Wednesday, May 8, 2013
The 10th annual Bethesda Fine Arts Festival will be held May 11 and 12 at Woodmont Triangle, with more than 20,000 expected to attend.
The Bethesda Fine Arts Festival will take place the weekend of May 11, with its 10th anniversary celebration featuring more than 100 artists from around the country. The festival, which is produced by the Bethesda Urban Partnership and the Bethesda Arts and Entertainment District, is slated to draw more than 20,000 attendees during the weekend. Last year, there were somewhere between 20,000 and 25,000 people on the streets of Bethesda partaking in the festival. The attending artists cover a wide variety of artistic mediums, such as ceramics, glass, printmaking and photography. A complete list of artists who will be at the event can be found online at the Bethesda Urban Partnership’s website. In addition to the 130 artists, the festival …
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
The mixed-use apartment tower is under construction at 4800 Auburn Avenue.
Residents could be moving into a 17-story Auburn Avenue apartment tower as early as December. The development, known as Gallery Bethesda, is under construction at 4800 Auburn. When complete, it will feature 234 apartments and more than 4,600 square feet of ground-floor retail facing Del Ray and Auburn Avenues. First move-ins should begin by December 2013 or January 2014, according to Jad Donohoe of developers the Donohoe Companies. The last units will be released in May, Donohoe said. The mixed-use building will boast amenities including a rooftop pool with an outdoor kitchen area, a sundeck and clubroom, a fitness room and coffee bar, a dog walk and washing station and a business center. A leasing website further details the structure: …
Monday, March 25, 2013
A pedestrian plaza is planned between the hotel and a new office building to connect the Woodmont Triangle with the Bethesda Metro station.
The vision is taking shape for a 12-story Westin hotel and an 11-story office building between Woodmont and Wisconsin avenues on a two-acre site that houses the Connor Building, the Bethesda Court Hotel and several parking lots. A site plan and preliminary plan amendment for the two buildings are set to go before the Montgomery County Planning Board April 4. Developers Bernstein Companies are proposing a 222-room, 196,357-square-foot Westin hotel and 253,787-square-foot office building, 16,326 square feet of street-level retail for both buildings, 576 underground parking spaces, and a 36-foot-wide pedestrian pass-through between the two structures to connect the Woodmont Triangle with the Bethesda Metro station. The Bethesda business …
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
The bakery, which has been open on Rugby Avenue since 2003, will continue to sell online.
Bethesda favorite Just Cakes has announced that it has closed its Rugby Avenue storefront. The shop will continue selling its baked goods online. Its last day in Bethesda was Sunday, March 17. The news was first reported by Bethesda blogger Robert Dyer. The bakery will continue selling cookies, bars, breads and coffee for home delivery from the online store at www.justcakes.com, according to an online announcement. "It has been a wonderful opportunity to serve our customers in Bethesda, and the DC area as our community bakery, along with its littlest customers, have grown since our opening in 2003," reads an online posting. "We will always remember the many happy faces of our friends that have enjoyed our tasty offerings, birthday parties…
Monday, March 11, 2013
Check out an animation of the restaurant, which will feature a roof deck and two upscale dining rooms and could be open by July.
The restaurant planned to take over the second floor and roof deck of a new Woodmont Triangle commercial building has been dubbed “Roof,” and it could be open by July. “What we’re trying to accomplish is a nice rooftop dining atmosphere that transitions into a happening night spot in the evenings,” Tommy Joe’s owner Alan Pohoryles, who is behind the new restaurant, told Patch. Renovations and additions to an existing commercial building at Norfolk and Cordell avenues are underway. Check out an animation of the concept for the new space via Steven J. Karr, AIA Inc. Following its opening – sometime between the middle of July and the beginning of August – the bar and eatery will be open for dinner for the first few weeks, and then will open …
Thursday, March 7, 2013
With a Dunkin' Donuts and a new restaurant by the owner of Tommy Joe's planned, what else would you like to see in the new building?
