Owner of Chevy Chase Apartment Buildings Reveals Redevelopment Plans

The Crescent at Chevy Chase could bring up to 125 units to Newdale Road

August 15, 2016 10:33 a.m.

The owner of a set of garden-style apartment buildings in Chevy Chase has filed plans to redevelop the property into two new apartment buildings with between 100 and 125 units.

Landmark Realty, which owns the five, three-story buildings with 41 apartment units known as the Newdale Mews Apartments, is seeking Planning Board approval to redevelop the property into two, 50-foot-tall apartment buildings with one level of underground parking.

According to new zoning and land use rules in the county’s 2013 Chevy Chase Lake Sector Plan, construction of the project can’t start until work has begun on the section of the Purple Line light-rail between Bethesda and Silver Spring.

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The 3929 Newdale Road property sits just north of the path of the Purple Line, just west of Connecticut Avenue and just south of a row of single-family homes.

Sketch plan for The Crescent at Chevy Chase apartments, via Montgomery County Planning Department

During debate over the Chevy Chase Lake Sector Plan in 2013, some residents of the single-family homes worried that proposed 55-foot heights for the Newdale Mews redevelopment would overshadow their properties

In the sketch plan application filed Aug. 1 with the county’s Planning Department, Landmark Realty said it’s proposing a significant landscaped buffer between the new apartment buildings and the single-family homes. It also said the top floor of the buildings will be set back five feet.

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Construction on the 16-mile Purple Line light-rail was scheduled to start late this year, but will likely be delayed after a federal judge’s ruling Aug. 3 ordering state and federal transit authorities to do an additional study of the project.

Construction has started on a 62-unit luxury townhome project on the east side of Connecticut Avenue from developer EYA. EYA is also partnering with the Montgomery County Housing Opportunities Commission to build a 200-unit, 112-foot-tall apartment building on the property. Construction on the apartment building is scheduled to start this year.

Construction on the first phase of a three-building, roughly 530-unit mixed-use project at the Chevy Chase Lake Shopping Center could begin in early 2018. The Chevy Chase Land Co. is partnering with Bozzuto Development. Phases two and three of the project also can’t start until Purple Line construction has started.

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