One of the annual signs that summer is approaching is the activation of the fountain at Veterans Park in downtown Bethesda. The fountain is a memorial for service members from Bethesda and Chevy Chase who were killed in action in the major armed conflicts from World War I up through the first and second Iraq wars. It is also a restful spot, with the water feature canceling out the urban noise around it. Downtown Bethesda seems to lose more and more fountains and water features every year, either to demolition or merely neglect and deactivation, such as the Bethesda Metro Center fountains that have been idle in recent years. Veterans Park is located at the intersection of Woodmont and Norfolk Avenues.
Any idea why the large fountain at the Bethesda Metro Center has been inactive for several years now?
ReplyDeleteit's clearly discriminating against the water hippies! Why should Bethesda have a fountain when Germantown doesn't!?
DeleteYou don't need a ceement pond Jed, go swim in the crick.
DeleteThe base seems to be crumbling and in need of repair.
DeleteAs always BUP is keeping Bethesda tight !
ReplyDeleteLose more and more fountains? Didn't we just get two new fountains within the last year? The one in front of Anthropologie and the fountain that was just installed behind Hampden House. There has been an increase in fountains downtown recently if anything.
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DeleteGreat news!
ReplyDeleteOther than the Metro fountain, what other fountains are no longer functioning?
ReplyDeleteOne behind the Hyatt in the Metro Center Plaza was turned into a planter. The one next to Chipotle was reactivated as a fountain a few years ago when the Metropolitan was renovated. The Avocet fountain is quite nice as well.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if Brookfield is not maintaining the big Metro Center fountain or is that WMATA’s responsibility. The smaller one near the Kid Museum was activated last year, as were three three behind the Flats at Bethesda Avenue.
Refugees and the unhoused swim in that war memorial fountain.
ReplyDeleteAnd you can tell that they're refugees... how?
DeleteThe fountain next to Chipolte near the beer and wine that used to get robbed daily on OGR was/has been broken for years.
ReplyDeletethey need to build more side parking and update abandon buildings down near paint store
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