Gone is the Chevy Chase Lake Supermarket and shopping center. In its place are excavation and grading equipment spread over a brown landscape. The Purple Line is under construction on the southern end of the site, as well.
Sunday, March 24, 2019
Chevy Chase Lake construction update (VIdeo+Photos)
Gone is the Chevy Chase Lake Supermarket and shopping center. In its place are excavation and grading equipment spread over a brown landscape. The Purple Line is under construction on the southern end of the site, as well.
I wish the proposed brownstones at Westbard were as nice as the almost fully built EYA brownstones at Chevy Chase Lake. The units at Westbard are all very repeatitive, and without much character. The site plans are similar, and in fact the revised plan at Westbard is actually a bit more interesting. Too bad their proposed architectural design is so boring.
ReplyDeleteI think one could say the same thing about the mid-rise towers. Westbard will be quite a bit more bland than the very ornate, and traditional towers at CCL. May a bit too traditional for my taste, but I think the whole Chevy Chase Lake project, when completed, will be a very nice node on the Purple Line. Only about a 2 minute light rail ride from Bethesda, so it really will feel a lot like a satellite neighborhood of Bethesda. Almost quicker to get from the Metro to Chevy Chase Lake using the Purple Line, than to walk 1/2 mile to the edge of the Woodmont Triangle, or wait for the Circulator. I hope some great restaurants are included at CCL. It will be fun to hop on the Purple Line for dinner and a stroll around the proposed town square.
When you compare the two, they are actually quite similar in scale, density and content. Both will have new supermarkets, compact town squares lined by retail, shops and restaurants, a token amount of street parking, lots of structured parking, a bit of office uses, lots of mid-rise apartments and brownstones. Neighboring existing and new buildings expand each district. Both Connecticut and Westbard serve as mini Main Streets, with smaller new streets added to create an urban grid.
If only Westbard had a similar light rail connection to Bethesda!
So...you took these photos on the same day as your Purple Line update published last Wednesday? Meaning they would have been taken on Tuesday at the earliest. It certainly wasn't overcast like that yesterday.
ReplyDeleteWow, that video was incredible. Almost like a Martin Scorsese movie! That dynamic sound track, and all that creative zooming in and out and in and out again really added to the drama. I think I have a much better understanding of dirt piles now.
ReplyDelete8:44 AM & 9:01 AM translates to: "Robert Dyer, I can't quit you"
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ReplyDeleteIt’s like driving past a bad car crash...I can’t seem to look away.
Thanks for the photos and info.
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