Comments on: I Want My Harris Teeter

By: Anne Lindenfeld

Anne Lindenfeld — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 02:17:34 +0000

Aha! Thanks for clueing me in on that important piece of local history. And I call myself a Washingtonian!?

This makes me wonder how many other historic buildings are the product of canine markings. There must be a book in there somewhere ….

By: Bonifant more sinister than Thayer

Bonifant more sinister than Thayer — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:10:16 +0000

The Falklands are historic because Fala peed on one of the trees.

By: Anne Lindenfeld

Anne Lindenfeld — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 11:50:24 +0000

These apartments are historically important? Am I missing something here? Did Eisenhower or Bill Gates sleep there or something?

I have stopped being surprised by how these historic preservation labels get tossed around these days. As a former resident of Savannah GA (oldest historic preservation zone in the nation), I just have a hard time thinking of a building constructed after 1940 as being historically important.

By: s.

s. — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:35:46 +0000

I don’t want to be labeled “against progress” (again), but I am so disappointed in the design and architecture of the building that has gone up around downtown Silver Spring (what a waste of the Canada Dry building!) that I will not get on board with taking down some of the lovely, treed, stable Falkland Chase. Don’t make me get Joni Mitchell on you folks, but it would be really nice if we could keep the tree preservation to a maximum, further cement and asphalt to a minimum, and for heavens sake, not build more places to require massive parking lots, parking garages, and create more angry grocery store-related traffic jams (see Whole Foods).

But I will show major support for overhauling the already built, already parking-ready, easily walkable Safeway.

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 17:23:54 +0000

I wonder if anyone who has signed up to testify is actually FOR this development.

By: Bonifant more sinister than Thayer

Bonifant more sinister than Thayer — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:44:08 +0000

SHOW ME THE HARRY TEET!! (we should bring beads to the hearing)

By: Brent

Brent — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 12:38:37 +0000

As I’ve said before, the Giant and Safeway union people — working, for once, in concert with management — will never let these stores into downtown SS. They will be strongly supported by “progressives” in the neighborhood who abhor non-union stores — but continue to shop at Whole Foods and Snider’s, because those businesses fit their socio-political worldview that small (or if not small, organic)is best. The rest of us have to learn to live with the situation — because having Wegman’s or Harris Teeter would make those other folks unhappy, and they do not like being unhappy with the types of businesses in “their” neighborhood.

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 04:29:10 +0000

I cry for the Wegman’s, and yearn for the Teet.

And I’m a bit disappointed with the Council for applying the Wal-Mart law to Wegman’s, though at this point, I suppose we should expect nothing less than idiocy from the council.

Newly-elected Councilmember Praisner just cast the deciding vote to trash a potential homeless shelter in Bethesda. I’ll let washingtonpost.com say it properly – that the motion was…:

“…supported by the then-president of the council, Marilyn Praisner, and [George] Leventhal. Praisner died in February. Her husband, Don Praisner, elected to succeed her, took the opposite position yesterday and provided the deciding vote.

No commentary – just take it for what it’s worth.

By: CeeSaw

CeeSaw — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:38:29 +0000

Bring the Teet! Bring the Teet!

By: Sligo

Sligo — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 23:47:54 +0000

No Wegman's for you. Thanks to Giant and Safeway and our quasi-socialist county government, I doubt one would ever get through the approval process.