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Monday, April 16, 2018
Intimissimi, new Auntie Anne's location open at Westfield Montgomery Mall in Bethesda (Photos)
Intimissi, an Italian lingerie boutique, has opened on Level 1 of Westfield Montgomery Mall. The retail center is gradually filling spaces vacated in a barrage of post-Christmas closures.
Intimissi
Meanwhile, ubiquitous American mall treat Auntie Anne's has popped up in a new location. Their newest pretzel kiosk is on Level 1 outside of Macy's. And filling the former Teavana space will be a temporary location for Pandora Jewelry.
11:25: First of all, this is a Bethesda news site, not Rockville. Second, I was never contacted by the brewery. How am I supposed to know about it - through ESP? Third, there's nothing new about breweries opening in the County. But Virginia has been beating us badly in the brewery department: they have 191, and we have just over 70.
As the governor said of that comparison to Maryland,
"McAuliffe: Oh, that’s embarrassing. Tell Maryland, get in the game on this!"
Humiliating. After all of the media hype about the "Nighttime Economy" initiative, we ended up with a few tiny tweaks to minor arcane regulations, 15 nightspots shuttered in downtown Bethesda, and probably more than a decade just to even catch up to Virginia in breweries.
Meanwhile, no action on the items everyone wanted action on - ending the DLC sales monopoly, and beer and wine sales in grocery, drug and convenience stores. In fact, Helpless Hans Riemer did a 180 and ended up strengthening the DLC monopoly, instead of ending it.
Again, humiliating. But these are facts, not narrative.
12:03: Yes - in Rosslyn, not Montgomery County. Virginia just handed the MoCo Council their [briefcases] again.
Not 11:25. but asking on his behalf. Your "Suburban News Network" has a blog called "RockvilleNights.com". I do not see any news about the brewery on this site, either.
"I was never contacted by the brewery. How am I supposed to know about it - through ESP?"
So you just wait for news stories to fall into your lap?
Third, there's nothing new about breweries opening in the County.
"Virginia has been beating us badly in the brewery department: they have 191, and we have just over 70."
By Virginia, do you mean the entire state? By "us" do you mean Montgomery County? That hardly seems like an apples-to-apples comparison.
The recently-failed Reform on Tap Act (HB 518) is State-level legislation. County officials including including President Reimer endorsed it. Linking the relatively small number of craft breweries to county policy is disingenuous at best, and suggests a misunderstanding on Mr. Dyer’s part of the powers held by the legislative office he seeks.
One more point: It’s funny that Mr. Dyer should mention the Nighttime Economy task force, given that the legislative changes it spurred are precisely what has led to the growth in craft breweries in the county.
4:53: Huh? We had craft breweries before the task force. Fredericksburg has craft breweries - and they also have a higher growth rate of new businesses than we do, to boot. The Nighttime Economy task force was a disaster: 15 nightspots closed, the DLC government monopoly was STRENGTHENED to now last indefinitely, and we still can't buy Bud Light ate CVS.
4:31: Huh? All liquor changes go through the state. But the counties have to seek the changes. Helpless Hans Riemer didn't seek to privatize liquor sales with his colleagues in Annapolis. He didn't seek to allow sales in grocery, drug and convenience stores. But it was Mr. Riemer who had the "misunderstanding," given that the one piece of preserve-the-DLC-AND-raise-liquor-prices legislation he sent to Annapolis was ripped up and thrown in the trash by his Democratic colleagues there. #Humiliating
2:34: That's a state-to-state comparison. Surely you don't want me to break out the even more embarrassing total number of breweries operating in MoCo?
2:11: Because they are a developer-funded website whose questions were designed to give a negative slant to candidates who aren't controlled by developers.
You could have found out about the brewery through social media you nitwit. BB has a write up about it, so did MoCo Show. They didn’t need ESP either!!
8:32: Again, you are suggesting the information could be obtained via ESP. Obviously the brewery, a County Councilmember or someone else contacted whoever wrote about it. The main point is, my narrative remains correct - we are living under an archaic liquor monopoly, and the Nighttime Economy initiative was a disaster.
