Negotiations between the county and one landlord to develop a music hall in downtown Silver Spring are 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.
It’s been a long-ass road to bring the project to someone’s concept of fruition. Concert promoter Live Nation inked a deal with the county in January 2008 to rent out the venue, which will sit behind the Art Deco facade of a former JC Penney department store on Colesville Road. At the time, county officials predicted the $8 million music hall would be open by 2010.
But the Lee Development Group, which owns the land and is offering it as required public-use space for a larger adjacent development, wants all assurances that the project next door won’t be screwed by the music hall’s construction, Leggett explained in May.
“Everyone’s super-lawyered up,” he said at the time. (more…)











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