The former
Jewelry Exchange building at 7747 Old Georgetown Road in Bethesda has been sold. Now the new owner has made it available for lease. I'm told it is a short-term lease, so while the property is therefore unlikely to be redeveloped in the near future, that option is not being pushed into the far future, either. Redevelopment of the site wouldn't make much sense anyway, unless an agreement can be reached with the owner of the small building at the corner of Old Georgetown and St. Elmo Avenue to assemble the two lots.
Short-Team Lease means it won't be a moribund bank branch. Short-Term Lease also means that it probably won't have a kitchen build-out either to be a food establishment.
ReplyDeleteI was on the "trolley" aka, circulator pulling up to the light that day when 3 thugs casually strolled in and armed robbed that place with the great commercials. Everything closes or enact draconian measures after every incident. Depressing, sad and pathetic. Cities used to thrive, then crime and ultimately ghetto. Yes, I am racist, anti-semitic, homophobic and misogynistic... That's what you comment readers are thinking, right? Wrong. I'm 60 yrs old watching my "B-town" turn to shit right before my eyes everyday.
ReplyDelete@3:30 PM: I know exactly what you mean. "The Man with the Golden Glock" who robbed the Bethesda Row Apple Store on October 22nd then went on to rob the Clarendon Apple Store on November 2nd: https://www.arlnow.com/2022/11/02/just-in-police-investigating-armed-robbery-at-clarendon-apple-store/
ReplyDeleteThere's a reason I conceal carry a firearm in MoCo.
Wow this store has been here forever. Did it close due to Pandemic? I think buying jewelry needs to be done inperson or has that moved to online as well?
ReplyDeleteIs the purchaser of the building going to knock it down and build another high rise apartment building?