Robert Dyer: "I was never contacted by the brewery. How am I supposed to know about it - through ESP?"
Andrew: "You could have found out about the brewery through social media you nitwit. BB has a write up about it, so did MoCo Show. They didn’t need ESP either!!"
Robert Dyer: "Again, you are suggesting the information could be obtained via ESP."
What is your fascination with Fredericksburg? Do you realize that Montgomery County is nearly thirty six times larger than Fredericksburg? Comparisons between the two are completely useless.
7:40: The DLC was strengthened several ways, including the new "private sector" leader who is maintaining a government monopoly, the fake offer of allowing private sales to arbitrarily-chosen retailers who actually were never going to be chosen, and then using fake diversions like this to then drop the privatization issue altogether and move on to circus animals. Heckuva job, Brownie!
15 nightspots indeed closed, and very few were replaced. Residents have zero power to close a business via "harassment." One of your more desperate arguments, old sport.
Silver Spring is the only area with even a pulse, but aside from The Fillmore and Dave & Buster's, there aren't any Las Vegas-style nightclubs with big lines outside the last time I checked. Millennials are still going into D.C. for such options, even if those aren't exactly Vegas-level themselves.
Overall, Silver Spring is in big trouble, becoming a bedroom community without the daytime customer base to sustain restaurants.
"...aside from The Fillmore and Dave & Buster's, there aren't any Las Vegas-style nightclubs with big lines outside the last time I checked. Millennials are still going into D.C. for such options, even if those aren't exactly Vegas-level themselves."
18 comments:
"Intimissi"
FAIL
Hey Dyer,
A brand new brewery opened in Rockville last week, but no mention of it on your blog? Is that because of fails to follow your narrative you fool???
Looking forward to it!
Big Fortune 500 news!
Moribund local skyscraper less vacant!
11:25: First of all, this is a Bethesda news site, not Rockville. Second, I was never contacted by the brewery. How am I supposed to know about it - through ESP? Third, there's nothing new about breweries opening in the County. But Virginia has been beating us badly in the brewery department: they have 191, and we have just over 70.
As the governor said of that comparison to Maryland,
"McAuliffe: Oh, that’s embarrassing. Tell Maryland, get in the game on this!"
Humiliating. After all of the media hype about the "Nighttime Economy" initiative, we ended up with a few tiny tweaks to minor arcane regulations, 15 nightspots shuttered in downtown Bethesda, and probably more than a decade just to even catch up to Virginia in breweries.
Meanwhile, no action on the items everyone wanted action on - ending the DLC sales monopoly, and beer and wine sales in grocery, drug and convenience stores. In fact, Helpless Hans Riemer did a 180 and ended up strengthening the DLC monopoly, instead of ending it.
Again, humiliating. But these are facts, not narrative.
12:03: Yes - in Rosslyn, not Montgomery County. Virginia just handed the MoCo Council their [briefcases] again.
Mr Dyer, out of curiosity, why did you decline to respond to GGW’s survey of At-Large candidates?
"This is a Bethesda news site, not Rockville."
Not 11:25. but asking on his behalf. Your "Suburban News Network" has a blog called "RockvilleNights.com". I do not see any news about the brewery on this site, either.
"I was never contacted by the brewery. How am I supposed to know about it - through ESP?"
So you just wait for news stories to fall into your lap?
Third, there's nothing new about breweries opening in the County.
"Virginia has been beating us badly in the brewery department: they have 191, and we have just over 70."
By Virginia, do you mean the entire state? By "us" do you mean Montgomery County? That hardly seems like an apples-to-apples comparison.
The recently-failed Reform on Tap Act (HB 518) is State-level legislation. County officials including including President Reimer endorsed it. Linking the relatively small number of craft breweries to county policy is disingenuous at best, and suggests a misunderstanding on Mr. Dyer’s part of the powers held by the legislative office he seeks.
One more point: It’s funny that Mr. Dyer should mention the Nighttime Economy task force, given that the legislative changes it spurred are precisely what has led to the growth in craft breweries in the county.
