Both will be replaced by a small TD Bank building, with drive-thru facilities. As I reported ten days ago, the closure of this station leaves only 4 places to buy gas in downtown Bethesda. One of those, the Sunoco at Battery Lane and Wisconsin Avenue, is slated for redevelopment in the coming years, as well.
#rethinkTD - let's boycott TD Bank for this atrocious use of space in a growing downtown area so close to mass transit!
ReplyDelete#RethinkTDBank! What a waste of prime real estate. Doesn't even have to be a high rise building, but anything more than a single story bank with surface parking and a drive thru.
ReplyDeleteI will never bank with TD.
The Christopher Condos should be ashamed to have support this waste of space. The planning board and council should make sure that such a waste will not be approved in the future.
#RethinkTDBank
ReplyDeleteI used to love them but now they are on my poop list. What a waste. Spreading the word among my millenial peers to boycott TD Bank.
#rethinktdbank!!!!!!! Never using TD Bank again. Going to cancel my account this weekend.
ReplyDelete#RethinkTDBank The only thing we need less than a mural of NY is another bank.
ReplyDeleteDitch the brick and mortar. Ally.com and capitalone360.com. Great interest rates!
#RethinkTDBank!!!!!!!!!!!!!! No more supporting this bank that doesn't support our community. Boooo to this project.
ReplyDelete#rethinkTDbank
ReplyDeleteLet's start a movement to stop using TD Bank
#RethinkTDBank
ReplyDeleteTD Bank Racism: http://www.recordonline.com/article/20150617/NEWS/150619395
TD Bank not securing website: http://money.cnn.com/2015/06/23/technology/bank-websites-encryption/
TD Bank Aiding Ponzi Scheme: http://www.bizjournals.com/southflorida/print-edition/2012/05/25/controversial-td-bank-form-was-clear.html?page=all
Glad to see the gas station get redeveloped, but this new tiny building is atrocious. Everyone knows it's just going to end up in a landfill within the decade; what a waste. Just build the highrise with ground floor TD bank now, instead.
ReplyDeleteYes!!! I'm saddened it'll be decades before this space gets used to its potential when the demand is there now.
DeleteFarewell Crown. Not the most convenient location for getting gas, but a cool old school station that made a great contrast with the bland high rises around it.
ReplyDeleteExpensive gas, but it took Giant gas points.
ReplyDeleteDoes anyone know why the landowner wants to wait to redevelop? If they'd been ready to go, they surely would have gotten high density zoning in the new plan. How will it be more profitable to wait?
ReplyDeleteWho is the landowner?
DeleteCan you help and ask? You seem to have a lot of connections.
DeleteListen the reason this bank NEEDS to be built here is because the next closes bank is very far away. According to google maps, yep, I am right the next bank is(cough) across the street(cough). Never mind nothing to see here, carry on.
ReplyDeleteAs much as I hate banks, I'd rather have one than a smelly old gas station with street people buying candy and cigarettes and demanding to wash your windshield at all hours.
ReplyDelete#rethinktdbank
ReplyDeleteI thought they were going to do one at the old BP on Wisconsin too?
Glossy magazine: June 25, 6:12 PM
ReplyDeleteDyer: June 26, "7:00 AM" [10:00 AM EDT]
Advantage: Glossy magazine
"Anonymous said...
ReplyDeleteAs much as I hate banks, I'd rather have one than a smelly old gas station with street people buying candy and cigarettes and demanding to wash your windshield at all hours.
5:46 PM"
Sounds like they're trying to support the local economy, so props for that. We just need to help them move from cigarettes to gum.
As gas stations disappear, so do places where one can by cigarettes. Interesting side-effect.
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