On the menu, look for new items only available at this location, Quincy's favorites, and pizzas from their brick pizza oven. They've also got chili on the menu, for all of you Hard Timers who used to order a bowl from the Hard Times Cafe that previously occupied this space.
I see Kim Jong Robert turned the comments off on the update about the wax center? Why are comments turned off on all the blog posts involving Karr's crappy designs and Greenberg's soon-to-be vacant properties? What's Dyer's affiliation with these guys? He has no problem slandering the County Council but won't allow critique on the design and development in Bethesda? Want to know why Bethesda is "Moribund"? It's landlords like Greenhill driving the tenants away!
ReplyDeleteOh is that why comments are selectively turned off? I didn't notice the pattern of only being Karr and Greenhill properties until you pointed it out. I wonder why Robert does that? Does he have a relationship with the two of them that he is protecting? Or maybe the comments are out of hand - but if that were the case the comments in every other post are out of hand too. So it makes us all very suspicious of Robert Dyer's motives as being shady and suspect.
DeleteA friend of mine went to Quincy's last night and said it was actually pretty filled with young people. Tommy Joes is pretty young too every time I have good. Sounds like a positive direction for Woodmont Triangle for the youth to be returning!
Delete6:10: Nobody was "driven away" by landlords. The businesses were unable to profit due to the high taxes and costly new regulations placed on them since 2010 alone. Add in the failure of Hans Riemer's "nighttime economy" initiative, and it's no wonder bars couldn't pay their rents. Landlords don't lock out and evict tenants who pay their rent. The Karr -Greenhill project has done just the opposite of what you claim: it has leased up before construction is even finished. Sounds like a success by any measure. The same can't be said for Riemer and the County Council - even his former chief of staff and the Washington Post agree with my assessment of Montgomery County's moribund private sector economy.
DeleteWasn't the Karr-Greenhill project was vacant for several years before it leased to bold bites and the waxing salon? I think you highlighted the Blackfinn closing as one of failures of the nighttime economy task force.
DeleteDyer's opinions aren't completely wrong but are half truths.
DeleteNot to mention he completely ignores half the questions asked.
#dodgingdyer
I'm glad they didn't spend too much money renovating Quincy's. Eventually it will be knocked down and assembled into a highrise, and doing a Karr / Greenhill type lipstick on a pig renovation delays and hinders the ability, raises the price tag for the developer and future tenants.
ReplyDeleteWhile I don't care for the ugly Karr Grenhill renovations, I do commend the idea of opening up retail frontage on the long Norfolk block that had nothing before since the Blackfinn and Hanaro doors were on opposite corners. Shame it's a waxing center. But it's better than Greenhillvacant.
DeleteWow Robert Dyer .. Village idiot. WHAT ABOUT THE WEIRD PLACE ON CORDELL THAT WAS FULLY LEASED A YEAR AGO? #Birdbrain
ReplyDelete6:59: In fact, I have no clue at this point what all these "vacancies" are - every space I can think of under that ownership has leased up, or is under construction for imminent lease, in the case of the Lot 667 remaining spaces. You'll have to find a new talking point.
Deleteblackfinns location was the worst performer in their chain.The food was mediocre, the space was both inefficient, snd too big. Sales cratered before the construction and the construction made things worse, as they stopped paying rent and skipped out
ReplyDelete7:06: I agree construction sidewalk closures didn't help, but the place was packed through the end. Always a line during the summer. I don't think a lack of customers was the problem. So you have to look at what the impact of County Council votes were on the razor-thin margins of profit bars and restaurants have. For many, it was simply too much, and they had to close. Couldn't pay the bills because they had to pay the County Council instead. The energy tax alone wiped out a ton of businesses before Hans even got started.
Deletecordell is leased.
ReplyDeleteAmazing that the anonymous guy complains that he can't insult folks because a thread is closed for comments. lol.
