The planned renovation of the McDonald's at 11564 Rockville Pike in White Flint is now underway. A sign says "lobby renovation," but there will be some exterior updates also, as I reported last month. Interestingly, the sign in the window is directing customers to a "Silver Springs" McDonald's, rather the longstanding McDonald's restaurant not that far north of here on Rockville Pike.
That building style is classic as you reported. The owner definitely needs to keep that in tact. The interior most certainly needed a facelift.
ReplyDeleteWow! I'm really looking forward to visiting once the renovations are complete!
ReplyDelete“Silver Springs” was Nicks’ tribute to the fairy-tale ending that never was. The title came from Silver Spring, Maryland: While passing through the town on tour, Nicks romanticized the name. “It sounded like a pretty fabulous place to me,” she said in the Classic Albums documentary about Rumours. “It’s a whole symbolic thing of what [Lindsey] could have been to me.”
ReplyDeleteI guess this means the BF Saul mixed use development on that site is no longer on the horizon?
ReplyDelete11:15: Yes, I think she saw the sign on the Beltway after a concert at the Capital Centre.
ReplyDelete8:29: The continuing disaster known as the Montgomery County Council.
The building is hardly "classic". It's only been on the site 22 years. Much more classic was the Roy Rogers, previously a Burger Chef, which occupied the site previously.
ReplyDeleteI suspect the reason patrons were redirected to the Four Corners rather than the Rockville restaurant, could be that the owner/franchisee of the White Flint restaurant also owns the Four Corners restaurant but not the Rockville restaurant?
"The continuing disaster known as the Montgomery County Council."
When redevelopment happens, MoCo bad.
When redevelopment doesn't happen, MoCo bad. Got it.
6:16 - Wrong. It is absolutely a classic McD's building style. See any others around like it? No, they've all been completely redone or are brand-new. Of course that's the reason customers are being redirected to 4 Corners, that's his restaurant. The MoCo part I agree with.
ReplyDeleteSaul has made clear their focus is on starting their larger project (Twinbrook Quarter) first. Very moribund of them, obviously.
ReplyDeleteAnd it's not just slightly larger. The Twinbrook Quarter site is four times as big as the White Flint site.
ReplyDelete5:02: No clue what that means - hundreds of residential projects have gone forward during MoCo's moribund decade, but they generate more costs than revenue for the County, so we still need those corporate HQs and high-wage jobs to restore the County's stagnant economy.
ReplyDelete6:16: Totally off-base. This isn't a build or no-build question; that was already decided when the Council passed the White Flint plan in 2010 with a $72 million tax cut for developers.
Much like the "Nighttime Economy" debacle, when they failed miserably to deliver their outlandish promises in eleven years, yes they are bad and can be judged on their colossal failure.
Wait, they still aren't putting a drive thru in? Is there some law preventing it? Sorry, I am a relatively new resident to north bethesda and have always wondered why this Mcdonald's doesn't have a drive thru.
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