Renovation of office tower property 7500 Old Georgetown (a.k.a. The Clark Building) at the Bethesda Metro Center continues. The facade refresh, with gradient tones of white and grey, appears nearly complete. Work continues on the ground level plaza, lobby entrance, and lobby interior. Anchor office tenant Clark Construction is expanding to Northern Virginia. Clark has leased space at the Silverline Center in Tysons.
Clark Construction is still maintaining their headquarters and leadership team in Bethesda. And Clark Enterprises isn't moving.
ReplyDeleteWhat they really need to renovate is the Bus Bay and Kiss & Ride area. It currently looks right out of "Alien 3". Hopefully that's planned for at some point.
ReplyDeleteI noticed that the approved plans for the remodeling showed new floor to ceiling glass installed at the top floor, in the existing conference center that currently lacks any windows. It looks like they decided not to undertake this expensive modification, given the current work-from-home trends.
ReplyDeleteIt would be nice if neighboring Brookfield would consider refreshing their drab grey precast concrete buildings at the Bethesda Metro Center. The recently cleaned Hyatt Hotel is already showing lots of dirt and stains.
Building is looking nice.
ReplyDeleteBrookfield has proposed a large renovation of the bus bay area as part of it’s thirty story high, 4 Bethesda Metro Center project. They have sketch and preliminary approvals, but asked for and were granted a three year extension of their site plan approval process about one year ago. So, maybe in 2024 we might see this move forward.
ReplyDeleteThis is obviously a very complicated place to stage and construct a very tall tower. I hope SOM can come up with an iconic design.
I look at you website on an iPhone. There are way too many ads. I’m not interested in any of them. I makes looking at your website difficult and uninviting. Between too many of your pictures and pictures in the ads (sometimes inappropriate), it’s hard to find and follow your stories. Enough with the ads!
ReplyDelete9:40: I think a high design priority needs to be visual compatibility with the other Metro Center buildings, or it is going to aesthetically destroy that center of town. It needs some design cues that echo the buildings adjacent to it.
ReplyDelete11:49: I think you will find the same advertisements on virtually every news website today. To provide free news without a paywall, or constantly begging readers for money, news organizations rely on ad revenue.
Viewing this site on my phone I can never go directly to any article. I click on an article, and the page reloads showing the ads at the bottom of the homepage but doesn't go to the article and I have to click again.
ReplyDeleteAnd I note that none of the ads are ever from local businesses.
6:19: You have pretty much described the experience of reading any news website in the year 2022. We can lament the internet trends of our time, but let's apply the criticism to all websites that display ads, and not just single out one. When's the last time you saw a news website with no ads?
ReplyDeleteI personally see local ads on my website all the time - Allbirds at Bethesda Row, the new Wegmans in Tenleytown, and office suites for lease in downtown Bethesda buildings, just to name a few.
@9:40 AM: Thanks for the info. So it'll just sit there and decay for another couple of years. Great.
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