Comments on: Ripley residential project rolls forward http://silverspringpenguin.com/2008/09/22/development-85/ Your neighborhood news source Tue, 24 Aug 2010 18:23:16 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Woodsider http://silverspringpenguin.com/2008/09/22/development-85/comment-page-1/#comment-17163 Woodsider Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:11:08 +0000 http://silverspringpenguin.com/?p=2835#comment-17163 You're the editor...you can editorialize all day long :) You’re the editor…you can editorialize all day long :)

]]> By: Jennifer Deseo http://silverspringpenguin.com/2008/09/22/development-85/comment-page-1/#comment-17160 Jennifer Deseo Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:11:14 +0000 http://silverspringpenguin.com/?p=2835#comment-17160 Thanks for your comment, Woodsider. According to Elsa Hizel McCoy, with the planning department's development-review division, last Thursday's look at this project was "the final step in the review process". I'll add this to the article to clarify. And a late 2009 start date on construction? That <em>is</em> any ... day ... now. (Okay, I'm editorializing. Will fix.) Thanks for your comment, Woodsider.

According to Elsa Hizel McCoy, with the planning department’s development-review division, last Thursday’s look at this project was “the final step in the review process”. I’ll add this to the article to clarify.

And a late 2009 start date on construction? That is any … day … now. (Okay, I’m editorializing. Will fix.)

]]> By: Woodsider http://silverspringpenguin.com/2008/09/22/development-85/comment-page-1/#comment-17156 Woodsider Wed, 24 Sep 2008 16:10:59 +0000 http://silverspringpenguin.com/?p=2835#comment-17156 The article in the Gazette today said this project now moves toward final design and engineering and construction is expected to start late next year (not any...day...now). You might be confusing the immediate construction with 1050 Ripley Street that has already cleared their site: http://www.mc-mncppc.org/silverspring/private_projects/1050_ripley_st.shtm The article in the Gazette today said this project now moves toward final design and engineering and construction is expected to start late next year (not any…day…now). You might be confusing the immediate construction with 1050 Ripley Street that has already cleared their site: http://www.mc-mncppc.org/silverspring/private_projects/1050_ripley_st.shtm

]]> By: Mike http://silverspringpenguin.com/2008/09/22/development-85/comment-page-1/#comment-17138 Mike Wed, 24 Sep 2008 03:48:29 +0000 http://silverspringpenguin.com/?p=2835#comment-17138 They're doing so much residential development, but yet why are they having such a hard time with building more office towers to balance out the "expected" residential population growth? They’re doing so much residential development, but yet why are they having such a hard time with building more office towers to balance out the “expected” residential population growth?

]]> By: Woodsider http://silverspringpenguin.com/2008/09/22/development-85/comment-page-1/#comment-17092 Woodsider Tue, 23 Sep 2008 02:09:20 +0000 http://silverspringpenguin.com/?p=2835#comment-17092 Between this project, the one directly across the street and the SS Transit center, there will be a ton of cranes looming over that side of downtown for quite a while! I really hope that with this dense concentration of housing right in DTSS that the West side of Georgia will start to re-develop with quality retail, services & restaurants. Maybe we'll finally get a CVS over there. Does anyone know if there are any planned pedestrian crossings over the tracks to connect the housing/offices along East-West Highway and the Ripley District? It sure would make things vastly more accessable. Between this project, the one directly across the street and the SS Transit center, there will be a ton of cranes looming over that side of downtown for quite a while! I really hope that with this dense concentration of housing right in DTSS that the West side of Georgia will start to re-develop with quality retail, services & restaurants. Maybe we’ll finally get a CVS over there. Does anyone know if there are any planned pedestrian crossings over the tracks to connect the housing/offices along East-West Highway and the Ripley District? It sure would make things vastly more accessable.

]]> By: David http://silverspringpenguin.com/2008/09/22/development-85/comment-page-1/#comment-17088 David Tue, 23 Sep 2008 01:06:53 +0000 http://silverspringpenguin.com/?p=2835#comment-17088 So who's in charge of naming the streets in Montgomery County and how would one influence this process? I myself like "Ripfant Street." Do I have a second? So who’s in charge of naming the streets in Montgomery County and how would one influence this process? I myself like “Ripfant Street.” Do I have a second?

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