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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I find everywhere in that area excessively crowded during the day - and small chaotic parking lots - and then desolate at night. I just don’t get the appeal and prefer VA.

I really don’t understand the rugged terrain of the roads.

Driving up Seven Locks at night is basically pitch black and the trees hover over and basically touch each other so you can’t see the sky! The houses seem all dark even if it’s early?  Idk [/quote]

Sure, the 16-lane roads in Tysons/McLean, where every traffic light takes five minutes to change, are so appealing and not at all chaotic :)[/quote]

Speaking of Tysons, go to Patsy’s back bar to watch a nighttime football game and then go to Quincy’s and report back with your findings.

Maybe go to the Boro to go grocery shopping and get a meal at North Italia or go the Capital One Center and go grocery shopping and get a beer at Starr Hill or a meal at Wren. Then go to Park Potomac to compare and contrast. The differences are incredibly stark, let’s just say. And Park Potomac is supposed to be a nice town center with $900,000 condos and $1M+ townhomes.[/quote]
This is such a weird comparison. Tyson’s is massive. There’s no equivalent on the Maryland side. Park Potomac is tiny compared to Tyson’s. Montgomery mall is more of a normal but still functioning nice mall (I never go to Tyson’s for mall things when Montgomery mall since good enough) , but doesn’t have the surrounding restaurants and commercial space that Tyson’s has. Bethesda row is probably the closest to North Italia’s scene. Like and rose also has some nice places like Caruso but it’s more normal, and ofc, pike and rose is much smaller than Tyson’s.

Maybe you’re just more familiar with stuff in the Virginia side. Us on the Maryland side have no shortage of places to go. Personally, for a lot of my more upscale outings I go to DC proper, it’s a 20 min drive from MoCo on River rd or Clara Barton. I don’t “go out” while staying in the suburbs[/quote]

[b]You literally have a humongous vacant lot at White Flint Mall that is currently used to train motorcycle riders across from a Whole Foods. It’s connected with a ridiculously oversized parking lot and strip mall with an Aldi. [/b]If both the White Flint Mall site and the Aldi strip mall site were developed that is a huge swath of land that can be used for development but neither Amazon or anyone else wants to deal with MoCo’s policies and invest in that area.

Likewise, there are multiple acres above the “North Bethesda” Metro that have sat vacant for decades and only recently were proposed for development in who knows what year. These places would have been developed 20 years ago in Arlington.
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That site is vacant because of the Lerners. It has nothing to do with the desirability of the area. The Lerners spent so many years fighting a scorced-earth battle against Lord & Taylor related to the mall that used to be there (https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca4/15-1995/15-1995-2017-02-28.html, https://thedailyrecord.com/2018/07/10/white-flint-costs/), and then sat and did nothing. That site would have been developed many years ago in any other developer's hands.[/quote]

The Lerners have nothing to do with that 13.9 acre (!!!) site above North Bethesda Metro sitting vacant for decades until Wes Moore and frumpy Marc Elrich got some development there recently, which probably won’t pan out until 2035 the way development is handled in this county.

https://governor.maryland.gov/news/press/pages/governor-moore-and-metro-announce-developer-selection-for-north-bethesda-transitaccessible-hub-for-housing-and-economic-dev.aspx

That a 13.9 acre site has been literally sitting as bushes and weeds above a Metro Station that is 3 stops from Bethesda for this long is nuts. It says a lot about the desirability of the area.

The Lerners have nothing to with the lack of progress on the redevelopment of Montgomery Mall, which has been in planning for almost a decade now and nothing has happened.

The Lerners have nothing to do with the lack of investment in redeveloping a place like Wheaton Mall, which sits atop a Metro and would have been redone ages ago if it were in DC, Arlington or Fairfax. [/quote]

What are you blabbing on about? The West Falls Church metro area was just redeveloped recently, so please stop acting as though every metro station in Nova is perfectly and optimally developed. There's basically nothing at East Falls Church, and that too could be redeveloped but zilch so far. There's also nothing at Dunn Loring, except for "plans." So many underutilized metro stations right in your backyard but somehow you care more about Wheaton?

And in any event, you're wrong about Wheaton. The area next to the Wheaton Metro has a new office building and about six new apartment buildings that were built within the past decade, so I'm not sure what you're referring to.

The Lerners are sitting on 44 acres at white flint, so your post is just disingenuous.

Sometimes Nova people really should look in the mirror at all the problems in their own backyard before throwing shade at Moco.[/quote]

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