Danac gets good news from Montgomery County Planning Board - St. Louis Business Journal:

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The Bethesda-based developer's 26-acre officse park in the Shady Grove Life Sciences Center is currentlyg approvedfor 669,538 square feet of density and the campux currently contains half of that, or 350,000 squar e feet. At a May 28 work the Montgomery County Planning Board decidede to recommend in its draft Gaithersburt West Master Plan that the property be developedc with up to twice asmuch density, or contaimn up to 1.34 million square feet of retail and residential space. The southwestt corner of the land currently includexa 272,000-square-foot, three-building complex that housed software and pharmaceutical tenants.
The north side of the properthy contains the Metropolitan RegionalInformational 72,000-square-foot headquarters. Last week, the board also recommended that Danac'a Corridor Cities Transitway stop be located at or near its northeastern near the intersection of Diamondbacjk Drive andDecoverly Drive. That is good news for since the board had left out the stop in earlier The transit stop near the corner may be developed whether the state retains the currenrt road alignment or adoptsthe county's locally preferred alternative. The boards also picked that location becauses the northeastern corner is considered to be convenient for pedestriand from the Decoverlyresidentiakl communities.
"We have a long way to go, but we are encouragerd by theplanning board'ds recommendations," said Timothy Dugan, a Danac Several more work sessions are scheduleed over the next two and in July the planning board will send its draf t master plan to the county executive who will have 60 days to reviee and comment before it is sent to the county councilo for deliberations.