Kentlands – Your One Stop Shopping and Entertainment Destination

April 14, 2010 at 5:03 pm

A mile away from our Potomac Grove neighborhood up Quince Orchard Road is an area called the Kentlands, which includes every kind of shop and entertainment, from supermarkets to hair salons to spa services, a fitness center, movie theatre, restaurants – some chains, some new and eclectic ventures.  You can also find medical supplies, furniture, clothing, party supplies and repair shops.  We also love that Whole Foods supermarket is there, right next to Michael’s.  Virtually all your errands can be accomplished within one mile of your home!

Another thing we love about the Kentlands is the farmer’s market with fresh locally grown produce.  In the spring and summer they close off some of the streets every Sunday for a few hours.

There is a city bus stop right by the Quince Orchard library that goes to/from the Kentlands, so teenagers have easy access to entertainment and jobs.

Every weekend in the summer a band plays during the evening, and families sit outside on the square eating dinner, having ice cream, biking, roller blading and dancing.  It is a really popular weekend activity that is a great way to meet your neighbors.

Kentlands is a wonderful destination, whether it’s ice cream with the kids, date night with the spouse, or girls lunch out.  You can find out more on the Kentlands website.

About the Author:  Lauren is a North Potomac MD home owner since 2005.

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  1. 4 beds, 3 full baths
    Lot size: 12,970 sqft
  2. 4 beds, 1 full, 1 part baths
    Lot size: 1.04 ac
  3. 4 beds, 2 full, 2 part baths
    Home size: 1,540 sq ft
    Lot size: 2,250 sqft
  4. 4 beds, 4 full, 1 part baths
    Lot size: 2.85 ac
  5. 3 beds, 3 full baths
    Lot size: 1,960 sqft
  6. 4 beds, 3 full, 1 part baths
    Home size: 4,150 sq ft
    Lot size: 20,025 sqft
  7. 4 beds, 5 full, 2 part baths
    Home size: 6,124 sq ft
    Lot size: 3.12 ac
  8. 2 beds, 1 full bath
    Home size: 1,163 sq ft
  9. 3 beds, 2 full, 1 part baths
    Home size: 2,584 sq ft
    Lot size: 2,500 sqft
  10. 3 beds, 3 full, 1 part baths
    Home size: 1,980 sq ft
    Lot size: 1,242 sqft

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Potomac Grove, North Potomac MD

April 14, 2010 at 4:55 pm

We live in North Potomac – zip code 20878, in a friendly neighborhood called Potomac Grove filled with families who care about their area.

On a warm, sunny day, people are out tending their gardens and front yards, walking their dogs.  Everyone stops to say hello and the biggest complaint is that all the friendly conversations make the lawn work take longer!

We really love how our kids can walk to Quince Orchard High School and library, which are only a half mile away.  We often walk or ride our bikes to a very close and beautiful park called “Quince Knolls,” which has large fields for flag football, soccer and baseball.  It also has tennis and basketball courts and a toddler jungle gym.  It is full of large shady trees and tucked away in a quiet neighborhood.

There is a “Women’s Club” in this area that is really nice.  It’s called the Potomac Chase Women’s Club (PCWC).  For $25 per year, you can join and they have monthly social events.  It has over 100 members with women of all ages and with kids of all ages.  It’s a great way to meet other women in the area.  It is also fun because any time someone needs a referral for a repair, a doctor, anything at all, they send out an email to the entire yahoo group.  I have found so many good sources through this network.  I have never lived somewhere where they had this wonderful network – it’s a really involved area.

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When the weather is nice, so many people take walks around the area.  It feels so alive and cozy.  And people in this area work hard to maintain their homes.  You rarely find overgrown, unkempt yards.  Our homeowner’s association is always on top of maintenance, we are among the first neighborhoods to get plowed and the garbage trucks are very reliable.

People care about knowing one another and helping out with the kids.  My neighbors are so generous – they never say “no” to buying popcorn from my boy scout son or cookies from the neighborhood girl scouts.

