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Article: A Slow, Sure Bloom After the Boom; Developments in Silver Spring Gain Momentum After Years of Planning
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- The Washington Post
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- June 24, 2002
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At certain angles, parts of Silver Spring's Bauhaus architecture
and concrete cityscapes make the area look like the downtown of an
average American suburb from the mid-1960s, which is when large parts
of Silver Spring's commercial core were built.
In the past three years, however, the city that has long lagged
behind other inner suburbs, such as Bethesda and Arlington, in its
commercial development has attracted considerable activity. Discovery
Communications Inc. is moving its headquarters to downtown Silver
Spring, restaurants and apartments are opening every month, and the
city has an energy attached to its redevelopment that has been
lacking for decades.
Most of those projects were set ...