Developers of a building that will house a Dunkin' Donuts and Baskin-Robbins and a new restaurant featuring a rooftop deck by the owner of Tommy Joe's are looking to round out its retail concept. The commercial project, located at the corner of Norfolk and Cordell avenues and dubbed Norfolk-Cordell II, is being developed by Park Place Properties. Construction is moving along at the site with renovations and additions to an existing commercial building. A sign outside the new building advertises a remaining 4,000 square feet of "prime first floor retail space" in the 10,000-square-foot building. The owner of Tommy Joe’s will lease the second floor and the roof deck, and there’s space for up to three more restaurants on the first floor, …
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Indian restaurant displaced by a Bethesda development has found a new home just around the corner.
A favorite Bethesda Indian restaurant has re-opened in the Woodmont Triangle after being displaced by construction of a Fairmont Avenue high rise. Haandi has re-opened at 7907 Norfolk Avenue, in the former Uptown Deli space. The construction of a 17-story high-rise displaced the former Fairmont Avenue eatery, along with other Bethesda mainstays Sweet Basil and Foong Lin. Demolition at the high-rise project site is expected to begin soon. Foong Lin was recently re-incarnated as the House of Foong Lin in the former Moon Gate space, Bethesda Magazine reported. Haandi managing partner Madan Sundriyal told Bethesda Now he was glad to find a nearby location and had hoped to stay in Bethesda to serve his loyal patrons. Correction: This article …
Thursday, February 28, 2013
A roundup of the top food headlines this month in Bethesda.
February was a newsy month in the Bethesda food scene. Patch broke the news this month that Harris Teeter has signed a lease to be the grocery tenant at a new mixed-use development at 8300 Wisconsin Ave. The new grocery store is expected to open in 2015. Also this month, we reported that Dunkin' Donuts is closing its Bethesda Avenue location after Bethesda Row management company Federal Realty did not renew their lease, which expires in May. The coffee shop has two new downtown Bethesda locations in the works. There was more news out of Friendship Heights from celebrity chef Bryan Voltaggio, Bethesda favorite Persimmon re-opened with a new look, Aroma Espresso debuted at the Montgomery Mall, and the new Prohibition-style bar and grill …
Friday, February 8, 2013
Studios are planned as a part of a mixed-use residential development at the site of a BP gas station.
More artist studios are planned for downtown Bethesda as a part of a 17-story, mixed-use residential development at 4990 Fairmont Ave., detailed Friday morning at a meeting of the Woodmont Triangle Action Group. Bethesda community leaders have long pushed for more artist workspace downtown. Studios planned for the Trillium development at Wisconsin Avenue and Battery Lane fell through when the development project fizzled. The studios are planned for the ground floor of the high-rise at 4990 Fairmont, a site at the corner of Old Georgetown Road where a BP gas station currently sits. Two thousand square feet of artist work space will border retail space and a residential lobby on the ground floor of the development, said property owner Thomas…
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Thursday, February 7, 2013
Harris Teeter will "elevate the project to its full potential and will be a great addition to the surrounding neighborhood," developers said in a Thursday announcement.
The mixed-use residential development at 8300 Wisconsin Ave. that will bring a Harris Teeter to the Woodmont Triangle is set to open in spring of 2015, developers StonebridgeCarras said Thursday in a press release. Patch broke the news Wednesday that Harris Teeter had finalized a lease with Stonebridge, though developers would not confirm that the North Carolina-based grocery chain was the project's grocery tenant. More details emerged today as Stonebridge confirmed the news in an announcement. Harris Teeter has signed on to a 20-year lease for a 50,000 square-foot store planned as a part of the nine-story, mixed-use residential and commercial building, according to the statement. The project is set to break ground in April. The store, …
Michael Smith
8:04 am on Wednesday, April 3, 2013
It would be nice to have some kind of price range to know what people in Bethesda will be looking forward to paying. Sounds like you'll be going for the "luxury" market with unrealistic rents like Upstairs at Bethesda Rowe. I guess new affordable housing is too much to ask for and my guess is you guys will be $1,800+ for a efficiency, 2k+ for 1br, 3k+ for 2BR. If I'm wrong I'll be shocked but it … more ›