Friends of White Flint

Mark your calendar for our Community Meeting on June 20th

Posted on April 23, 2018 by Amy Ginsburg

Posted on April 20, 2018 by Amy Ginsburg

Spring sure has been reluctant to arrive this year, hasn’t it? Everyone knows that April showers bring May flowers, but this seems a trifle excessive. That’s why we’ve decided to try to move spring along with the positive thinking that comes from a feel-good SALE!

Get $10 off seated and standing tickets to the following shows using promo code SPRINGFLING. …

Posted on April 18, 2018 by Amy Ginsburg

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Washington Business Journal reporter Daniel J. Sernovitz recently wrote a lengthy article about the White Flint area that looks in depth into the strengths and weaknesses of our community from a development perspective. The article, titled The Hunt for HQ2: How a former shopping mall could become Amazon’s second home, centered around Amazon’s search for a second headquarters also looks at the rest of the developing area and is very much worth a read. …

Posted on April 17, 2018 by Amy Ginsburg

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Seventh State is doing a series of posts based on our District One Candidate Forum. The first blog post focuses on the answers given by the candidates about what they think about Amazon possibly making their second headquarters in the White Flint area. The second blog post concentrates on the increasing levels of county government debt.…

Posted on April 16, 2018 by Amy Ginsburg

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Friends of White Flint Executive Director Amy Ginsburg was honored to be invited to cut the ribbon last week on our new Bikeshare stations!

Montgomery County Executive Ike Leggett celebrated the installation of eight, new, Bikeshare stations in the Pike District and Twinbrook, bringing the County’s total Capital Bikeshare network to 82 stations.…

Posted on April 13, 2018 by Amy Ginsburg

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We will post a much more comprehensive summary and story on what the candidates said during our incredibly successful District One Candidate Forum on Monday, but today, I want to thank some folks and share some photos and links to the tweets and videos of the forum.

First, thank you to the Bethesda North Conference Center who generously donated the space for our forum. …

Posted on April 11, 2018 by Amy Ginsburg

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Please join Friends of White Flint and others on Thursday, April 12, 2018, 10 a.m., at the Bikeshare Station at White Flint Metro located on the east side of 355, just north of Marinelli Road, Rockville

Montgomery County Executive Ike Leggett will participate in a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new Bikeshare station at White Flint Metro.…

Posted on April 10, 2018 by Amy Ginsburg

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Don’t forget to RSVP to info@whiteflint.org!…

Posted on April 9, 2018 by Amy Ginsburg

Comments Off on MoCo proposes to shorten development review process for Amazon HQ2

On Tuesday, County Council will vote on a proposal to cut in dramatically decrease the time of the development review process for companies, like Amazon, that bring more than 25,000 employees to an area near a Metro station in the county. That means they will do the review in sixty days.…

Posted on April 6, 2018 by Amy Ginsburg

Comments Off on We were honored to be part of the opening celebration of Canopy by Hilton

What a spectacular celebration of the opening of Canopy by Hilton! We were honored to join the CEO of Hilton and CEO of Federal Realty as well as some of the hundreds of others who helped create this wonderful hip, exciting new hotel at Pike and Rose. Enjoy these pictures of the fun-filled event.…