Photo by KCIvey.

Greater Greater Washington launched in February of 2008, and on February 16th, we’ll be celebrating the end of a successful second year.

Greater Greater Washington is a regional site, concerned as much with walkable communities and sustainable transportation in the suburbs as in downtown DC.

Montgomery County has been at the center of many urbanist debates in the last year, including White Flint, Gaithersburg West, the Purple Line, the Corridor Cities Transitway, BRT, affordable housing in Rockville, I-270 and the ICC, the Medical Center secret-or-not-secret underpass, the Silver Spring library skybridge, garage construction in Bethesda, and more.

Those are some of the reasons we’ll be celebrating in Montgomery County, at McGinty’s in downtown Silver Spring, just a few blocks from the Silver Spring Metro. (Google Maps shows the station in the wrong place; it’s You can exit in the direction north of the tracks, closer to that MARC symbol.)

Come to the upstairs bar area from 6:30-9:30 to meet your fellow readers, commenters, contributors, and a few local officials.

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Tagged: events, maryland, montgomery county, silver spring

David Alpert created Greater Greater Washington in 2008 and was its executive director until 2020. He formerly worked in tech and has lived in the Boston, San Francisco Bay, and New York metro areas in addition to Washington, DC. He lives with his wife and two children in Dupont Circle.