Another of the most-asked-about restaurants by readers is the long-delayed
Commonwealth Indian at Pike & Rose. There has now been much progress on the construction inside, lighting fixtures and some furniture are in place, a counter is taking shape, and signage and other design accents have been installed outside.
Commonwealth Indian is located at 11610 Old Georgetown Road, which was previously home to La Madeleine, one of many restaurant chains destroyed by the anti-business Montgomery County Council. Stay tuned for an opening date.
"Another of the most-asked-about restaurants by readers is the long-delayed Commonwealth Indian at Pike & Rose."
ReplyDeleteReally? How many readers asked you about it?
Still waiting for Dyer's negative spin on the Discovery building lease....
ReplyDelete"But it's not a Fortune 500" Lol
6:31: Last time I checked, the Discovery building is not at Pike & Rose, and it was only 30% leased - and most certainly not by a major corporation, much less a Fortune 500. MoCo hasn't attracted a single major corporate HQ in over two decades. #moribund
ReplyDeleteThe MoCo council is responsible for La Madeline closing and being replaced by a better more expensive restaurant? Oooooo Kay
ReplyDelete6:31: OK, I see Children's hospital has leased some space at the building. LOL, Nope, not a Fortune 500. Meanwhile, Amazon is moving in early in Northern VA with 100s of jobs averaging $150,000 in salary.
ReplyDelete#Moribund
6:40: No, just for La Madeleine closing.
ReplyDeleteA 140,000 SF 15 year lease for Children’s Hospital only 1 month after Discovery moved out is quite remarkable.
ReplyDeletePerhaps you can find a negative here somehow...”But it’s not freakin’ Apple!” or “Children don’t go to nightclubs!.
Small moves Ellie. Small moves.
On a related note, Amazon has just posted their first jobs for HQ2 in Arlington, not MoCo.
ReplyDeleteDo they have Butter Chicken?
ReplyDeleteNumber of Fortune 500 Nightspots in Moribund MoCo:
ReplyDeleteZERO
6:53 - Good for Arlington. That will help reduce their office vacancy rate which is currently 21%, half again that of Montgomery County's 14%.
ReplyDelete6:51: LOL - thank the MoCo cartel for giving Gov. Northam a reason to chuckle these days.
ReplyDelete6:53: So true. MoCo humiliated again!
7:22: We've already been over this, but for new folks:
ReplyDeleteThe two reasons Bethesda & MoCo falsely appear to have a lower vacancy rate than NoVa (and Bethesda's vacancy rate actually just went UP, increasing moribundity) are:
A) MoCo has demolished mass amounts of office space, and/or converted it into residential housing, which takes all of those destroyed vacant offices out of the equation
and
B) Northern Virginia overbuilt office space based on 2000s-level military/government contracting occupancy levels. When unstable geniuses Obama and Fellow Traveler Paul Ryan implemented the insane policy of sequestration, mass numbers of federal contracting jobs in Virginia were wiped out.
Thus NoVa APPEARS to have a higher vacancy rate, but it's simply not the case in reality. In reality, MoCo and Bethesda are DESTROYED in every economic development statistic by Northern Virginia, or the individual counties of Fairfax or Loudoun from job creation to business starts to business growth and beyond.
Everyone knows HQs that move to MoCo don't count! It's only when they move to VA that it's something special.
ReplyDelete7:59: LOL - No major corporate HQ has moved to MoCo in over 20 years!
ReplyDeleteAre you hiring on you network? How many employees?
ReplyDeleteFix your timestamp because it looks ridiculous and unprofessional. You need to hire better staff at SNN
ReplyDelete8:24AM actually publishing a story with "F*** ton of mayo" in the headline is ridiculous and unprofessional #LegacyMedia #IsIt3o'clockYet?
ReplyDelete"MoCo has demolished mass amounts of office space"
ReplyDeleteWhat a ridiculous statement.
Conor Building and Blackwell Building - being replaced by much larger Marriott headquarters (which includes Starwood which they acquired recently) and hotel.
Old Bethesda Police station and adjacent small office building - being replaced by much larger office building and other uses.
4747 Bethesda Avenue - small office building being replaced by much larger office building, including headquarters for JBG Smith.
8:35: Wrong! Marriott is just moving its chair down the deck of the Titanic from Rock Spring to downtown Bethesda - they're already here. Hotels are not office space.
