Here's the interesting part - the equipment and permit are for Bridges Fitness and Yoga, which was supposed to be opening in the historic U.S. Post Office across the street last fall. Hmm.
Monday, January 04, 2016
What's going on in the old Bubbles space on Wisconsin Avenue? (Photos)
Here's the interesting part - the equipment and permit are for Bridges Fitness and Yoga, which was supposed to be opening in the historic U.S. Post Office across the street last fall. Hmm.
Thanks for the info. Doesn't look like much progress was being made on the old post office.
ReplyDeleteInteresting. Maybe they decided to change spots? What did the landlord or gym reps say when you reached out for comment?
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ReplyDeleteThanks for the answer. Careful though, Dyer may take down your link (even though it answers his own question that he didn't follow up on)
Delete6:58: True, nothing personal. I actually broke the story.
DeleteI don't quite get the idea of people who prefer old news warmed up to breaking news. But that microwave's been beeping all week.
DeleteSo you raised the question and someone answered it. And you delete their answer. Hahahahahhahha
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DeleteWhat was wrong with that comment? The fact I mentioned BM is the one that provided an answer to your question?
Delete11:37: My article answered it 2 days earlier. A "pop-up" by definition doesn't require construction and alterations. They've clearly changed plans. Give me credit where credit is due for tracking this story down. Unless you prefer *Beep beep beep* Reheated News - Even better than fresh!
DeleteYour own article title asks what is going on, implying you don't know.
DeleteThe magazine that shall not be named asked your question to the proprietor and that's the official answer. If you don't believe them that's one thing. But to delete a comment with a link to an answer to your very own question is just spiteful and unethical.
Would you delete a link to a Washington Post article that answered a question you asked in your blog post?
ReplyDelete3:30: Sorry, just laughing hysterically thinking about the last time the Washington Post ever reported any hyperlocal news about Bethesda. They never even covered it when they had a full blown Montgomery County bureau, much less now. "ROFL"
Deleteit's asinine you remove posts with links providing information to your readers. That is censorship at is best! Birdbrain!
ReplyDeleteI agree. Dyer just deletes anything he wants on his own site. Sure he's allowed but it shows how he can't be trusted as a person much less a journalist much less a public official.
DeleteYes you broke the news but the other news source answered your own question about what's going on in relation to the post office spot.
ReplyDeleteSo it's strange that you would delete the link to the answer to your own question.
7:42: Not any more strange than them not citing my earlier report as the source. The "official" explanation kind of reminds me of the Pizza Pass report. Turned out my earlier report was the accurate one. Critical thinking is a must in journalism. Politics, inside baseball, and ideology can take you only so far.
DeleteYou are so weird. Your entire post was about the "mystery" and "what's going on"
Delete8:20: So rather than build out the Post Office they were supposed to have opened in last fall, they're leaving that sit while paying rent on it, and building out another space at additional rent, time and expense across the street? Does that make sense to you? Mystery, indeed. Give me credit where credit is due.
DeleteI mean that's what your post says "what's going on"?
DeleteI'll read it in Bethesda Magazine... a few months from now in my dentist's waiting room.
ReplyDeleteWill the yoga studio buy enough Magazine advertising to receive a "Best of Bethesda" award?
8:28: Pass me the Car and Driver while you're at it.
DeleteYou have a picture of a posted building permit.
DeleteMore proof that Dyer doesn't seek answers. Just publicity.
ReplyDeleteThis is not someone I would want running our government.
Delete5:08: You just described Hans Riemer. Now 6:04 must dutifully say, "Hans Riemer is not someone I would want running our government."
DeleteIn pretty sure I'm 6:04 and I was talking about Robert Dyer. :)
DeleteGuess the people spoke and elected Riemer and not Dyer.
Delete7:44: There's Riemer on Fox5 posing as Man of the People, when he's actually defending the same County liquor monopoly as the County flyers! That's why he got elected - low information voters and an obsequious local media.
