Comments Off on Maier Warner selected for Pike District Placemaking and Branding contract
As this week’s White Flint Downtown Advisory Committee meeting, it was announced that Maier Warner was awarded the county contract for placemaking and branding in the Pike District. Kris Warner from Marier Warner Public Relations/Marketing explained their plans, which include social media, a website refresh, placemaking events, placemaking infrastructure, and other marketing will be part of their placemaking and branding campaign.…
Comments Off on The Pike District/White Flint area is the star of the Best of Bethesda
There are so many Pike District restaurants, stores, and other establishments in Bethesda Magazine’s 2019 Best of Bethesda that the Pike District did a series of posts highlighting all the winners.
Check out this series of articles and learn how the Pike District/White Flint area dominated this year’s Best of Bethesda list.…
Comments Off on The Pike District Community Bonfire was amazing!
250 to 300 friends and neighbors enjoyed s’mores and music around a roaring campfire in Wall Park. Enjoy these photos from the Pike District’s terrific Community Bonfire.
The Pike District was featured on last night’s NBC4 local news! (Look around the 50 second mark for our own executive director, Amy Ginsburg, being interviewed by Chris Gordon.) You can see the short clip here.…
Comments Off on Pike District Discussed in National Magazine
The Commercial Real Estate Development Association published an article “Retail Streetscape Redevelopment” that featured the Pike District in their spring magazine. (You can read the part about the White Flint area below.)
Landowners Come Together in Maryland
Property owners in the White Flint sector of Montgomery County, Maryland’s Rockville Pike corridor have proposed turning part of “the Pike” — now a typical suburban commercial strip highway — into a walkable boulevard, and have created a special revenue district to help fund the transformation.…
Comments Off on Urban Land Institute to provide recommendations on Pike District branding
The Urban Land Institute, an urban planning nonprofit, will join the White Flint Downtown Advisory Committee today to lead a Technical Assistance Program to discuss how to brand the developing area around the White Flint Metro station as the Pike District. The name Pike District was chosen by a group of developers, businesses and residents in 2014, but isn’t widely used by locals yet.…
Comments Off on Friends of White Flint on the TV News
It’s hot and humid enough to wring water from air, so today we have a very short blog.
On yesterday’s Fox5 news, there was a story about the litigation over White Flint Mall and what the future holds for the White Flint area. Check it out here.
Also posted yesterday was a video about the White Flint Mall, #PickthePike, and our area on Montgomery Community Media. …
Comments Off on How do you make it easier to walk and bike around a community?
According to this article, there are six things a community can do to encourage people to ditch heir cars and instead walk or bike as the go about their day. Here’s how the Pike District scores on each.
1) Stop building cul-de-sacs and bring back the grid
(Yes — the Pike District is developing a robust grid throughout the White Flint area.)
2) Change zoning rules to allow for density and mixed-use development.
