What is going on with Lakelands and Kentlands?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

I think the new Home Goods store taking Kmart's place will do well. It's supposed to be a Home Goods on steroids

LOL. While a discount TJMAX Home Goods store is a step up from KMart, it isn't exactly painting the picture of an appealing area to live. The area is very frumpy -Michaels, Ross Dress for Less, now TJMAX Home Goods -where is the Payless Shoes or As Seen On TV store? I guess those are coming in the next upgrade.

Lol

DC has a micheals and a Ross and an Applebee's and the live tgrircTarget.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I think the new Home Goods store taking Kmart's place will do well. It's supposed to be a Home Goods on steroids

LOL. While a discount TJMAX Home Goods store is a step up from KMart, it isn't exactly painting the picture of an appealing area to live. The area is very frumpy -Michaels, Ross Dress for Less, now TJMAX Home Goods -where is the Payless Shoes or As Seen On TV store? I guess those are coming in the next upgrade.

Lol

DC has a micheals and a Ross and an Applebee's and the live tgrircTarget.

And a lot of interesting restaurants and bars, a Metro station and historic rowhomes within 3 blocks. Please stop. The only faux town centers in the area with anything interesting going on are The Wharf, Mosaic and Pike and Rose. Those are tolerable and at least make an attempt at not being soul sucking. Everything else is bleh.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

I think the new Home Goods store taking Kmart's place will do well. It's supposed to be a Home Goods on steroids

LOL. While a discount TJMAX Home Goods store is a step up from KMart, it isn't exactly painting the picture of an appealing area to live. The area is very frumpy -Michaels, Ross Dress for Less, now TJMAX Home Goods -where is the Payless Shoes or As Seen On TV store? I guess those are coming in the next upgrade.

don't forget Whole Foods.

[Anonymous]

Commute to DC absolutely sucks—as does the high school. Pass.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There's a blood feud between the People of the Lake and the Kents. Outside of town people don't know, because there's a pact to bury the bodies locally and sell the houses to benefit the survivors, as long as the death was honorable and in service of the tribe. It's all very ritualized with swords and daggers so sometimes scores can be settled without fatalities, but lately tensions have gotten worse and Lake Nirvana is tinged red but not for any sort of holiday celebration sponsored by the citizen's association. If you catch my drift.

LOLOLOLOLOL!!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I think the new Home Goods store taking Kmart's place will do well. It's supposed to be a Home Goods on steroids

LOL. While a discount TJMAX Home Goods store is a step up from KMart, it isn't exactly painting the picture of an appealing area to live. The area is very frumpy -Michaels, Ross Dress for Less, now TJMAX Home Goods -where is the Payless Shoes or As Seen On TV store? I guess those are coming in the next upgrade.

Lol

DC has a micheals and a Ross and an Applebee's and the live tgrircTarget.

And a lot of interesting restaurants and bars, a Metro station and historic rowhomes within 3 blocks. Please stop. The only faux town centers in the area with anything interesting going on are The Wharf, Mosaic and Pike and Rose. Those are tolerable and at least make an attempt at not being soul sucking. Everything else is bleh.

Please stop. historic rowhomes or shit shacks... (btw nobody says rowhomes) Yes, you need to spend lots of time in coffee shops and cafes when you can't fit a coffee making in your kitchen let alone cook.

So few people want to live in the city, it's just what you do when you can't get a job in the burbs.

I'd rather hike, kayak, bike ride, play sports and connecting with friends then your faux life pretending to be something and always wishing to be more.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Commute to DC absolutely sucks—as does the high school. Pass.

Once you have some work experience you can get jobs in the burbs, get out of soul sucking DC and join the land of the living.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There's a blood feud between the People of the Lake and the Kents. Outside of town people don't know, because there's a pact to bury the bodies locally and sell the houses to benefit the survivors, as long as the death was honorable and in service of the tribe. It's all very ritualized with swords and daggers so sometimes scores can be settled without fatalities, but lately tensions have gotten worse and Lake Nirvana is tinged red but not for any sort of holiday celebration sponsored by the citizen's association. If you catch my drift.

LOLOLOLOLOL!!!!

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Commute to DC absolutely sucks—as does the high school. Pass.

QOHS sucks? So everything not in the top 4 high schools in the state sucks, since QO is 5th? Also, no one in the actual kentlands neighborhood shops in the development since the stores are all dumpy and cheap, only for groceries and chipotle or chick-fil-a. The people who shop in the actual shopping areas are just the people of the rest of gaithersburg and germantown.

[Anonymous]

I do not live in either of these neighborhoods, but to the OP's question...a part of it might just be math.

These neighborhoods started in late 1980s (1988 per Wiki). So if you moved in 1989-1995 and perhaps were in your mid to late 20s and starting a family, you are now early to mid 50s. Your kids are through college and on their own (hopefully). Would you stay in the neighborhood or perhaps move somewhere else, either for retirement, or downsize or closer in (or farther out for that matter)?

I am sure some is just normal life patterns, but the age of the neighborhood and the first residents came to mind for me.

[Anonymous]

It has always seemed so overpriced to me to be so far out. A friend lives there and claims to like it. I cannot believe what she paid for her house (for what she got.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

I think the new Home Goods store taking Kmart's place will do well. It's supposed to be a Home Goods on steroids

LOL. While a discount TJMAX Home Goods store is a step up from KMart, it isn't exactly painting the picture of an appealing area to live. The area is very frumpy -Michaels, Ross Dress for Less, now TJMAX Home Goods -where is the Payless Shoes or As Seen On TV store? I guess those are coming in the next upgrade.

Kentlands had a Payless, you missed it! It closed some time back.

[Anonymous]

1. QOHS is the 4th best school in MD.

2. If you think the stores are crappy, you haven’t been paying attention. We just got an excellent sushi place, run by guys who had a sushi place in DC. It’s called Kenaki. We’re going get a Mod Pizza. Sin and grin—a delicious taco place—just opened. The new movie theatre will be a luxury cinema—Cinepolis. Their other locations include Pacific Palisades and Manhattan.

If you don’t like it here, that’s fine, but at least use facts to back up your arguments.

[Anonymous]

Also, the Kmart won’t be replaced by Home Goods. It’ll be an At Home location.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I think the new Home Goods store taking Kmart's place will do well. It's supposed to be a Home Goods on steroids

LOL. While a discount TJMAX Home Goods store is a step up from KMart, it isn't exactly painting the picture of an appealing area to live. The area is very frumpy -Michaels, Ross Dress for Less, now TJMAX Home Goods -where is the Payless Shoes or As Seen On TV store? I guess those are coming in the next upgrade.

Kentlands had a Payless, you missed it! It closed some time back.

I think it is going up in luxury. It got rid of Payless and Kmart, and trashy movie theater. Adding a luxury cinemopolis, new Vasili's location in market square, and renovations to market square. Also the new cookie cafe which is SO good!