DeleteOkay I used to side with Robert once in a while but now I have lost all respect. This blog post posed the question of what's going on and another site answered the question. These deletions have gotten to be simply for callous personal reasons and there is no hiding behind comment policy violations anymore. Sorry Robert, you have lost a loyal reader and supporter on this one.
ReplyDeleteSame. I have lost all respect for Dyer with this. Deleting posts for vindictive and shallow reasons. The commenter was answering your question with an outside source. That's just wrong to delete. I cannot support Dyer any longer.
Delete11:32/2:08: And you haven't lost respect for the "other website" for stealing a story without citing my original article?
DeleteIf you think deleting spam links designed to divert traffic to competing websites is unusual, you must have been under a rock since the 90s. Spamming is a common violation of website policies.
How do you know they stole it? They could have walked by the sign just the same as you. Sure you were first but that's not proof of stealing.
Delete4:35: There is no sign.
DeleteIs Aaron still in the trees on the BCC campus tonight? He was spotted there earlier with a camera.
ReplyDeleteAaron, please come down. You're creeping out the students!
What does that even mean?
DeleteI have to say I agree with some of these other readers. Any respect or good will Robert Dyer earned is all gone now. This is just silly now. Vindictive. Childish. Etc.
ReplyDelete9:56: I'm laughing at one guy trying to post under multiple personalities to appear that there is a mutiny going on. The desperate lengths people will go to - it's just ridiculous.
ReplyDelete"Anger and victimization over the loss of absolute power to control your message." - Jon Stewart
And one supposes you have proof of that as well. Lol.
Delete7:55: Yeah, and we still don't have a credible answer to that question. I think my analysis in this article is as close as we're going to get for the moment.
ReplyDelete7:54: That's a permit, not a sign.
ReplyDeletePlaying a game of semantics now are we. Good for you. Good for you.
Delete*Beep beep beep* You can always go elsewhere for reheated, rewritten versions of my stories, if semantics are too challenging for you. #BabaBooey
Delete7:00 PM [b] Robert Dyer said...
ReplyDelete8:20: So rather than build out the Post Office they were supposed to have opened in last fall, they're leaving that sit while paying rent on it, and building out another space at additional rent, time and expense across the street? Does that make sense to you? Mystery, indeed. Give me credit where credit is due.[/b]
It makes perfect sense to me. These are the types of desperate measures that small business in the County must undertake due to Hans Reimer and the failure of the Nighttime Economy Initiative.
True, Bill, true. We need a new County Council - FAST.
DeleteRobert - you should run! I like a lot of your ideas.
Delete5:34: Stay tuned.
DeleteHe won't win. Not with the way he treats people and ideas that aren't inline with his.
Delete9:21am you do know George Leventhal acts like a total jerk with County staff who aren't "in line" with his ideas,right? The Post has reported extensively on his bad behavior.
DeleteGood, with "so many" of you being done with Robert and the blog, the trash talk should lessen a bit. :wink:
ReplyDeleteYou know, with ALL the different dissenting posters. Yeah, they're all separate people, yeah...that's it.
I have a vision of a guy surrounded by monitors sliding his chair from keyboard to keyboard to argue with himself. Hahahaha. Great image for a dreary Thursday. Thanks!
It's the same with the Dyer supporters. Just as many people.
Delete9:21: Nope - I've actually been told, in person, by multiple readers that they comment on here. Real people, not just an Anonymous guy posing as "multiple" readers like the troll here.
DeleteLike anyone takes your word at this point. :(
Delete4:17: They'll take my word over yours - you have zero credibility as an anonymous troll who doesn't have the guts to put your name to your comments.
DeleteAnd how many wins do you have in the polls for county council against Riemer?
Delete7:31: And how many checks does Riemer have from Mitt Romney's Bain Capital, Mitch Rales' Danaher Corporation (two pioneers in outsourcing American jobs to China + one of Danaher's closed factories was Maryland), Wall Street crooks, Wall Street banks and mortgage sharks that caused the great recession, and developers?
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