ReplyDeleteThe new buildings coming online will only increase the vacancy rate in downtown Bethesda. So far - in what space has actually been leased - they are being filled by small tenants (JBG is moving into its own building, as a novel solution to the inability to attract a major corporation here) via subsidies at taxpayer expense.
Heckuva job, Brownie!
MoCo has a lot of work to do. What are the cogent reasons why a corporation would locate in White Flint over Arlington, Tysons, Navy Yard, etc.?
ReplyDelete9:32 AM If you're referring to the girl and her hamburger article, then yes, that was the low point in local media. Peak blog, jumped the shark, whatever you want to call it.
ReplyDeleteMr. Dyer, it seems that you believe that the most important, or even the sole, criteria for determining the economic success of a given jurisdiction is the presence of "Fortune 500 headquarters". Can you explain your reasoning?
ReplyDelete""Northern Virginia overbuilt office space based on 2000s-level military/government contracting occupancy levels. When unstable geniuses Obama and Fellow Traveler Paul Ryan implemented the insane policy of sequestration, mass numbers of federal contracting jobs in Virginia were wiped out."
ReplyDeleteIsn't Dyer always the one who claims that Montgomery County is excessively dependent upon federal jobs?
"Northern Virginia overbuilt office space based on 2000s-level military/government contracting occupancy levels. When unstable geniuses Obama and Fellow Traveler Paul Ryan implemented the insane policy of sequestration, mass numbers of federal contracting jobs in Virginia were wiped out.
ReplyDelete"Thus NoVa APPEARS to have a higher vacancy rate, but it's simply not the case in reality."
So you're saying that because NoVa lost a big load of jobs, that means it DOESN'T have a higher office vacancy rate? What exactly are you trying to say here, Dyer?
1:54: No, I'm saying that developers built much more office space in NoVA based on projected continued growth in defense/federal contracting jobs. Meanwhile, developers built very little new office space in MoCo, relative to VA.
ReplyDeleteWhen Obama and Ryan pulled the rug out from under the defense/federal contracting sector in NoVa, that resulted in greater office vacancies - it was not the result of a moribund economy in NoVa. Here, our office vacancies were ongoing, and the result of a moribund economy and hostile business climate.
1:26: Yes, I am. And the key difference is that MoCo over-relies on actual federal government jobs - which are allocated by the Democrat-aligned deep state to blue jurisdictions - like NIH, Walter Reed and FDA. In contrast, NoVa gets the vast bulk of federal CONTRACTING jobs (in addition to federal jobs), including the much-more-lucrative defense contracting firms. NoVa also has a booming private sector economy.
12:47: While some Fellow Travelers like Hans Riemer share the Fidel Castro model of a small local economy based on farmers markets and low-wage jobs, most economists recognize that economic powerhouses like NYC, Texas, Virginia and California always have large numbers of Fortune 500 companies.
How do you know that NoVa didn't get their (now gone) defense jobs from the same "deep state"?
ReplyDeleteUmmm...the number of jobs lost (or gained) is not a variable that is used in calculating the office vacancy rate. You're doing it wrong, Mr. Innumerate Birdbrain.
ReplyDeleteThere are two variables, and two alone, that are used to calculate the office vacancy rate for a given area:
Total square footage of vacant office space in a given area - this is the NUMERATOR.
Total square footage of office space in a given area - occupied as well as vacant - this is the DENOMINATOR.
The fraction is given in percent.
6:40: Never said it was, knucklehead. You've moved the goalposts because you're no longer talking about the original topic, which was office vacancies in MoCo vs. NoVa.
ReplyDeleteThe fact is that pre-sequestration, NoVa developers built a lot of office space based on 2000s-era growth rates in defense/federal contracting.
When unstable geniuses Obama and Paul Ryan pulled the rug out from under those industries via sequestration, a lot of that new office space ended up not getting filled.
Meanwhile, in moribund MoCo, very little new office space was constructed in the last two decades because our County economy has been stagnant. And much existing office space was demolished and turned into residential housing.
Both factors simply left less office space to be vacant than NoVa had; ergo, Bethesda falsely appears to have a lower vacancy rate than NoVa.
BOOM
One could argue that Bethesda was smart not to overbuild, and therefore has a lower vacancy rate than NoVa. Of course all that vacant space I’m the National Landing turned out to be a lure for Amazon.
ReplyDeleteCan you explain how La Madeline is "one of many restaurant chains destroyed by the anti-business Montgomery County Council". What policies or actions did the Council (not the cartel) take to "destroy" it. What other of "many restaurant chains" were "destroyed".
ReplyDeleteSincerely, Saul