Montgomery Community Media

It’s the end of an era for two retail stores in the Silver Spring area. The Kmart in Aspen Hill and the Sears in White Oak are closing permanently. Both Sears and Kmart are owned by Transformco. The announcement about Kmart was made on the store’s local Facebook page on Jan. 28: “We were gearing […]

The Sears at the Lakeforest Mall in Gaithersburg is closing in December. It’s among nearly 100 other Sears stores that will be closing by December. This news, first reported by USA Today, comes weeks after the company that owns Sears and Kmart confirmed that 26 other locations will close by October. Larry Costello, the PR […]

At the August 6 Rockville City Council meeting, the leaders’ decided not to pursue annexation of the Shady Grove Road property after the Gaithersburg Council voted to annex the Sears property. In this video clip, Rockville Mayor Phyllis Marcuccio comments on the need for Rockville’s expansion plan to be very agressive to annex other properties. […]

At the August 6 Gaithersburg City Council meeting, the annexation of the Sears property was on the local leaders’ agenda. In this video clip, Gaithersburg City Council member Ryan Spiegel explains why he supports the annexation. Take a look.

Gaithersburg City Council approved annexation of the Sears property on Shady Grove Road despite vigorous opposition from Rockville City officials.

At the Aug. 6 Gaithersburg City Council meeting, City Attorney Lynn Board provides the details of the annexation agreement of the “Sears property.”

Gaithersburg wants to annex 28 acres of land off Shady Grove Road and near Route 355 near Montgomery County’s Solid Waste Transfer Station. There’s also a petition to change the zoning to mixed use. The city of Rockville opposes the annexation and Montgomery County Council member Nancy Floreen says the county does not want to […]

The Montgomery County Council’s Planning, Housing and Economic (PHED) Development Committee will hold a work session at 2 p.m. on Monday, June 11 to discuss the city of Gaithersburg’s petition to annex approximately 27.9 acres of land located near Frederick Road (Route 355) and Shady Grove Road, generally referred to as the Sears/Great Indoors Property […]