GaithersburgThursday, November 12
Pulte files sketch plans for hundreds of homes at Watkins Mill Town Center
The Daily Rockville team
If you've watched Gaithersburg fill in along Watkins Mill Road, here's the next piece. Pulte Home Company has submitted a sketch plan to the City of Gaithersburg for Phase II, about 18 acres between Urban Avenue and the CSX railroad tracks. The plan is some 300 homes in a community that will provide more than 1,000 homes, Gaithersburg Patch reported, citing Washington Business Journal.
Up to 254 townhouses lead the Phase II plan
Source: The MoCo Show
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| Value | |
|---|---|
| Townhouses | 254 |
| Two-over-two units | 68 |
| Live/work units | 14 |
- Developer's statement: up to 280 for-sale homes, plus live/work units
- Final number and mix: decided in later approval stages
- Live/work units: could provide about 8,700 square feet of extra commercial space
Town Center Boulevard would be extended from West Watkins Mill Road to Parkview Avenue. The developer says the new connections should reduce traffic through the existing Parklands neighborhood. Plans for the larger town center date back to the early 2000s.
Phase II would be a mixed-use neighborhood
- 18 acres
- proposed site between Urban Avenue and the CSX tracks
- More than 40%
- of the property expected to stay open area
- 6,500 sq. ft.
- of commercial, retail or personal service space
- 10,000 sq. ft.
- community amenity area with clubhouse, pool and playground
Source: The MoCo Show
Sources: Gaithersburg Patch, The MoCo Show