4:53: Huh? We had craft breweries before the task force. Fredericksburg has craft breweries - and they also have a higher growth rate of new businesses than we do, to boot. The Nighttime Economy task force was a disaster: 15 nightspots closed, the DLC government monopoly was STRENGTHENED to now last indefinitely, and we still can't buy Bud Light ate CVS.
4:31: Huh? All liquor changes go through the state. But the counties have to seek the changes. Helpless Hans Riemer didn't seek to privatize liquor sales with his colleagues in Annapolis. He didn't seek to allow sales in grocery, drug and convenience stores. But it was Mr. Riemer who had the "misunderstanding," given that the one piece of preserve-the-DLC-AND-raise-liquor-prices legislation he sent to Annapolis was ripped up and thrown in the trash by his Democratic colleagues there. #Humiliating
2:34: That's a state-to-state comparison. Surely you don't want me to break out the even more embarrassing total number of breweries operating in MoCo?
2:11: Because they are a developer-funded website whose questions were designed to give a negative slant to candidates who aren't controlled by developers.
You could have found out about the brewery through social media you nitwit. BB has a write up about it, so did MoCo Show. They didn’t need ESP either!!
8:32: Again, you are suggesting the information could be obtained via ESP. Obviously the brewery, a County Councilmember or someone else contacted whoever wrote about it. The main point is, my narrative remains correct - we are living under an archaic liquor monopoly, and the Nighttime Economy initiative was a disaster.
Robert Dyer: "I was never contacted by the brewery. How am I supposed to know about it - through ESP?"
Andrew: "You could have found out about the brewery through social media you nitwit. BB has a write up about it, so did MoCo Show. They didn’t need ESP either!!"
Robert Dyer: "Again, you are suggesting the information could be obtained via ESP."
Dialogue of the Deaf.
What is your fascination with Fredericksburg? Do you realize that Montgomery County is nearly thirty six times larger than Fredericksburg? Comparisons between the two are completely useless.
"the DLC government monopoly was STRENGTHENED to now last indefinitely"
Please explain. How has the DLC been "strengthened" since 2011? Simply failing to abolish it does not count.
"15 nightspots closed"
Just wrong, no matter how many times you repeat it.
-Relic and Steamers - closed due to repeated violations of liquor regulations, specifically for serving after-hours.
-Parva - closed following harassment campaign by one or more residents in the Fairmont Plaza.
-Ri Ra - Arlington location closed at the same time, new restaurant in Georgetown replaced both.
-Parkers - closed (along with Sala Thai) by landlord Federal Realty, to make way for Williams-Sonoma, relocated from Friendship Heights.
-Hard Times - closed following personal financial difficulties caused by the owner's illness.
All the others that have closed have been replaced by other nightspots.
And downtown Silver Spring is doing just fine.
6:15: Yet "tiny" Fredericksburg is whipping the MoCo Council in the growth rate of new businesses. Humiliating!
7:40: The DLC was strengthened several ways, including the new "private sector" leader who is maintaining a government monopoly, the fake offer of allowing private sales to arbitrarily-chosen retailers who actually were never going to be chosen, and then using fake diversions like this to then drop the privatization issue altogether and move on to circus animals. Heckuva job, Brownie!
15 nightspots indeed closed, and very few were replaced. Residents have zero power to close a business via "harassment." One of your more desperate arguments, old sport.
Silver Spring is the only area with even a pulse, but aside from The Fillmore and Dave & Buster's, there aren't any Las Vegas-style nightclubs with big lines outside the last time I checked. Millennials are still going into D.C. for such options, even if those aren't exactly Vegas-level themselves.
Overall, Silver Spring is in big trouble, becoming a bedroom community without the daytime customer base to sustain restaurants.
"...aside from The Fillmore and Dave & Buster's, there aren't any Las Vegas-style nightclubs with big lines outside the last time I checked. Millennials are still going into D.C. for such options, even if those aren't exactly Vegas-level themselves."
What?
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