Montgomery County Planners Want Feedback on ‘White Flint 2’

Plan could be impetus for major redevelopment north of Montrose Parkway; open house set for June 17

June 1, 2015 1:38 p.m.

Montgomery County planners will restart their work this month on a plan that could be the impetus for major redevelopment of 290 acres situated around Rockville Pike.

The White Flint 2 Sector Plan encompasses the horseshoe-shaped area on either side of Rockville Pike between the original White Flint area and the official southern boundary of the City of Rockville.

It includes office buildings along Executive Boulevard, the Montrose Crossing Shopping Center, Pike Center, Randolph Hills Shopping Center and a section of light industrial buildings along Parklawn Drive.

An open house June 17 at Luxmanor Elementary School in North Bethesda will be the Planning Department’s first public event on the White Flint 2 Sector Plan since a community meeting in 2012. Work on the plan has been delayed ever since while the County Council identified other priorities.

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Community residents and business owners are invited to the 7 p.m. open house to hear about goals for the plan and to ask questions.

Planners will erect a “graffiti wall” at the event on which participants can provide their feedback on initial ideas.

Those initial ideas could include mixed-use development that would make the area look and feel more similar to what’s planned in White Flint. The sector plan for that area was completed in 2010.

Pike & Rose, the project transforming the former Mid-Pike Plaza Shopping Center just south of Montrose Parkway, is the first major development to come as a result of the White Flint Sector Plan.

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There’s a sense among many—including County Council members—that White Flint 2 is due for a similar transformation now.

“There’s money to be made there,” council President George Leventhal said in April, just before the council moved up White Flint 2 in the Planning Department’s work schedule. “White Flint 2 has the nearest-term opportunity to grow our tax base significantly. I don’t think it’s especially controversial.”

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