Montgomery County hopes to break ground in the summer of 2016 on an above-ground parking garage with about 650 spaces at the Bethesda North Marriott Hotel & Conference Center.
The project, which is at the conceptual design phase and requires additional county approvals, is related to the new, more pedestrian-friendly street grid planned for White Flint.
The county hopes to realign Executive Boulevard so that it runs straight across Old Georgetown Road and continues onto Grand Park Avenue, the entrance street at the Pike & Rose development project.
But straightening Executive Boulevard will mean losing some of the parking spots in the conference center’s existing surface parking lot. To replace those spots, the county plans to build the garage.
A new, two-lane east-to-west street called Market Street is also planned to cross the realigned Executive Boulevard and continue running through Rockville Pike.
Tina Benjamin, director of special projects for the county’s Department of Economic Development, said officials showed off a conceptual design Monday night at a public meeting on White Flint area transportation projects. The county’s Revenue Authority owns the conference center property.
Benjamin said the conceptual design (shown above) will likely change. For now, it includes five levels of parking with a skywalk connecting garage users to the conference center facility.
