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Developer JBG Smith continues demolition of 7900 Wisconsin Avenue, and the surrounding properties it has assembled, for the mixed-use residential project it will replace them with. The building is about half gone at this point.
@Anna: Funny how the state roads side of the project (Wisconsin) has a covered walkway while the county roads side (Woodmont) does not and will be closed for three years. The county's own internal guidelines say that sidewalks are only supposed to be closed for safety reasons. I wonder what makes the Woodmont side so much more dangerous than the Wisconsin side.
2:05: I've written about it before. They didn't reopen it. I'll continue to write about it once demolition ends. With several projects on that same block in the coming years, this will be a critical test of the so-far-a-failure Berliner sidewalk law.
I'm the one who inspired that law through my coverage of closures on this website. Berliner said I was doing a public service. So it's ridiculous to claim I'm not covering the story.
5:31: There haven't been any "insults." Whatever critical comments there have been were coming from the Westbard debacle. I don't have any real beef with Councilmember Berliner outside of the Westbard situation, where he really let down his constituents. He hasn't followed through on his sidewalk closure laws, to ensure they are enforced. But he's one of the few forward-thinking Council members on issues like ending the liquor monopoly and autonomous vehicles.
"In my last report, we learned that Berliner was in a "life coach" role for the developer, advising the firm how to deal with you, the pesky NIMBYs, er, taxpaying constituents."
I take it that is from Saturday?
ReplyDeleteLook at that nice covered walkway.
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Robbie is dropping hints to Mom that he wants Tonka Toys for Christmas.
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@Anna: Funny how the state roads side of the project (Wisconsin) has a covered walkway while the county roads side (Woodmont) does not and will be closed for three years. The county's own internal guidelines say that sidewalks are only supposed to be closed for safety reasons. I wonder what makes the Woodmont side so much more dangerous than the Wisconsin side.
ReplyDelete1:26 PM The Woodmont sidewalk closure is very disruptive. We can't close large swaths of Woodmont as other projects start.
ReplyDeleteIt's odd that Robert Dyer's article doesn't mention the closure of the sidewalk on the Woodmont Avenue side. Is he covering for the MoCo Cartel?
ReplyDeleteAlso, the remains of the building, as shown in his photos, is a lot more than just "half gone'. Dyer must not spend much time in Bethesda.
2:05: I've written about it before. They didn't reopen it. I'll continue to write about it once demolition ends. With several projects on that same block in the coming years, this will be a critical test of the so-far-a-failure Berliner sidewalk law.
ReplyDeleteI'm the one who inspired that law through my coverage of closures on this website. Berliner said I was doing a public service. So it's ridiculous to claim I'm not covering the story.
"Berliner said I was doing a public service"
ReplyDeleteAnd yet you lambast him with namecalling and insults.
5:31: There haven't been any "insults." Whatever critical comments there have been were coming from the Westbard debacle. I don't have any real beef with Councilmember Berliner outside of the Westbard situation, where he really let down his constituents. He hasn't followed through on his sidewalk closure laws, to ensure they are enforced. But he's one of the few forward-thinking Council members on issues like ending the liquor monopoly and autonomous vehicles.
ReplyDelete"In my last report, we learned that Berliner was in a "life coach" role for the developer, advising the firm how to deal with you, the pesky NIMBYs, er, taxpaying constituents."
ReplyDeletehttp://robertdyer.blogspot.com/2017/06/berliner-and-westbard-developer-made.html