Nationwide Insurance opens new Rockville office (Photos)

Nationwide Insurance has relocated from Cordell Avenue in Bethesda to 751 Rockville Pike in Rockville. They are in Suite 6-B. The new office is next to the Marlo Furniture showroom.

The vacant Bethesda office
is now for lease

Rockville construction update: The Halal Guys (Photos)

The future home of The Halal Guys at Wintergreen Plaza has some Coming Soon signage up in the windows. There's still a ways to go inside, however. As you can see in the photo below, they are also hiring staff right now.

SunTrust posts Coming Soon signage at Rockville Town Square

SunTrust Bank has posted Coming Soon signage at its future home in Rockville Town Square. Their space at 100-A Gibbs Street was a bank in the past as well.

Gyroland opens in Rockville (Photos)

Gyroland has opened at 1701-B3 Rockville Pike, in the Shops at Congressional Village. They have a good selection of Greek appetizers, gyros, souvlaki, and loukoumades, which you might describe as Greek beignets. Gyroland is open from 11:00 AM to 10:00 PM daily (I believe they opened the morning after these photos were taken, because they were taken long before 10:00 PM).

Mr. Banh Mi closes temporarily, Miso Cafe dark at Rockville Town Square (Photos)

Mr. Banh Mi's dining room has been cleared out at the Ritchie Center on Rockville Pike. A sign in the window promises the closure is temporary, but offers no explanation.

On Sunday, Miso Fusion Cafe was dark during its regular hours. Paper was tacked up over the windows at the Korean fusion restaurant, which opened last year at 33-E Maryland Avenue, at Rockville Town Square. No sign was posted to explain the closure.

Urban Hot Pot to hold soft opening this Saturday in Rockville

Urban Hot Pot is just about ready to open at the Galvan development at 1800 Rockville Pike. They will hold a soft opening tomorrow, Saturday, December 9, 2017. Urban Hot Pot will be an all-you-can-eat hotpot spot, complete with rotating conveyor belt. It is right next to the already-open Akira Ramen & Izakaya. The restaurant is walking distance from the Twinbrook Metro station.

MoCo Council president Hans Riemer arrested

A Montgomery County Councilmember who has had trouble obeying the law in the past found himself in handcuffs Wednesday. Council President Hans Riemer was arrested on the steps of the U.S. Capitol by U.S. Capitol Police yesterday, after refusing an order to disperse following an immigration rally.

"I was arrested today," Riemer wrote on Facebook last evening. Riemer has promised to introduce legislation to declare Montgomery County officially a "sanctuary county" for illegal immigrants, according to Gustavo Torres, Executive Director of CASA de Maryland.

Riemer has run afoul of the law in the past, including violating his own Open Data law this past spring, when he directed that a file required to be posted on the County website be removed. In 2014, he appeared to have inside information on illegal activity in the County's Department of Liquor Control, over which he has oversight authority, but waited to report it until after he was safely reelected that November.