Montgomery Planning Department staff has recommended approving a proposal that would eliminate the Shell gas station on Old Georgetown Road and replace it with a one-story approximately 2,800 square-foot TD Bank building.
The bank would have onsite parking and a drive through teller.
If approved by the Planning Board, the move would mean the elimination of another one of downtown Bethesda’s gas station. The former location of the Eastham’s Exxon station at 7100 Wisconsin Avenue is now a construction site for a 12-story, 145-unit apartment building, while Eastham’s current site at the corner of Old Georgetown Road and Fairmont Avenue is slated to be redeveloped into a 17-story condominium project.
That would leave the Sunoco gas station at the corner of Wisconsin and Battery Lane downtown as well as the two Liberty stations near the corner of Bradley Boulevard and Arlington Road.
Planners wrote that neighbors living in the adjacent Christopher Condominium expressed “enthusiastic support” of the site plan.
The planning board is scheduled to review the project at its Sept. 18 meeting.