Wednesday, February 20, 2013
The Tower Companies will double the number of units and reconfigure retail and green space over the next two decades.
It's hard to imagine a downtown Silver Spring without the Silver Spring Metrorail station. But that neighborhood—suburban and car-oriented—was what birthed The Blairs, a 1400-unit collection of apartment buildings situated between Eastern Avenue and East-West Highway. Patch reported last December that The Tower Companies, which owns the apartment building, was creating a 15- to 20-year redevelopment plan. Last week the company unveiled specifics that will bring the development, which was completed in 1969, into the 21st century, said Edward Murn, director of development for the parent company. The plan, which is outlined online at www.blairsmasterplan.com, will double the number of apartment units and increase the commercial space from …
Monday, December 10, 2012
The parent company is looking to redevelop the site, but a public park may be far in the future.
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- Whitney Teal
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Monday, December 10, 2012
The Blairs, a residential and commercial development on East-West Highway, might be home to a public park in the future, but any plans are still premlinary, according to a representative from the development's parent company. Reports surfaced earlier in the month that part of the parking lot of Giant grocery store might become green space, but John Marcolin, planner coordinator/urban designer for Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission, told Patch that no formal plans have been submitted to his department. The parking lot was one of 13 sites studied as part of the planning department's Silver Spring Green Space Guidelines, a supplement to the Silver Spring Sector Plan. The sector plan called for more parks downtown but …
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Friday, June 3, 2011
Silver Spring apartment building installs charging station for electric vehicles.
- THE NEIGHBORHOOD FILES
- Ben Gross
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Friday, June 3, 2011
Recently, the company that manages The Blairs used a State of Maryland grant to install charging stations for electric vehicles. The Silver Spring apartment building is one of the few places in Montgomery County to have the cutting-edge equipment – there are additional outlets in Rockville. According to The Gazette as many as 80 stations are expected to be in operation at various locations throughout the state by the end of the summer. David Borchardt, the Chief Sustainability Officer for The Tower Cos. (the company that manages The Blairs) is very excited about the installation of the charging stations. “Tower wants to help provide the infrastructure that is needed to promote this change in our transportation. If people are actually …
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jag
1:13 pm on Wednesday, February 20, 2013
The large Studio Plaza project in Fenton Village and the church redevelopment at Wayne/Fenton both go before the MoCo Planning Board this week. That could definitely use a Patch write-up and digging to find out when ground-breaking is scheduled (if all goes well w/the Board). more ›