Thursday, January 13, 2022

Developer seeks to convert Rockville office building to residential


The already-weak office market in Montgomery County hasn't been helped by the pandemic. Now a developer is seeking to convert a Rockville office building to residential apartments, and then add 17 townhomes to the surrounding property. A virtual public meeting on the proposal for 22 W. Jefferson Street has been scheduled for January 18, 2022 at 7:00 PM. 


To participate in the event, join the meeting at that time and enter Meeting Number (access code): 2633 580 7334 and Meeting Password: Y6MySgEaZ88. You can also join by phone (or for those joining by computer without a microphone) by dialing +1-408-418-9388 United States Toll, and entering Access Code: 2633 580 7334.

5 comments:

  1. WOW! This would be the worse site for a conversion to residential, primarily due to the proximity to the roadway. That's a state highway and the traffic volume and impacts of sound, vibration, and access, would give it a very low livability score. HARD NO!

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  2. huh? It's a 30 mph road with enough intersections that you're lucky if you hit that. Are there apartment buildings on quieter roads than a dinky street like Jefferson?

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    1. The posted speed is hardly ever obeyed in that area and if you'd visit it during anytime during the active day, particularly during the am/pm rush, you'd see this. This State roadway is by no chance a "dinky" street, but a bypass of the town center, specifically altered during the urban renewal period of the sixties, to create the now defunct Rockville Mall, and the remaing core of the town center. Additionaly, as a state road, all truck traffic follows this road from the southside of town to I270, surely not a quiet zone by any means.

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    2. No one said it's a "quite zone," but you're crazy to think Jefferson St. has a "very low livability score" because it's next to a couple lanes of slow-moving traffic. Most any apartment building in the region is going to be next to a road significantly more busy. That's why commercial-grade windows exist. Future residents will be fine.

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  3. why this not be scalled back to create senior housing for those that do not fit the requirements for lower in income housing or tge more expensive senior housing brought for mong term citizens of Rickville with ample parking. currently the city is forcing a lot of seniors out of the area due to costs. i am sure the developer can get some grant funding and work on it the property to orovide a better based living community for seniors here in Rickville that do not meet the requirements for lower cost housing .

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