A mixed-use residential building is being proposed for the site currently home to the vacant Steamers restaurant at 4820 Auburn Avenue in downtown Bethesda. In contrast to the Gallery Bethesda apartment tower behind it, this building will have only 58 units. That would likely mean it will be a condominium project, rather than rental apartments.
Up to 2800 SF of retail or restaurant space will be on the ground floor of the future building.
A public meeting on the project has been scheduled for Wednesday, June 15, at 7:00 PM at the Bethesda-Chevy Chase Regional Services Center at 4805 Edgemoor Lane.
This has a chance to be a very cool project. Only 58 units and 2800 SF of retail means we could see some very cool renderings. I hope they take the aesthetics and facade into account during design. Cool opportunity!
ReplyDeleteWill the developers be bold enough and take the leap from ultra-luxury to hyper-luxury? I think Bethesda is ready.
ReplyDeleteI thought the property went back up for sale? Did it find a buyer or is the original owner doing the project?
ReplyDeleteYay to see lots go up and turn into something useful in downtown Bethesda. Now if only Greenhill will get off their butts and start building up!
maybe you could arrange for the completing of the assemblages to make buildable sites
ReplyDeleteWhich lots does Greenhill need for assemblage?
DeleteIt's amazing. I get up and read Robert Dyer's news with my coffee and he's reporting on a new development every day!
ReplyDeleteIf this is your idea of amazing...
DeleteElm, I hope that coffee doesn't make you poop excessively!
ReplyDeletecurry house on Cordell and st elmo. then the developer would be working with functional geometry
ReplyDeletebangkok garden on ST Elmo. they are what is known as "spikes" or "holdouts"
ReplyDeleteDo we trust Greenhill would actually assemble and build up if he could get these "spikes"?
ReplyDeletethats the point of the assembly
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ReplyDeleteAnd this useful link to renderings will be censored and deleted by Robert Dyer in 3... 2... 1...
Delete7:36: Maybe use the time you spent spamming on my site to report on the 60% developer tax cut and damning audit of MCPS.
DeleteI see the mentally ill man child "anonymous" negative blogger has signed on and is posting about his poopy pants and links to his site.
ReplyDeleteDyer's readers hope this anonymous guy's employer has Summer Fridays again this year. That will decrease some of his crazy rants here.
Elm is so weird.
DeleteElm is like a child, seems more like it.
DeleteHey man child, If you want to advertise your little blog, pay Dyer for an ad. Be fair about it. I'm sure he'd consider selling you a tiny little ad.
ReplyDelete8:04 & 8:05 Yes, and the guy posting about his poopy pants and weird fascination with all things Robert Dyer is perfectly normal in your book?
ReplyDeleteWhy not call that anonymous nut out too? Explain.
"It's amazing. I get up and read Robert Dyer's news with my coffee and he's reporting on a new development every day!"
ReplyDeleteBut...but...MORIBUND!
I figure in the next year or two, residents will just get a bill for their portion of what the county is giving developers.
ReplyDelete8:39AM There are several people on this blog that I find obnoxious and you are
ReplyDeleteall of them.
8:39 AM In other words, anonymous was scooped. Why wait to read old news on your blog? Robert Dyer always has local news first.
ReplyDeleteThis man child talking about his blog where he recycles Dyer's stories has terrible impulse control.
Elm actually makes Dyer seem normal in comparison.
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ReplyDelete12:10 PM You're not backing up those statements with any facts.
ReplyDeleteWhy are you protecting Greenhill?
ReplyDelete2:03 PM Question is, why are you attacking? Reveal yourself if you have personal problem.
ReplyDeleteOr better yet, 2:03 and 12:10 supply your authority / credentials and a list of your successes
ReplyDeleteThere are a lot of keyboard cowboys posting here. I doubt they'll be able to produce credentials or accomplishments.
DeleteAnd you, Elm? Or 4:48?
DeleteAnd Robert Dyer, come to speak of it. All he does is bash without producing credentials or accomplishments.
Dyer is known. Please refer to his "about us" page. Easily accessible.
Delete4:48 PM = Lenny Greenberg
ReplyDeleteWhy did my comment about Greenberg get deleted twice? What comment policy is violated by posting a negative opinion of the man?
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DeleteTotally agree about Lenny from a first hand experience with a rental. These comments are being nice btw.
DeleteWhy would Dyer delete these comments? Isn't he pretty much offering exactly the same type of opinion in this blog on everything and everyone from the council to developers to other publications and so on.
Delete7:18: This is an article about a completely different topic, not a place to carry out personal beefs with businesspeople who aren't even part of this project.
DeleteAnd your rants on say equity one isn't a personal beef with businesspeople?
Delete7:18 PM The traditional role of the press in this country has been to hold our elected officials and government accountable. That's exactly what Robert Dyer is doing in Montgomery County.
ReplyDeleteThe Gazette, Patch, etc. never wanted to do the work. And now they're all gone.
7:25: Yes, and we really need to move on. People need to stop lamenting the "loss" of biased Gazette, and start promoting and sharing websites like mine that are still publishing, and actually holding government accountable.
DeleteSpeaking of move on. Westbard residents need to move on.
