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Article: Silver Spring: A Moderate Proposal
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- July 8, 1990
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For several years, the community of Silver Spring has been
bitterly divided by the prospect of overdevelopment. A proposal to
build a vast regional mall and office complex on a site that spans
Georgia Avenue near the intersection of Colesville Road has triggered
waves of angry resistance.
The project would dump many thousands of cars into surrounding
neighborhoods, obliterate historic Art Deco buildings and devour most
of the remaining open space in the heart of Silver Spring. The
rationale for the project, trumpeted by certain officials of
Montgomery County, is that only a regional mall with two full-scale
department stores can revitalize Silver Spring. Now that the
developer, Lloyd ...