Saul Centers is preparing to give a facelift to the Metro Pike Center at 11520 Rockville Pike in White Flint. The shopping center will receive a facade update in the coming months. Let's hope it is more retro than the replacement signage that was installed at the front of the property in the late 2010s. Lost were the totally 80s "Metro Pike Center" logo and background grid (see photo below), replaced by the most abominably-generic font and signage Max Headroom or Buckaroo Banzai could imagine in their nightmares (see photo at top). According to LoopNet, Metro Pike Center was constructed in 1990. White Flint is synonymous with the 80s, and that character should be retained to maintain the "sense of place" that Montgomery County planners give so much lip service to.
IT'S NOT IN WHITE FLINT!
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IT'S NOT IN WHITE FLINT!
IT'S NOT IN WHITE FLINT!
IT'S NOT IN WHITE FLINT!
Say this hypno phrase over and over until it sinks in. Get it?
Lipstick on a pig until the council decides to allow MCPD to enforce theft and robbery laws already on the books.
ReplyDeleteLook still look ugly.
DeleteI don't associate the 80's with anything except New Wave music. The latter was not my cup of tea.
ReplyDeleteSays Archie Bunker.
Delete1:11 A says the "ass-u-me-r".
DeleteMy God, can you actually believe that an Anthropologie© had a store there...
ReplyDeleteI remember at one point Saul planned to redevelop that property into an office/residential mixed use high rise. It would make sense given it is literally across the street from Metro. What happened to that plan?
ReplyDeleteToo many street people hanging out there!
ReplyDeleteHaha - Good memory and that does ring a bell. That center is beyond tired and is screaming to be redone as a center or mixed-use as you mentioned. I would prefer a center rather than a giant building. But that site could be almost anything. It's clearly big enough.
ReplyDeleteTotally off subject, but reminded by thar pic of old signage.... does anyone remember "Vicar Camera and Hobby" in that now named "Collect*on" shopping strip? The Saturday morning slot car races back in the 60's?
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