We really love the comfortable feeling of our neighborhood, and being a short drive to all the services we need.

About the Author:  Lauren has been a Potomac Grove home owner since the year 2000.

The Myers Team has helped families move to North Potomac for 24 years, let us help you find the perfect neighborhood.  Use the form on the right to order a relocation package today, email us at bob@montgomerymdliving.com or call us at 301-910-9910 to discuss your needs.

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  1. 3 beds, 1 full, 1 part baths
    Home size: 1,237 sq ft
  2. 2 beds, 1 full, 1 part baths
    Home size: 1,134 sq ft

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Germantown’s Milestone Neighborhood

March 11, 2010 at 1:12 pm

When we bought our first home and made a move to Germantown in 1995, it was in the Cloverleaf Center by the driving range. I used to leave it and drive through the Milestone community that was being built and sigh about how I really wished I could live in this idyllic neighborhood. With its neat lots and perfect location – it was a dream…..until 2002. At that point, after almost two years in Pennsylvania, we moved into one of the mid-size single family houses far enough off the main road that there was plenty of privacy, but not so far off that I couldn’t walk to Target across the street if I wanted to.

What attracted me to the subdivision was much more than the nice houses and Target – although Target always plays a large part in my home-buying decisions. In fact, what attracted me was a feeling of community without the feeling that people are looking in your windows watching you eat dinner. There are three pools in this community – one for the single-family houses, one for the apartments and condos, and one for the townhouses across Observation Road. The pools are clean, the lifeguards are responsible and they are great places for meeting your friends after work and waiting for dinner to be delivered. One thing we’d been awaiting for years in Milestone was the opening of the William B. Gibbs, Jr. Elementary School which premiered in August of 2009. It’s a green school and most of the kids are walkers, so every morning we see all of the kids’ friends walking to school, talking, socializing and painting a great picture of suburbia in this neighborhood.

Of course, what’s a neighborhood without good quality neighbors? I can’t complain. We’ve never had a snow storm where we didn’t find people from various houses on our block helping us clear the snow. Every fall we look forward to our next door neighbor bringing over her home-grown persimmons that she’s picked herself. And every spring, we look forward to watching the new growth of life on our plants, blooms on our trees and seeing how all of the kids have sprouted over the cold winter. Milestone is as close as you can get to a Norman Rockwell painting in Germantown, MD.

About the Author: T. Diamond has lived in Montgomery County, MD since 1995.

The Myers Team has been helping people  move to Germantown since 1986.  Visit our other site for information about the Germantown Md real estate market.  Call Bob Myers at 301-910-9910 for more information about great neighborhoods in Germantown.

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  1. 4 beds, 3 full, 1 part baths
    Home size: 2,426 sq ft
    Lot size: 6,169 sqft
  2. 3 beds, 2 full, 1 part baths
    Lot size: 8,703 sqft
  3. 4 beds, 3 full, 1 part baths
    Home size: 2,674 sq ft
    Lot size: 6,279 sqft
  4. 5 beds, 2 full, 1 part baths
    Lot size: 8,485 sqft
  5. 4 beds, 2 full, 1 part baths
    Home size: 2,468 sq ft
    Lot size: 7,246 sqft
  6. 5 beds, 3 full, 1 part baths
    Lot size: 7,373 sqft
  7. 2 beds, 2 full baths
    Home size: 1,370 sq ft
  8. 4 beds, 2 full, 1 part baths
    Lot size: 6,270 sqft
  9. 4 beds, 3 full, 1 part baths
    Home size: 3,066 sq ft
    Lot size: 8,513 sqft
  10. 4 beds, 3 full, 1 part baths
    Lot size: 14.00 ac

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Germantown – Convenient Shopping at Milestone’s Neelsville Village

March 11, 2010 at 1:12 pm

As a product of suburbia, one of my criteria for purchasing a home has always been close proximity to convenient shopping.  Moving to Montgomery County and living in the Milestone community in Germantown has been amazing in that respect due to having the wonderful Neelsville Shopping Center just across the street.  Neelsville is hailed as one of the country’s largest outdoor plazas.  It has 10 separate buildings which house restaurants, grocery stores, electronics stores, mass retail stores, and various specialty stores.  There is almost nothing we need that we can’t get from Neelsville in Germantown.

