One of the few remaining gas stations left in downtown Bethesda closed this week to make way for demolition and development of a TD Bank branch.
The Shell station at 7628 Old Georgetown Road was closed and taped off Thursday, signaling that the already approved demolition of the facility could be coming soon.
The county approved a one-story, 2,800-square-foot TD Bank building for the site in September 2014.
The closure leaves the Sunoco gas station at the corner of Wisconsin Avenue and Battery Lane, an Exxon station along Old Georgetown Road and the two Liberty stations at Bradley Boulevard and Arlington Road as the only ones remaining in rapidly urbanizing downtown Bethesda.
Other former gas station sites have been bought and redeveloped.
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 the current site of Eastham's at the corner of Old Georgetown Road and Fairmont Avenue is slated to be redeveloped into a 17-story condominium project. It no longer operates as a gas station.
The Shell station at Old Georgetown Road and Woodmont Avenue is now closed. Credit: Andrew Metcalf
