Developer EYA has delivered a trailer to the construction site of its future Brownstones at Westbard Square townhome community. There will be townhouses on the Westbard Square parcel that was previously home to the Westwood Shopping Center parking lot. But construction will apparently begin on this former nursing home site, on what used to be 5101 Ridgefield Road. That site will be getting a new address on either Brookside Drive, or another street name to-be-determined, if Montgomery County approves Kenwood's request to change the name. The County converted a block of the realigned Westbard Avenue to "Brookside" without Kenwood's blessing, thereby appropriating one of the most desirable street names in real estate from that Chevy Chase community, what might be described as Kenwood's 5th Avenue.
Speaking of name confusion, the EYA trailer is wrapped with splashy promotion for its Tysons Ridge development, instead of Westbard Square. If EYA is trolling the County Council with the reference to the booming Tysons community that is whipping MoCo badly in the economic development department...well, as Don Jr. once wrote, "If it's what you say, I love it!"
"Tysons has never been more inviting," the trailer says. Hilton Hotels, Capital One, Mitre, Booz Allen Hamilton, Intelsat, and Gannett are among the Fortune 500 companies who couldn't agree more! All chose Tysons over Montgomery County to locate their headquarters. Montgomery County, by contrast, hasn't attracted a single major - much less a single Fortune 500 - corporate headquarters in over a quarter century. "Oh! Right into the buckle - - that's gotta hurt, Gene."
Gannett is moving its corporate HQ to NYC; in fact, the official changeover may have just happened.
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