I recently took advantage of Ritz Camera's fire sale to upgrade from my circa 2003 Kodak to a decently nice DSLR. I got to experiment with it for the first time last weekend at the Hand Made Mart craft fair in Silver Spring, at which Girlfriend was a vendor - she sells map stationary.
Silver Spring is a suburban downtown immediately north of Washington, DC. In many ways it's an "uptown" district for DC. The craft fair centered on an infill development built earlier this decade, but much of downtown Silver Spring is older.
The infill development is centered around a very popular plaza.
The Discovery Channel and its associated empire of cable networks is based here.
The area definitely has a generic contemporary look to it, but as far as infill goes it is well laid out--the apparent success of the pedestrian area certainly attests to that.
Here is a reference map showing the location of the street fair, the infill development, the Discovery building, and the Metro station within the context of downtown Silver Spring.
I use to go to downtown Silver Spring quite frequently when I lived in PG county. Very urban area for a "suburb". Haven't been there in a while. These pics show me I should visit soon. Nice set Cirrus, glad the weather cooperated. Thanks.
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I've been inside the beltway for two years now (on the VA side), but I have yet to make it up either ends of the Red Line. Apparently, I'm missing out!
VTnardo, Silver Spring and Bethesda have a better mix of old/new buildings than the TODs along the Orange line in Arlington, and therefore have a more authentic-feeling character (that infill project in Silver Spring notwithstanding).
Overall, I rank Bethesda as the best suburban downtown in the DC region. It's like what you'd get if you combined Clarendon's character with Ballston's density.
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