Stores in Phase III

Back to the question of input from residents - Cliff, maybe you have a suggestion here...

I noticed now that Phase II is almost complete, that they're finishing up the "corner" where the fountain and outside seating for the restaurants will be. I believe it also has some lighting in now, and some columns for perhaps a "lanai" type area.

What's missing, yet appears in the plans on the Saul website, is a walkway or sidewalk up from the street intersection to that corner area. We're a community that boasts our nature trails, encourages walks around the community, and has a lot of residents that take advantage of those perqs.

Certainly, residents walking to that northeast corner are not going to walk another 3 blocks east to enter the shopping center through the Safeway Gas station. They're going to cut up the embankment to that corner fountain area. Saul's put it in the plans, but it looks as though the area has been seeded for grass - no sign of the sidewalk construction.

With no paved walkway there, I see a nice little dirt path - complete with dead grass in most months and mud during the wet months.

Before the developer puts a "wrap" on Phase II - can we petition them, nag them, or coerce them to install the sidewalk from the NE corner of BBlvd and CPkwy to the Phase II shops?

(And yes, I've emailed Saul Centers concerning this.)

[PS - Robeks looks pretty great!]

Dawne

 

FWIW .. there's a meeting of the BOD today, and we can bring that up as something to contact Saul about.



Neil Z.
Resident since 1999

 

Dawne-
Spoke to Saul Centers. The sidewalk WILL be installed.

 

Aha, Cliff has better contacts than I do.

Neil Z.
Resident since 1999

 

Yes, I guess Cliff has some mojo there....good to know, especially after this brush off email reply from Saul Centers:

Ms. Holz-
Please contact the leasing agent regarding your concern with Broadlands:
Sheena Richardson - 301-986-6298
Thank you very much.
Dee Dee Young
Saul Centers, Inc.
Webmaster
7501 Wisconsin Avenue
Suite 1500
Bethesda, MD 20814
Ph: 301-986-6016
Fax: 301-986-6148
Email: deedee.young@saulcenters.com


Dawne