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Neelsville Village Center at Milestone in Germantown

Years ago, there was an unprecedented snow storm which left roads unplowed for six days.  The snow hit us unexpectedly and hit us hard and fast.  How wonderful that my husband could walk across the street to purchase some extra shovels and salt so we could clear our driveway?!  Not to mention the milk and cereal and various other home needs to tide us over until the plows came through.  Just try to find me a 40 acre plot in Kansas where you can do that!

Of course, variety is the spice of any community shopping mecca and Neelsville has tons of variety.  I’ve definitely been known to start in the section that Target anchors for groceries (did I mention our Target is being remodeled into a Super Target with groceries this year?) and household goods, mosey into TJ Maxx for a gift, stop at Staples for ink cartridges, haunt the Halloween seasonal store for a couple plastic shrunken heads and then pop over to Michael’s for decorative baskets — and then haul it all back to my car at Target.  Who knew that shopping at Milestone’s Neelsville could double as a weight-lifting work-out?

There are so many different businesses (which have stayed consistent for many years, by the way) that I couldn’t possibly name them all in this blog. But I will mention that there’s a huge advantage to living in the Milestone community where you can leave your house when a commercial break starts, run to pick up and pay for your curbside dining, and be back in your favorite easy chair before the next segment of the show begins.  Now that’s service!

About the Author: T. Diamond has lived in Montgomery County, MD since 1995.
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Where in the World is Gaithersburg?

January 29, 2010 at 3:34 pm

When I first made the move to Gaithersburg in Montgomery County MD in 1991, my colleagues in my DC workplace were aghast – where is Gaithersburg and why do you want to move so far out?!  How times have changed!

Wherefore Art Thou Gaithersburg?

Looking back, it seems hard to believe that Kentlands was just being built and the two things Gaithersburg was known for were Lakeforest Mall and the National Institute for Standards and Technology (then known as National Bureau of Standards).

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The growth of Gaithersburg since then was fueled by an incredible demand for housing, its great location to Interstate 270, (the main commuting route into DC) and the affordability of housing.

Kentlands –A New Idea

A prime example of Gaithersburg’s growth is the neo-Traditionalist Kentlands, a planned walkable community of retail, professional offices and housing, and the more residential Lakelands that has extended out from it.  These popular Gaithersburg neighborhoods have good schools, walking trails with water features, great restaurants and upscale housing prices to match.

The communities surrounding Kentlands have some older homes and are more affordable such as Quince Orchard Manor or the newer Quince Orchard Park – where you can take advantage of the Kentlands amenities without paying the higher premium.

Gaithersburg Amenities – Too Many to List

The home we bought as newlyweds was in a small townhome community known as Woodland Hills, right outside of Montgomery Village in zip code 20879.  It was a relatively short commute to DC, either by driving down 270, or parking at Shady Grove Metro to catch the subway.  We lived there for over ten years and loved it.  We wouldn’t have moved but for having children and needing a bigger home.   Our kids loved the tot lot and tennis courts at Woodland Hills.

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Gaithersburg's Woodland Hills Tot Lot and Tennis Courts

This neighborhood was within walking distance of the Gaithersburg Library and the ever popular Costco.  We went regularly to the summer concerts for kids at the City Hall Park Pavilion and played in the playground there.  Olde Towne Gaithersburg offers a Labor Day Parade with marching bands and floats and the Olde Towne Street Festival, great for young and old alike.  There are a multitude of parks with loads of activities.  For example Seneca Creek State Park offers fishing and recreation in the summer and the Winter Lights display in December.

Ann Head Shot 191x300 Where in the World is Gaithersburg?The Author:  Ann Myers has lived in the Washington DC area since 1977, residing in Georgetown, Glover Park, Dupont Circle, Northern Virginia, Rockville, Gaithersburg, Boyds and Clarksburg.

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