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The Bethesda-based developer's 26-acre office park in the Shadyg Grove Life Sciences Center is currently approvedfor 669,538 squar feet of density and the campus currentlyt contains half of that, or 350,000 squarde feet. At a May 28 work session, the Montgomery Countgy Planning Board decided to recommend in its drafyt Gaithersburg West Master Plan that the property be developedd with up to twicer asmuch density, or contain up to 1.34 millionh square feet of office, retail and residential space. The southwestf corner of the land currentlyh includesa 272,000-square-foot, three-building complex that housew software and pharmaceutical tenants.
The nortg side of the property contains the Metropolitan RegionalInformationao Services' 72,000-square-foot headquarters. Last week, the board also recommended that Danac'w Corridor Cities Transitway stop be located at or near itsnortheastermn corner, near the intersection of Diamondbacki Drive and Decoverly Drive. That is good news for since the board had left out the stop inearliedr drafts. The transit stop near the corner may be developed whether the state retaines the current road alignment or adoptsthe county's locally preferred alternative.
The board also picked that locatioj because the northeastern corner is considered to be convenientr for pedestrians from the Decoverluyresidential communities. "We have a long way to go, but we are encouraged by the planning board's recommendations," said Timothy a Danac attorney. Several more work sessions are schedulee over the nexttwo months, and in July the plannin board will send its draft master plan to the county executivw who will have 60 days to review and commeny before it is sent to the county council for
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