Hogan To Decide In May Whether To Continue With Purple Line — Gov. Larry Hogan will decide in mid-May whether to proceed with the Purple Line light rail project. The state recently bumped back by five months a deadline for private concessionaires hoping to build and operate the system. [Washington Post]
Is JBG Selling NoBe II Site? — A real estate brochure is touting the recently approved North Bethesda Market II site in the White Flint/Pike District as for sale. Chevy Chase-based developer JBG switched out an office building for an apartment building in the plans last year. The development approval includes a planned 300-foot-tall apartment building that would be the tallest in Montgomery County. JBG sold the first phase of North Bethesda Market, which includes a Whole Foods store, last March. [Bethesda Magazine]
Bethesda Native Charged In College Party Drug Incident — Zachary Kramer, of Bethesda, was one of four charged in connection with 11 hospitalizations among people who took the party drug Molly at a rave music show on Saturday at a school in Connecticut. [Baltimore Sun]
Liquor Control Review To Start Tomorrow — An ad hoc committee of the County Council will begin its review and possible reform of the county’s unique alcohol control model on Friday morning in Rockville. On Wednesday, The Gazette published a letter to the editor from area Councilmember Roger Berliner in which he called the county’s monopoly on alcohol distribution a failure. [Montgomery County Council] [The Gazette]
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