Monday, July 25, 2016

Rockville construction update: 1900 Chapman Avenue (Photos)

Mystery project name. Mystery developer. Despite still being publicly known by an address and an LLC, construction is underway at the future 1900 Chapman Avenue development in Rockville. The project includes 319 apartments, 61 townhomes, office space, and 3 to 4 retail spaces.

Right now, concrete and asphalt have been demolished and cleared, and some grading work appears to be underway. You can see how close the townhomes will be to passing CSX, Amtrak, MARC and Metro trains in some of these photos, an issue raised by some planning commissioners during the approval process.

The site is bordered by the railroad and Twinbrook Parkway. It was previously home to Syms. From some angles, the current state of the site creates a surreal atmosphere. In the photo below of a Metro train passing the site, I can almost convince myself I'm standing near a CSX main line in Boyds or Adamstown. Almost.
















7 comments:

  1. do you do research? go on the city of rockville's website, look up the project, google the names on the development materials and it's being built by hines.

    that took 5 minutes.

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  2. Someone is having a bad case of the Mondays (9:28am).

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    1. Hines sold the project.....if you took more than 5 minutes you may have noticed that.

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    2. He was a 5-minute armchair blogger, criticizing, then accidentally vindicating my point about mystery.

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  3. We do not listen to understand. We listen to reply.

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  4. The proximity to Metro and CSX is no worse than Westside at Shady Grove, which is also adjacent to the waste transfer station. You couldn't give me a home in either location.

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    1. Folks will move in and then complain about the railroad noise and ask for CSX to cease operation..lol. I guarantee it.

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