Yesterday, BethesdaNow.com reported the latest concept announced for Pike & Rose: a beer garden. Coming from the Neighborhood Restaurant Group, parent company of Rustico & Evening Star in Alexandria and Churchkey and Birch & Barley downtown, the concept will combine a “world class beer program” with a “distinct culinary program to match,” according to a press release.…
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We are often asked about the plans for many existing tenants throughout the White Flint district. News emerged today about the status of Dave & Busters at White Flint Mall. Read the Washington Post article by clicking here.…
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The March meeting of the White Flint Implementation Advisory Meeting, regularly scheduled for next Monday, has been cancelled. Now everyone is available to attend the duration of our Happy Hour and Developer’s Showcase:
The next morning, the White Flint Downtown Advisory Committee will be meeting at 8am at Lerner Enterprises, 2000 Tower Oaks Boulevard.…
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The new street and sidewalk grid that is coming to the White Flint district will bring many positive features to our area. The grid is designed around the beneficial walkability elements that we hope to encourage residents to follow throughout the region. These development projects and road projects use various walkability strategies that work for many areas across the world but the success of the new White Flint district really comes down to the question of whether people will actually walk or bike around the new projects, sidewalks, and bike lanes being built.…
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A recent article from Aaron Kaut of Bethesda Now highlighted t a poll commissioned by The Coalition for Smarter Growth and Communities for Transit and completed by Mason-Dixon Polling & Research to see how Montgomery County residents support the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) plan. In November, the BRT proposal was passed by the Montgomery County Council “to study and design 10 BRT corridors throughout the county.”
The organizations polled 400 Montgomery County residents and found that “71 percent of likely Montgomery County voters support a BRT system, while 22 percent oppose it.”
The poll took place from January 22-23rd, 2014.…
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What if you could reach everything you could possibly need within 20 minutes of leaving your front door? This is a movement that is stretching across the globe – from Melbourne, Australia, to Portland, Oregon – and is exactly what we’re talking about for little ol’ White Flint, Maryland. A 20-minute neighborhood offers food, schools, parks and transit within a short walk from your home.…
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As Mayor Bill De Blasio begins his role as Mayor of New York City, people are now examining all the changes the last mayor, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, brought to the city.
Bloomberg and his staff succeeding in changing the built environment of New York City to better the safety and well-being of its residents.…
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In a follow up to our post from yesterday, it seems that bicycles are now outselling cars in almost every European country. In his article, NPR’s Krishnadev Calamur and his colleagues examined figures from “27 member states of the European Union for both cars and bicycles.” They found that in 25 out of the 27 countries they looked at, bicycles outsold cars.…
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Car-centric travel was once the model every city, town, and country wanted to follow. In the height of motorization, the U.S. became the role model for the rest of the world for car production and travel. This gave room for other parts of the world to develop other strong modes of transportation.…
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Mark your calendars, members! Friends of White Flint is having its first event of the year. On March 10th, we will be hosting a showcase and happy hour event at Paladar Latin Kitchen and Rum Bar. This free event will showcase both the public and private development projects set for the White Flint district. Come as you please, take a tour of the projects on display, interact with other FoWF members, sample some delicious food, purchase a drink at the cash bar, and listen to remarks from both County Councilmembers Roger Berliner and Hans Riemer.…
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