Developer to detail Apex Building replacement Wednesday in Bethesda
The current Apex Building in Bethesda
Carr Properties, the developer planning to demolish the Apex Building near the Bethesda Metro station, is scheduled to host a community meeting at 7 p.m. Wednesday at 4500 East West Highway in Bethesda to share its plans to replace the building currently housing the Bethesda Regal Cinemas. In February, the Montgomery County Planning Board approved Carr’s sketch plan for the site, which calls for two residential buildings and one office building with maximum heights of 290 feet. Carr is planning to coordinate with the Maryland Transit Administration so that a new Purple Line station can be constructed below the buildings while the buildings are being constructed.
Carr Properties' sketch plan for the site
County police to update community on body camera program
Montgomery County police leaders will detail the department’s new body camera program at a 7 p.m. meeting Monday with the public safety community group Safe Silver Spring at the Long Branch Community Center. Police officials including Assistant Chief Luther Reynolds will provide information about the expanding body camera program. Earlier this month police said about 700 county officers currently wear the cameras, with about 200 more expected to do so in the future. The community center is at 8700 Piney Branch Road in Silver Spring.
Quicken Loans National golf tournament begins in Bethesda
Pro golfers such as Rickie Fowler, Patrick Reed, Ernie Els and Stuart Appleby descend on Bethesda’s Congressional Country Club this week for the Quicken Loans National tournament. The four-day tournament starts Thursday and ends Sunday, although practice rounds will take place Tuesday and Wednesday. For more information about tickets, parking and who’s playing, see Bethesda Beat’s Guide to Quicken Loans National.
Public hearing on minimum wage increase bill scheduled for Tuesday
The community can weigh in Tuesday night on a new bill that would raise the county’s minimum wage to $15 per hour by 2020. The Montgomery County Council is hosting a 7:30 p.m. public hearing on the bill at the Council Office Building in Rockville. Council member Marc Elrich introduced the legislation in April that would raise the minimum wage in step increases in order to provide additional income to the county’s lowest earners. When it was introduced, council members said they hoped to coordinate the increases with neighboring jurisdictions as they did when they passed similar step increases to the minimum wage in 2014.
Council to receive update on Rockville school bus depot
County Council members are scheduled to discuss Tuesday the latest developments in the controversy over relocating parking for 410 school buses from the Shady Grove bus depot to a new site in Rockville. The public discussion about the shift is scheduled for 10:45 a.m. during the council’s meeting, after members meet in closed session to discuss a bid to acquire property for a “public purpose,” possibly to use as a bus depot rather than the proposed site at the Carver Educational Services Center parking lot. Nearby residents of the Carver lot have fought the proposal to park the buses at that site, which has caused county officials to search for other possible locations over the past two months.
Summer heat expected all week
Brace yourself for the heat—the National Weather Service predicts temperatures in the high- to mid-80s this week with the hottest day being a sunny Monday when the temperature may reach 90 degrees. There’s a 40 percent chance of showers Tuesday with a high of 89 degrees, Wednesday is expected to be sunny with a high of 84. Thunderstorms are likely Thursday and a sunny day with a high near 80 degrees is predicted for Friday. Nighttime lows are expected to drop to the upper-60s each night.
