Wednesday, December 20, 2017

New police station sign lit

The "police" sign at the new 2nd District Montgomery County police station in Bethesda is now lit. It is located at 4823 Rugby Avenue.


7 comments:

Anonymous said...

It’s a pretty neat sign but the building is so ugly. Why didn’t they do more density there too? How much bigger is it than their old station?

Anonymous said...

@7:35

It's not pretty, but I would imagine that function would trump form for something as critical as a police station. I'm not sure taxpayers (or this blog's author) would be too thrilled if the county had given significantly more money to SC more to improve the architecture.

The new building is 32,000 SF, 50% larger than the 21,400 SF building.

The upshot to all of this is that an attractive, high-density office/hotel tower will replace the current station on Wisconsin, and the county police will get a major upgrade from a 50-year-old facility.

Anna said...

I'm probably alone on this, but I kinda like the building.
I haven't driven by it after dark though.
The sign is genius. Almost Whovian. :)

Anonymous said...

Odd that they would light the sign before the station is officially open. I can image someone unfamiliar with the area rushing to the site for assistance, after seeing the sign. Any timetable for their move?

Anonymous said...

ITS GOTHAM CITY

Anonymous said...

Reminds me of RoboCop for some reason. The building is ugly as hell.

Anonymous said...

It looks a lot less intimidating in the daytime.