{"id":3498,"date":"2013-02-12T15:13:41","date_gmt":"2013-02-12T15:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/?p=3498"},"modified":"2026-04-09T14:55:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T18:55:37","slug":"strides-in-twinbrook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/2013\/02\/strides-in-twinbrook\/","title":{"rendered":"Strides in Twinbrook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Good things are happening in Twinbrook, the small community sandwiched between White Flint and the city of Rockville, and planners can take some credit. Three years after the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.montgomeryplanning.org\/community\/twinbrook\/\">Twinbrook Sector Plan<\/a> was approved, the area has seen a number of positive changes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>More housing in an area that lacked housing<\/li>\n<li>Service-oriented retail, also previously scarce<\/li>\n<li>Green features, like a bike-share program<\/li>\n<li>Office construction<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Twinbrook Metro Station makes the community a natural place for growth, particularly residential growth. The Sector Plan calls for more residential units, and they have come.<\/p>\n<p>Residents of the new Twinbrook Commons, in the city of Rockville, are just steps from the Twinbrook Metro Station, making it a green development even without the bike share program and solar-powered trash compactor. Planners set the stage for Twinbrook Commons, a medium-density, mixed-use development, before Rockville annexed the area.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3502\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3502\" class=\" wp-image-3502 \" src=\"http:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Cyclist-by-Alaire-in-Twinbrook.jpg\" alt=\"The Alaire is a swank new apartment building a block from the Twinbrook Metro Station.\" width=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Cyclist-by-Alaire-in-Twinbrook.jpg 3628w, https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Cyclist-by-Alaire-in-Twinbrook-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Cyclist-by-Alaire-in-Twinbrook-1024x687.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3628px) 100vw, 3628px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3502\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Alaire is a swank new apartment building a block from the Twinbrook Metro Station.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Beyond residential development, the 18-story landmark Parklawn Building has been a catalyst for spin-off office development. In 2011, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services decided to <a href=\"http:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/?p=2319\">relocate to the Parklawn Building<\/a>. The HHS decision provided Twinbrook with a serious jobs boost. Across the street, a mixed office and retail building is under construction, and an agency within the National Institutes of Health is building on the large HHS surface parking lot.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3501\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3501\" class=\" wp-image-3501 \" src=\"http:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Twinbrook-office-construction.jpg\" alt=\"Construction across from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services building\" width=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Twinbrook-office-construction.jpg 2892w, https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Twinbrook-office-construction-300x280.jpg 300w, https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Twinbrook-office-construction-1024x956.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2892px) 100vw, 2892px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3501\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Construction across from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services building<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Home to one of Montgomery County\u2019s few light industrial areas, Twinbrook&#8217;s service industry includes a bevy of practical uses, from kitchen counter fabricators to automotive repair.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3503\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3503\" class=\" wp-image-3503 \" src=\"http:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Truck-driver-in-Twinbrook.jpg\" alt=\"Twinbrook's light industrial area thrives\" width=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Truck-driver-in-Twinbrook.jpg 3448w, https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Truck-driver-in-Twinbrook-300x181.jpg 300w, https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Truck-driver-in-Twinbrook-1024x618.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3448px) 100vw, 3448px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3503\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Twinbrook&#8217;s light industrial area thrives<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We were out in Twinbrook recently to film a Montgomery Plans cable show walking tour. Take the tour, with details provided by planner Fred Boyd, to see Twinbrook\u2019s progress.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/59575876\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" alt=\"MP39- Around Town: Twinbrook\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/59575876\">MP39- Around Town: Twinbrook<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/montgomeryplanning\">M-NCPPC<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Good things are happening in Twinbrook, the small community sandwiched between White Flint and the city of Rockville, and planners can take some credit. Three years after the Twinbrook Sector Plan was approved, the area has seen a number of positive changes:<\/p>\n<p> More housing in an area that lacked housing Service-oriented retail, also previously scarce Green features, like a bike-share program Office construction <\/p>\n<p>The Twinbrook Metro Station makes the community a natural place for growth, particularly residential growth. The Sector Plan calls for more residential units, and they have come.<\/p>\n<p>Residents of the new Twinbrook Commons, in the city of Rockville, are just steps from the Twinbrook Metro Station, making it a green development even without the bike share &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/2013\/02\/strides-in-twinbrook\/\" class=\"read-more\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[454,25,455,237,453],"class_list":["post-3498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","tag-light-industrial","tag-mixed-use","tag-office-construction","tag-twinbrook","tag-twinbrook-metro-station"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3498"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11204,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3498\/revisions\/11204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}