ReplyDeleteMaybe anonymous should cut back on the insults a bit?
Can we please stop blaming everything on Hans Riemer and get real? You don't like the Council. Fine. Please stop holding a grudge and move on. I cannot believe some of the claims on this site. Nearly every single bad thing to happen in Bethesda is blamed on Hans Riemer. There are many local issues to discuss, both positive and negative, and not all of them can be attributed to a single person, but all we hear about is Hans Riemer in nearly every single story.
ReplyDeleteI too am curious why the comments are closed on the Greenhill Property. The author did not really explain above. I'm guessing it really is a clause in a contract the author has with the property owner?
7:47: As the other commenter mentioned, Hans Riemer owns the nighttime economy disaster. He made it all about him in the massive press blitz in which he essentially cast himself as the saviour of nightlife. So when it bombed, guess who the face of it is? Yep, the guy who took all the credit. He is rightly singled out on all debacles that resulted from his various self-promoting media campaigns: nightlife, cybersecurity, food trucks, "getting government out of liquor business" - all complete disasters. Lesson: Don't move across country and use Wall Street money to win office before you've even unpacked the U-Haul.
DeleteSo dyer again ignores the question.
DeleteWhat kind of contract would the author have with the property owner?
ReplyDeleteTo me, it's more in line with a Cease and Desist letter. Closing comments on their threads would comply.
Presumably comments are closed because some nut keeps posting personal attacks against the same business owner.
ReplyDeleteAre you saying you're missing reading the same repeated insults? Lol.
If you're mad because you can't post or read insults on a news article, please get help asap. There's more to life than insults.
As for Reamer, he owns the nightlife issue on the Council. He says he fixed it.
So it's perfectly appropriate to hold him accountable.
I wish the legacy local media would occasionally hold elected officials accountable. Hard to do when you're best friends with the Councilmembers you're claiming to cover. :)
Everyone knows Dyer takes kickbacks from Greenhill & Karr so he can't post stupid stuff like he does about Westbard.
ReplyDeletekicking back from what?
ReplyDeleteCurious about this. Does that owner in question advertise on other local blogs?
ReplyDeleteIf not, maybe that's the impetus for the repetitive insults.
If so, never mind.
6:15 AM Were you drunk when you wrote this?
ReplyDelete6:20 AM Your glee about the state of the economy is very myoptic. You obviously haven't looked across the river lately. Oh, you don't need to, just read the local biz press sometime, I know your soo busy.
ReplyDelete8:58 AM Tysons is booming as one of the next great cities. Not just residential, but jobs, jobs, jobs.
ReplyDeleteHow's White Flint doing?
Still no answer about the lack of comments on the waxing center.
ReplyDeleteWhat about the weird NYC mural that a commentor said had a tenant where the theme would make sense? Still vacant and for lease.
ReplyDeleteAnd Robert Dyer continues to ignore the question about any relationship with Karr or Greenhill. He's as bad as the politicians he writes about.
Dyer protects his sources from criticism.
ReplyDelete10:49 building with mural has been leased.
ReplyDeleteMaybe Dyer does it to get you riled up.
ReplyDeleteThen you make post after post after post about it
And his ratings and # of comments and views go up.
Good plan.
Obviously, works really, really well.
11:40 I see you are adopting Trump speak now.
ReplyDeleteAccording to the third party data available, Dyer's traffic across his MoCo neighborhood news network has been surging.
ReplyDeleteHe's definitely fulfilling a need in these communities for local news!
What third party data and how does Anonymous know?
DeleteThere are several third party analytics sources available for site traffic. I don't have access to Dyer's own first party data.
DeleteThe third party data shows how traffic is surging on Dyer's network.
EastMoCo traffic is skyrocketing this year; up massively every month.
This homeship site, Bethesda Row, has surged.
Rockville Nights is surging. All of these are ahead of other local site or blog.
