The Phase 1 Giant building at the Westbard Square development at 5400 Westbard Avenue in Bethesda has advanced to the Tyvek stage. Exterior walls are now solid around a significant part of the upper floor of the building, and are wrapped, as are the support columns on the lower floors (which will have larger windows - and on the bottom floor, storefronts for other businesses - so they are farther along than they look before glass, etc. is installed). Delivery of the building is anticipated for late 2023. All current businesses at the adjacent Westwood Shopping Center remain open during the construction.
Do you know if they plan to move the overhead utilities underground? Those messy wires and transformers look pretty awful.
ReplyDeleteYou don't do aa project of this size without arranging with the utility companies for underground wiring...........either by the time the NEW GIant is completed or the whole project is completed.
ReplyDeleteMoCo has been quite lax on requiring developers to underground all overhead utilities. That’s why I posted the question. Look at the brand new Audi dealership in Bethesda, with tons of overhead wires still in place. Yes I know its expensive, but never a better time than the site is torn up.
ReplyDeleteIt's a good assumption that "of course" a big company like Regency Centers would do this, or that a county like Montgomery County would require it, but for anyone watching this development closely, Regency Centers won't spend a single dime to better the neighborhood that isn't required of them and Montgomery County appears far more concerned about Rockville than they do about Bethesda.
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