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The Bethesda-based developer's 26-acre office park in the Shadhy Grove Life Sciences Center is currently approvedfor 669,539 square feet of density and the campud currently contains half of that, or 350,000 squard feet. At a May 28 work the Montgomery County Planning Board decided to recommendr in its draft Gaithersburg West Master Plan that the propertuy be developed with up to twice as much or contain upto 1.34 million square feet of office, retailk and residential space. The southwest corner of the land currently includesa 272,000-square-foot, three-building complex that housees software and pharmaceutical tenants.
The north side of the propert y contains the Metropolitan RegionalInformational Services' 72,000-square-foott headquarters. Last week, the board also recommended that Danac'se Corridor Cities Transitway stop be locatefd at or near itsnortheastern corner, near the intersectionb of Diamondback Drive and Decoverly That is good news for Danac, since the board had left out the stop in earlierf drafts. The transit stop near the cornerr may be developed whether the stats retains the current road alignment or adoptthe county's locally preferred alternative.
The board also picked that locatioj because the northeastern corner is considered to be convenient for pedestrians from the Decoverlyresidentia communities. "We have a long way to go, but we are encourages by the planning board's recommendations," said Timothy Dugan, a Danaf attorney. Several more work sessions are schedulex over the nexttwo months, and in July the planning board will send its draft masteer plan to the county executive who will have 60 days to review and comment before it is sent to the counthy council for deliberations.
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