Delete@ 7:25 PM - Non sequitur. How is Dyer "holding our elected officials and government accountable" by deleting reader comments on his blog?
ReplyDelete"holding government accountable"
ReplyDeletePosting rants based entirely on misguided opinions, ad hominem attacks on politicians, and personal anecdotes isn't exactly what I would call "holding government accountable."
People only visit this site for two reasons:
1. To troll (since you refusal to engage in serious, thoughtful dialogue)
2. To read the legitimate local news between the rants
11:52: BS. I just wrote a detailed analysis of the budget disaster, the plan to cut taxes for developers, and a state audit of MCPS in the last 7 days alone - none of which was done by any other local news source. I absolutely am holding government accountable. Aside from the occasional Bill Turque article in the Post, I'm the only one doing so.
ReplyDeleteThere's only one main troll commenting here, and 1 or 2 fellow travelers who occasionally weigh in.
So you admit you are wrong about the lone troll. Finally some common sense.
Delete3:38 you paranoid Birdbrain! You are totally delusional if you still think it's one person actually paid by Hans and your competition to troll you. You're not that important to them. Please try to keep the crazy train on the rail here!
ReplyDelete"7:18: This is an article about a completely different topic, not a place to carry out personal beefs with businesspeople who aren't even part of this project" - Robert Dyer @ 9:45
ReplyDeleteIs this new comment policy? Only when you start a new post with a personal beef can we comment directly on it?
So every time you go off topic in your own comments you are violating your comment policy too?
And how is talking about Bethesda developers and development in a post about Betheada development "completely off topic"?
SMH
Let's make this comment relavant per Dyer's new revised comment policy.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad something is going up in this spot with higher density, unlike other similar lots in Bethesda such as the ones held by Greenhill and other landowners.
Glad to see a mixed use project on a small lot. Seems many of the very similar Bethesda Greenberg properties could do something similar instead of mediocre face lifts.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of the fallow Greenhill properties, "De Tapas" still says "Opening Spring 2016". There are just three weeks left in that season, and the inside of that building is still just bare wall studs. On the other hand, the Fresh Grill/Dancez Dancez building had some construction activity this week, but with no indication what the place will become.
ReplyDeleteGreenhill is like Dyer - perpetually "looking busy" but without actually accomplishing anything.
Also the NYC mural building that had an imminent tenant is still empty.
DeleteIt would be funny, and appropriate, if homeless people started squatting in that former homeless shelter.
ReplyDelete9:53 AM The whole Westbard community apparently has a beef with Equity One's heavy handed tactics. I wouldn't say it's personal.
ReplyDelete6:06 AM How many restaurants open exactly on schedule? Isabella's place opened an entire season after what his signage said. (It said Fall 2015, but didn't open until this year).
ReplyDeleteI read Rockvillenights.com with my coffee every morning and it's always reporting on how delayed the restaurants in Rockville Town Square are.
Nothing new or unique about restaurant openings. We know how byzantine MoCo permitting is.
Elm, are you defending Greenhill for any particular reason?
DeleteHow am I defending? I'm saying restaurants rarely open on schedule.
DeleteNothing worth spotlighting one owner.
And the only counterexample to Benny's dozens of moribund properties is "Kapnos Kouzina". Again.
ReplyDelete"I read Rockvillenights.com"
I'm sure you do. Too bad no one else does. LOL
I just used the example of Rockville Town Square.
DeleteRockville Nights reported on the delays of the Irish Pub and other places.
Restaurants are delayed often due to MoCo byzantine permit process.
Like I've said, many read Rockvillenights.
ReplyDeleteWe just leave the rude comments and juvenile antics to you rich folk in Bethesda.
@ 12:03 PM:
Delete#LoneReader
4:55: On the contrary, I'm the reason Hans Riemer got into the news business. He and some fellow travelers had to create another outlet to try to knock me off or drown me out. Baba Booey.
ReplyDelete11:48: RockvilleNights.com is the most-read news site in Rockville, and the only full-time news site covering the city. Your comments are sour grapes, knucklehead.
ReplyDeleteReamer supporters set up a faux news blog to support his crazy ideas. It turned out Bethesda residents don't want to read about Reamer every day (big surprise, right?). Site crashes and burns.
ReplyDeleteRemember, even the Post said Reamer doesn't do anything.
11:35: He doesn't have the stamina or energy to do anything. He was about as successful in media as he was on any other issue he's tackled. We need leaders who can actually get the job done.
Delete3:53 as a reader without a pony in this race, can you help explain what you mean by Riemer getting into the news business because of you? Thanks.
ReplyDelete5:43: It was a team effort, but Riemer was one of the players, and beneficiaries. Could have been handled in a less obvious way if he had been smarter.
Delete5:43 here again. Team effort to do what again? What news business did he and players and beneficiaries start again?
Delete5:26: An alternative website which they could drive traffic to, so the public could get the official messages of the MoCo Cartel - and a couple of councilmembers in particular.
Delete"most-read news site in Rockville"
ReplyDeleteSource???
10:34: Not only the stats, but, dude, it's also the only full-time Rockville news site in town. You're not the sharpest tool in the drawer, but a tool for sure.
DeleteReally? What was Riemer's role in founding and/or operating the site?
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