Editor’s note: This guest post and photo is from Jonna Huseman, who began the Voices project to document the lives of friends and neighbors in Silver Spring and Takoma Park and how they may have changed since the shelter in place order. It originally appeared on her blog, The Sligo Creek Photographer.
Employees and customers of certain retail outlets in the county are now required to wear face coverings during the COVID-19 emergency, according to a health order issued by Travis Gayles, M.D., the county’s health officer. The order, effective today (April 13), covers grocery stores, pharmacies and large chain retailers (“big-box” stores), as well as farmers markets.
Ellsworth Place officially opened a reconstructed indoor playground with a ribbon-cutting ceremony held in the ground floor space Feb. 20. The $300,000 project is the first in a number of upgrades planned for the mall in the next 12 to 18 months.
Don Pollo Peruvian Chicken is not coming to Ellsworth Place, contrary to what was previously reported elsewhere. However, Don Pollo—Pollo al la Brasa, will open in the space formerly occupied by Noodles & Co., according to Bryan Ramos of Retail22, who brokered the lease agreement with the mall’s owner, GBT Realty.
The Koiner Farm in downtown Silver Spring has been granted the county’s first conservation easement for urban agriculture. The easement, in partnership with the Maryland Environmental Trust, permanently protects the one-acre from ever being developed.
Investigators from the county police’s 3rd District Patrol Investigation Unit have released surveillance video from a theft that occurred in Ellsworth Place at 8661 Colesville Rd. The incident took place at approximately 9:45 p.m. on March 25 in the Trendy Nails & Spa Salon, police said. The two suspects, a male and a female, watched as an employee counted the day’s … Read More
Mayor Muriel Bowser, Councilmember Brandon Todd (D-Ward 4) and local residents joined Target employees last night for a ceremonial ribbon cutting and soft opening of a new store at Georgia and Eastern avenues.
“Old farmers never die. They live on in the tenderly nurtured soil and in the future promise of their seed.”
Ellsworth Place in downtown Silver Spring is officially under new management and ownership, according to a post on the mall’s Facebook page.