Thursday, March 22, 2012
Montgomery County Council will vote on Wheaton Redevelopment funding on April 10.
In their first meeting since the release of senior legislative analyst Jacob Sesker’s alternate $55 million redevelopment plan, members of the Wheaton Redevelopment Advisory Committee (WRAC) invited two county officials—Greg Ossont, deputy director of the Department of General Services and Adam Fogel, chief of staff for Councilmember Nancy Navarro—to help clarify the future of Wheaton’s redevelopment. The committee also discussed changes to the WRAC charter and some impending improvements to Price Street. Rob Klein, of the Department of General Services, opened the meeting with a review of recent redevelopment issues, including announcing that Lowe Enterprises plans for the “Computer Building” located at 11141 Georgia Avenue are moving …
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
WRAC meets the third Wednesday of every month.
The Wheaton Redevelopment Advisory Committee meets from 7-9 p.m., at the Mid-County Regional Services Center. Here's a look at the agenda for the March 21 meeting:
Thursday, February 16, 2012
The Wheaton Redevelopment plans are in "steep competition with a number of other projects," the director of the county's Department of General Services told the Wheaton Redevelopment Advisory Committee on Feb. 15.
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- Ben Gross
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Thursday, February 16, 2012
The Wheaton Redevelopment Advisory Committee (WRAC) welcomed two guests to its Feb. 15 meeting to discuss the on-going preparation for Wheaton’s impending redevelopment, ranging from high-level project overviews to more granular aspects of working with individual businesses in Wheaton. Montgomery County Department of General Services Director David Dise provided an update on where redevelopment funding stood in discussion among county councilmembers, and which aspects of the project county funding would cover. Ana Lopez van Balen, the director of the Mid-County Regional Services Center, shared her recent work with small businesses in Wheaton and an update on plans for a small business program in conjunction with General Services. Van …
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
The property at 11501 Georgia Avenue is in limbo with no active plans for redevelopment.
During the October WRAC Meeting, Chris Todd of Alliance Realty presented his company’s plans to develop the property currently known as the BB&T Building at the intersection of Blueridge and Georgia Avenues into a mixed-retail space with 255 apartments. Now, just two months later, those plans are defunct, leaving a hole in Wheaton’s redevelopment. Alliance Realty had contracted with AvalonBay Communities to take over the project after Avalon dropped its own plans to transform the space into a mixed residential-grocery project--as Patriot Realty planned a Safeway, parking and residential complex just a few blocks south on Georgia Avenue. Patch spoke with two employees of Alliance Realty—at the Reston, VA office and Alliance’s national …
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Thursday, January 19, 2012
The committee also discussed the Capital Improvement Program budget and Green Wheaton.
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- Ben Gross
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Thursday, January 19, 2012
For their first meeting of 2012, the Wheaton Redevelopment Advisory Committee (WRAC) invited representatives of Lowe Enterprises to share the company’s plans for redeveloping the building at 11141 Georgia Avenue. Meeting in the Mid-County Services Center, WRAC also learned about changes to the budget for the Wheaton Redevelopment Program, received subcommittee and Green Wheaton updates and welcomed former WRAC chair Karen Cordry to discuss neighborhood concerns over the potential parking waiver for Westfield Wheaton. Lowe Enterprises: Following a brief redevelopment update--including the announcement that concrete pouring on the new Safeway will begin in February—the WRAC committee welcomed Mark Rivers and Stacy Silber to present Lowe …
Thursday, December 22, 2011
Presentation from Maryland Small Business Development Center demonstrates available support for small businesses.
- GOVERNMENT
- Ben Gross
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Thursday, December 22, 2011
Correction: The original article mistakenly implied that the Kensington Heights and Kensington View civic associations have officially opposed Costco's parking waiver application. In a letter attached to a Patch article regarding the waiver, the KHCA complained to the Department of Permitting Services about the process of review, but did not officially oppose the waiver. We regret the error. With small business the main focus of a two-hour session, the Wheaton Redevelopment Advisory Committee (WRAC) convened in the Mid-County Regional Services Center for its final meeting of 2011. WRAC welcomed Casey Wilson of the Maryland Small Business Development Center to discuss his center’s resources for Wheaton businesses, reviewed redevelopment …
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
A guest speaker will talk about small business resources.
The Wheaton Redevelopment Advisory Committee will convene at 7 p.m. for its December meeting in the Mid-County Regional Services Center on Reedie Drive. At last month’s meeting, WRAC discussed mitigating the impact of redevelopment on small businesses. Luis Bonilla presented a petition with 300 signatures in support of the priorities of the Coalition for the Fair Redevelopment of Wheaton. Here’s what might be on the agenda for tonight’s meeting: The meeting is scheduled to end at 8:30 p.m.
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Thursday, November 17, 2011
At its November meeting, WRAC addresses small business, Green Wheaton and public concerns.
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- Ben Gross
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Thursday, November 17, 2011
The Wheaton Redevelopment Advisory Committee (WRAC) gathered in the Mid-County Services Building on Nov. 16 to discuss a number of issues related to Wheaton’s ongoing redevelopment, focusing mainly on aspects of the plan that will affect small businesses. WRAC also received a Green Wheaton update and allowed the public to air any concerns. The meeting was presented in a bilingual format, with an interpreter translating the conversation into Spanish. Mitigating the Impact of Redevelopment on Small Businesses: Following opening remarks by committee vice chair Jonathan Fink acknowledging five births among the board’s families since their last meeting, Joseph Capuano led a discussion of a petition submitted by the Coalition for the Fair …
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
WRAC meets the third Wednesday of each month at 7 p.m.
The Wheaton Redevelopment Advisory Committee's November meeting will take place tonight, from 7-9 p.m. in the large conference room of the Mid-County Regional Services Center, 2424 Reedie Drive. The committee will discuss mitigating redevelopment impacts on small businesses: the challenges, the tools available through the county's Department of Economic Development and WRAC support for issues raised by the Coalition for the Fair Redevelopment of Wheaton. WRAC will also hear a redevelopment report from Rob Klein, reports from its three subcommittees and an update from Green Wheaton. Members of the public are welcome to attend, and there is a time during the meeting in which they may request to speak.
Friday, October 21, 2011
The Wheaton Redevelopment Advisory Committee has not officially endorsed the potential move, but securing a government tenant for office space in downtown Wheaton would further WRAC aims.
The Wheaton Redevelopment Advisory Committee does not yet have an official position about the Montgomery County Planning Board’s recent decision to approve $200,000 for a feasibility study on moving the headquarters of the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission to downtown Wheaton from Silver Spring. However, there does not seem to be anyone on the advisory body speaking out against it. “I haven’t heard any opposition to it from the committee,” WRAC vice chair Susan Petersen said. “I think people are generally excited about it and hopeful.” Rob Klein, who presented the redevelopment report to WRAC at its Oct. 19 meeting, called the funding approval “a major step.” “It’s an opportunity to make an office complex,” said Klein…
Kathleen Michels
2:04 pm on Sunday, February 19, 2012
The elevators were not said in competition with Wheaton redevelopment just a short month ago. Now all of a sudden they want to give the 40 million instead to fund (JUST PART!) of the Bethesda metro elevators. WHY IS THAT EVEN A TRADE-OFF? Find other funds for the elevators. Over the past decade and more when something good is supposed to happen for Wheaton, the growing urban heart of montgomery … more ›