Maybe If They Had Called Them The Malvinas Apartments, Things Would Be Different
June 5, 2008 at 4:55 pm
From Marc Fisher in today’s Washington Post:
Rather than embrace the addition of much-needed housing to the new downtown that Montgomery County taxpayers have spent hundreds of millions of dollars to develop, the county planning board has taken the first step toward declaring the Falkland Chase apartments a historic property that could not be demolished. The board’s final vote on the historic designation is set for next week.
What’s historic about the 479-unit complex at 16th Street and East West Highway? Well, Eleanor Roosevelt cut the ribbon when the buildings opened in 1937. And Falkland Chase was one of the first apartment projects backed by the Federal Housing Administration.
Wow. Impressive. Not the Falkland Chase history — but what a buncha sheep the planning board is.
richarda said,
June 5, 2008 @ 6:39 pm
I have baby pictures of myself taken when my family lived there in the early ’50s.