Attorney Steve Robins said he expects their amended sketch and preliminary plans to be filed with Montgomery County next month, with an expected Planning Board public hearing after the summer. A site plan will follow.
As I mentioned last month, the Bainbridge plaza will be widened by 20 feet. The architect explained the rationale behind the increase as providing better angled views outside of the buildings.
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This is a project that has now been in the works for years, but it seems that each time they update their plans the quality of the architecture and overall design improves, so the delays appear to have actually helped..
When is your next public campaign event?
ReplyDeleteYawn... Meanwhile Dyer is still ignorant of the new condo deal not to far from St Elmo that is in foreclosure.
ReplyDelete@Anonymous 5:59 am: That's very interesting. Could you share the information?
ReplyDelete5:59am The Claiborne, I presume? Since there are no other condos in the works in that area.
ReplyDeleteDid anyone show up for Graveyard Shift Wednesday?
ReplyDeleteJust say no to Art Deco! Hey the 1920’s called and wants David Schwartz back.
ReplyDeleteWhy does this tower need to look like it was built in 1925? Buildings should be of their own time, and NOT ape the past. This design firm is famous for its retro inspired traditional crap. Bethesda needs fresh and modern ideas, striking glass and metal towers, animated mixed use bases, and creative contemporary ideas. Not curved corner balconies and symmetrical retro towers clad in beige brick. If I was on the design review committee, I would give them zero points for design excellence. Great old buildings shoulld be preserved and celebrated, not copied.
Sorry, that’s David M. Schwarz, not Schwartz. I still don’t like them, even without the T. They need to revise this and create a contemporary building, and not copy a past style. Yes, Art Deco did create some fantastic architecture back in the 1920’s and 1930’s, but it is highly inappropriate in this day and age.
ReplyDelete"The Bainbridge plaza will be widened by 20 feet."
ReplyDeleteHopefully they will make the tables there level when they rebuild. It's really annoying having my bumper of St. Ides keep sliding downhill off the table when I'm drinking with Bobbie D at 2 AM.
5:59: I was among the first to talk about the problems at the Claiborne project. Not a shovelful of dirt turned over there yet. Very old news. Toll Brothers is the only other condo in the works, and banks aren't going to foreclose on Toll Brothers. You can't foreclose on a completed condo building, only on individual condos.
ReplyDeleteSounds like there is some disappointment in the design.
ReplyDeleteHas the new Bethesda design review board weighed in? Are their architects on that body giving input?
Dyer, your electioneering ads (such as the one in this article) show you always in a suit that is way too large for you, and a "clown" tie -- it is amazingly poorly knotted.
ReplyDeleteUse your hundreds of thousands in campaign donations to get properly fitted with some clothing, and taught how to tie a tie.
Sheesh, your photo looks like you were just released from prison and used your $100 on release to spend $10 at Goodwill.
Clown tie, Bro.
3:05pm your personal uniform is best described as "sloppy khakis", so please stop with the fashion consultant crap.
Delete5:58 PM - It sounds like you believe that 3:05 PM is a specific person. Who might that be?
ReplyDelete7:08 PM Keep whatever you're doing in the Council building bathrooms to yourself please.
ReplyDelete7:13 PM It will be outstanding to have new voices, maybe even a dissenting opinion on the Council! The current configuration hasn't served us well (witness the powerful vote to limit the council terms). Government and Planning by rubber stamp doesn't end well- that is how we got into this mess.
9:25 PM has voices in his head.
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