The Shell Shack Seafood will be relocating to Silver Spring, according to a post on the outlet’s Instagram account. The Caribbean-infused seafood truck will be located near Millennium Salon at 920 Gist Avenue in the South Silver Spring neighborhood, opening on Saturday, May 1 at 12 p.m. The truck is relocating from the Savor Food Hall in Brentwood, which changed ownership and concept last year.
Olazzo will close its downtown Silver Spring location at 8235 Georgia Ave., according to a post on the restaurant’s Facebook page. The restaurant’s last day will be Saturday, May 1.
Bump ‘n Grind will be closing its location at 1200 East-West Highway on Wednesday, May 26, according to an email announcement from owner David Fogel. The shop will move its operations to Moorenko’s Ice Cream on Georgia Avenue, and plans are still on track to open a kiosk at the Silver Spring Library.
Ellsworth Drive will be reopened as a pedestrian-friendly area with restricted traffic on May 10, officials with Downtown Silver Spring announced today (April 27). The street was opened to vehicles early in the pandemic to accommodate curbside pickup for restaurants and retailers faced with capacity restrictions and regulations limiting indoor dining.
DNA evidence from a sock has led to the arrest by county police of a suspect in a 2003 home invasion robbery in Silver Spring. Officers with the Major Crimes Division arrested and charged Stacy Howard Moore, age 48, of the 3400 block of 55th Avenue in Hyattsville in connection with the incident, which occurred on January 22, 2003 in an apartment in the 9100 block of Piney Branch Road.
Researchers at Silver Spring-based Walter Reed Army Institute of Research off of Brookville Road have begun a Phase 1 clinical trial of a new type of COVID-19 Vaccine, and area residents can help.
Blumen Lumen, the kinetic art installation at the corner of Georgia Avenue and Colesville Road, is now fully operational and the site is open to the public. The installation from the Foldhaus art collective is a 25-foot tall group of “flowers” that changes colors and opens and closes based on weather information from the National Weather Service, which is connected to the art’s controlling software.
Urban One’s proposal for a casino/resort in Richmond, Va. Is one of two finalists an evaluation panel is still considering, according to a report in the Washington Business Journal. The Silver Spring-based company announced its plans in February and was one of six original bidders on an economic development project.
The reopening of Kaldi’s Social House appears to have been pushed to April 30, according to a revised post on their social media profiles.