several companies owned by the Gudelsky family, once one of the region's largest developers...

Come by tomorrow for an update on the new Silver Spring Library. In the meantime, if you missed it last week, check out these photos of the shuttered City Place 10 theatre. Anyway:- The Blockbuster in the Burtonsville Crossing shopping center will close in January, says the Gazette...

- Join Jerry McCoy of the Silver Spring Historical Society for their monthly tour of historic Georgia Avenue...

East County doesn't have a boulevard of broken dreams, but it's seen more than a few big ideas fall flat on their faces. The latest and perhaps most elusive big idea has been LifeSci Village, a new community of offices and research facilities, homes and shops in Calverton...

The last time I visited the AMC City Place 10 was in 1999, on a sixth-grade field trip to see Baby Geniuses (educational, right?)...

part ONE of a series about new development proposals in Calverton and Hyattsville by Percontee.Percontee's conference room, located deep within an office park off Tech Road, doesn't inspire at first. Its walls are covered in the yellowing photos of buildings finished years ago...

- The Department of Parks is holding a community meeting to discuss a temporary skate spot that'll be built in Woodside Park this winter...

1) Unofficial "mayor of Silver Spring" Susan Hoffmann (above) lost her bid for re-election as official Mayor of Rockville to seventy-four-year-old Phyllis Marcuccio by just four hundred votes...

The first thing you do when you buy a house is see if it will fit on your boat. (This is if you have made the correct choice to buy a boat first.) The second thing is to make sure your house is seaworthy.This is on Veirs Mill Road near Randolph Road.

- Colesville and a town in Ohio have switched names, according to Google Maps. The Canton Repository reported last week that their town was appearing as "Colesville" on the map website, which updated their symbols and place designations last week...

I've always loved the "Telluride-Inspired Townhomes" Ruppert O'Brien built in the Aspen Ridge and Albany Grove developments off Briggs Chaney Road, which are nearing completion three years after construction started...









