Here's a look at the lobby entrance at The Charles, the new apartment tower at 7342 Wisconsin Avenue in downtown Bethesda. Marble baseboard can be seen on the interior walls of the lobby. The Greystar development is now leasing. According to the Greystar website, most units will be available for move-in by January or February, with a smaller number coming online in December.
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I'm sorry to upset all the bike lane lovers here. But it's been so long that this project has been underway and lanes blocked off that folks may not even realize that the right turn lane onto SB Wisconsin Ave is gone completely. Yep. The one block bike lane, that no one ever uses, ever, took its place. How many cars and busses turn right at that intersection? Too many to make Montgomery Ave a smooth commute your can be assured of that. And some still think these dedicated lanes are pro bike. No, they're anti-car. Wake up.
Man, get a grip. Part of living in a vibrant community is bike lanes, walking paths, and public gathering spots. Yes, your commute out of Bethesda may take a bit longer. But it is a small price to pay. Downtown Bethesda has increasingly become a concrete jungle that is overburdened by cars driving in 5-minute increments from one parking lot to the next. This is why your commute takes so long- far too many cars when walking or biking would suffice. We are facing an obesity rate in Montgomery County, MD, of 24.2% (2022), and for school-age children, the rate is 14.1%. This isn't being anti-car- it's providing ways for others to live with a higher quality of life. I can't begin to fathom how you can drone on and on about bike lanes on Wisconsin, Old Georgetown and Little Falls Road. It is not being pro or anti-car to want bike lanes to exist to allow people to travel by bike from one part of the city ot another using these roads, and if your commute is a bit less efficient, well so be it.
8:21 - it's not about "get a grip". these are in fact commuter routes that need to move traffic efficiently. the roads were designed for cars not bikes. the obesity epidemic? you're right and we agree there. I walk 30 miles every week. there's the trolley trail and capital crescent that runs to Georgetown and connects to points beyond that's great for walking and biking. these bike lanes are not only more dangerous for all, they aren't used. that's my take and others have theirs.
@8:21 Don't you ever get tired of dictating to people how we all should live our lives? If you want to practice some justified authoritarian skills, lobby that ALL SNAP/Welfare recipients have access to only healthy foods and stop spending taxpayer dollars on sodas, snacks & garbage processed foods.
This! Isn't there a study that illustrates that snap recipients are fatter in general than the general population? In fact one of the democrats in the house trotted out some obese woman in front of congress to demonstrate how cruel living without benefits is. Talk about unable to read the room!
Another bloated overpriced apartment building. Studios, 1- and 2-BR units. 462 sq ft studios start at $2250/mo. 1400 sq ft units up to $9185/mo.
Rents do not include a long list of add-ons (see below). These prices and add-ons are typical for new builds in downtown Bethesda, probably also across the county. What a rip-off.
Extra fees:
"The basics" ~ These required fees are charged one time or recurring during the lease term.
Renters Liability Insurance - Third Party, varies per leaseholder (Paid monthly)
Utility - Electric - Third Party
Usage-Based (Utilities) per unit (Paid monthly)
Utility - Billing Administrative Fee $6.06 per unit (Paid monthly)
Utility - Water/Sewer Usage-Based (Utilities) per unit (Paid monthly)
Utility - Variable Refrigerant Flow Usage-Based (Utilities) per unit (Paid monthly)
Move-in basics
These required charges are one-time payments due either at the time of application, before move-in, or on move-in day.
Application Fee: $25.00 per applicant (One-time payment)
Security Deposit (Refundable): $500.00 per unit (One-time payment)
Utility - Final Bill Fee $17.00 per unit (One-time payment)
Utility - New Account Fee $17.00 per unit (One-time payment)
The below charges are based on your selections, such as adding pets, storage, or parking.
Parking - Garage (nonreserved) $300.00 per rentable item (Paid monthly)
Pet Rent $50.00 per pet (Paid monthly)
Renters Liability/Content - Property Program $14.50 per unit (Paid monthly)
Storage Space Rental $100.00 - $125.00 per rentable item (Paid monthly)
Parking - Reserved $375.00 per rentable item (Paid monthly)
Neither of you understands why those junk food items are allowed in. They are in there because they are lobbied for by the ten big ultra-processed food companies (Nestle, General Mills, PepsiCo, Unilever, Danone, Kellogg's, Mars, Mondelez, Associated British Foods, Coca-Cola, and Kraft Heinz). Their claim is that the dollars stretch much further because of calorie density/dollar. Technically, their claims are true, you can feed many more people with far fewer dollars...but you will make those people much sicker because the nutritional content is stripped out in these ultra-processed foods and usually replaced with sugars and fats (to make them addictive) and emulsifiers and preservatives to make them palatable and available on shelves for long periods.
Instead of complaining about SNAP participants' weight, you spend a moment considering how contradictory your position is. If you are primarily concerned about taxpayer dollars, you are ultimately trading off ultra-processed garbage food that makes people unhealthy in exchange for healthy quality food. The tax bill for feeding people healthier food is far, far higher (these foods are rarely shelf-stable for long periods, requiring more expensive goods to be purchased far more frequently per month). I''d be thrilled if there was a healthy food lobby that could get more dollars allocated for fresh food and curb the big ten lobbying power, but we all know that isn't reality. The apple farmer lobby, unfortunately, just can't compete with Kellogg's
So another way of saying this is: stop whining, you don't know what you are talking about.
"the roads were designed for cars not bikes." That's exactly the point, they are being redesigned to include other forms of transportation for commuting. There needs to be more ways to travel by walking or bike to places other than Georgetown. I am on Little Falls every day, there are certainly short interbvals that its busy, but the majority of the day it just isn't. For that matter, OGR and even Wisconsin, are not that busy for the vast majority of the day. I think the goal should be to avoid Bethesda becoming Rockville Pike, a car-driven (pun intended) hell-scape where you only see people in strip malls or parking lots.
Designing cities for cars rather than people is a mistake from the 60s and 70s that has created these commuter communities with no character. Is it anti-car, maybe...but I applaud Bethesda trying to do something about this before it becomes too late.
Meanwhile, 12:42 whines about why people can't live the way they dictate they should. Take a look in the mirror once in a while as it's not a pretty sight.
@12:42 As part of your government position, do you ever self actualize? On one hand you propose that we all either walk or bike and on the other complain that healthy foods cost too much. Here's a clue: when you allow more than 15 million Illegals into the country, 40% of which are on taxpayer funded entitlements including SNAP, the burden becomes too high necessitating the lowest cost garbage available yet your solutions are to create less parking and more bike lanes. Just wow. You do realize that these people on SNAP are able to select the food that they buy yet instead of limiting the choices to healthy foods you prefer to blame corporations like they're not in business to make money. When you grow up and start paying real taxes instead of spending other people's money, like your parents, get back to us with some real world solutions.
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