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South Silver Spring project shrinks its garage

Jennifer Deseo — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:35:18 +0000

A development project planned for Eastern Avenue will offer less parking to future South Silver Spring residents, the county's planning board decided. What's unclear is how the decision will affect current South Silver Spring residents.

Blasting schedule set for Silver Spring transit center site

Jennifer Deseo — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:11:29 +0000

After endless digging and more digging, construction crews at downtown Silver Spring's transit center site will begin blasting at bedrock later this month, county reps announced.

Georgia Ave office building to bolster Fenton Village park

Jennifer Deseo — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 11:00:56 +0000

A development group and the county's planning board agreed to a deal that will shift public space from outside a Georgia Avenue office building to a park in Fenton Village.

County, developer reach agreement on Fillmore music hall

Jennifer Deseo — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:06:26 +0000

Stick a fork in it — negotiations to build a Fillmore music hall in downtown Silver Spring are done. Or as MoCo exec Ike Leggett exclaimed after a town-hall meeting Thursday night, “It’s done, done, done!”

Plans for Woodside skateboard spot to roll forward

Jennifer Deseo — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:33:32 +0000

The county's parks department will construct a skateboard park in the Woodside area, despite some residents' concerns over big crowds and rowdy teens.

Music-hall talks move closer to a deal, Leggett says (again)

Jennifer Deseo — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:37:24 +0000

Negotiations between the county and one landlord to develop a music hall in downtown Silver Spring were close to wrapping, MoCo exec Ike Leggett declared.

Expect an official announcement in about six weeks, Leggett told The Penguin last Saturday at ye olde library's book fest. Exactly what would be announced was unclear.

Transit-center construction included contamination cleanup, county official confesses

Jennifer Deseo — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:32:28 +0000

Here’s the good news: Some of the construction work at Silver Spring’s transit-center site is cooking with oil. The bad news: It had also been cooking with nasty chemicals in the soil.

Crews at the Colesville Road site removed soil tainted with unspecified petrochemicals as part of their excavation work, David Dise, director of the county's general services department, told The Penguin at Saturday's library book fest. Peg that petrol on a fuel storage facility that Dise said was on that site back in the day.

Leggett unveils design for new downtown library

Jennifer Deseo — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:30:32 +0000

After months of public meetings and debate, MoCo exec Ike Leggett finally revealed exterior designs for downtown Silver Spring's new library.

"This will be a monument to the community," he declared Saturday at a book festival inside ye olde library on Colesville Road.

The glass and limestone building will sit at the southwest corner of Wayne Avenue and Fenton Street, with a section hanging over a possible Purple Line light rail station. Access to the library's third floor entrance will be at either Wayne Avenue or along Fenton Street, where escalators and stairs will be installed.

So you’ve got a civic building in the works. Now what?

Jennifer Deseo — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:44:33 +0000

An email circulating the interwebs asks Silver Spring's civic associations how they'd like to rock downtown's new civic building.

Skateboard spot proposed for Woodside park

Jennifer Deseo — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:16:21 +0000

MoCo's planners propose to throw down a temporary skateboarding spot just north of Silver Spring's central business district, they announced Friday afternoon.