Amazing how little credit he gets from the legacy media for filling the vacuum that The Gazette and Patch left in these neighborhoods.
Traffic is surging - so you're looking at Dyer's multiple website statistics and analyzing them? Who said something about obsessed!!!!????
DeleteYep... interested in the current MoCo media landscape. My findings show Dyer is filling a huge void left by the Gazette & Patch.
DeleteGod damn you Robert Dyer. So many of us despise you.
ReplyDelete12:23 PM Quite the opposite probably.
ReplyDeleteYou can love the county and still see the lack of leadership on the Council and things have declined.
Bethesda residents in particular are disappointed in how they took their eye off the ball.
Remember when Bethesda was MoCo's crown jewel?
11:56AM Trump speak? I honestly don't have a clue what you mean. I was pointing out my observations and thoughts.
ReplyDeleteIf I IN ANY WAY sounded like Trump, I'm sorry...and I'm leaving now to puke, because I've literally made myself sick with that thought.
From, 11:40
When Hogan seized power, Leventhal threatened that MoCo, and the other "big counties" would secede from the state.
ReplyDeleteIf Trump rises, will Leventhal threaten to secede from the United States?
@ 12:39 pm - Leventhal said no such thing. Please stop lying.
Delete#UnsignedDyer
Robert Dyer:
ReplyDeleteNice try. You blame Hans Riemer for *everything* not just the "nighttime economy," which seems to be improving monthly. This article is literally about a great new addition to the area's nightlife!
Also, your lack of response about the Greenhill property pretty much confirms what's been posted above, so I gather that this means you'll never comment on sleazy council members.
Robert Dyer asks lots of hard hitting questions to councilmembers and the like and doesn't get answers and says shame on them.
ReplyDeleteYet Robert Dyer doesn't answer hard hitting questions asked of him. Shame on Robert Dyer.
Same old. Same old.
I'm guessing Dyer got a cease & desist from Greenhill. As for Karr, either he got some kind of sponsorship, or Karr treated him better than most developers in terms of access to opening parties and so on.
ReplyDeleteWhatever it is, not saying anything and ignoring the hard questions just makes it more shady and suspicious. Just like when he asks questions to his favorite council member.
Delete1:40 PM It's understandable...if I intimated that I was thinking of proposing seceding from the state, I'd want to walk that back too. It was embarrassing and George was quietly told to drop the idea.
ReplyDeleteThe county also floated seizing part of Twinbrook from the City of Rockville. Their mayor and council push back hard and MoCo had to walk that back too.
These are the kinds of birdbrain ideas our current leaders propose.
@ 1:47 PM - Please stop lying.
Delete#UnsignedDyer
"Please stop lying"
DeleteYou mean like when Councilmember Reamer claimed there are two Metro stations walkable from Westbard Avenue? We're dealing with dishonest politicians here.
It's fact that a MoCo official expressed the desire to bring part of Twinbrook into White Flint. It was regrettable by Ken, but it happened.
AND... Leventhal had one ofhis tantrums after Hogan seized power. He wanted out of Maryland. Said the bug counties didn't need the rural areas. Regrettable!
Hmmm I guess I though Robert was a straight shooter. I guess not.
ReplyDeleteDyer @ 6:20 AM - "The high taxes and costly regulations placed on them since 2010 alone"
ReplyDeletePerhaps you could cite these? Please be specific.
#DodgingDyer
1st 1:40PM:
ReplyDeleteThank you. I've been saying it for months and it's nice to get support.
To comply with a cease and desist letter, Dyer could be legally prevented from speaking about it.
Ok, great. You think you figured it out. Can we move on now?
Delete6:26PM Hey, Elm...No need to get pissy with someone who has never said a harsh word against you. I hope your day is as pleasant as you are.
ReplyDeleteLove and bacon, 5:14AM, 11:40AM, 12:35PM
It is a PokeSpot, folks. Guaranteed foot traffic. These guys really got lucky.
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