Posts Tagged as ‘Montgomery County’

July 27, 2009

Coming Soon: A redesigned White Flint neighborhood in Montgomery County

Residents, businesses and local leaders have been presented with an unprecedented opportunity to create a new neighborhood for White Flint– transforming the current hodge-podge of traffic, parking lots and urban sprawl – into a new “Smart Growth” hometown that is less dependent on automobiles and more oriented towards walking, biking and mass transit.
The new White [...]

June 4, 2009

Montgomery County MD Named one of 10 Best Places to Retire

With the economy in turmoil and lifestyle preferences changing, traditional retirement counties aren’t looking as attractive as they used to. With this in mind, Forbes magazine set out to identify the Best Places to Grow Old.
The magazine mined data from the U.S. Census Bureau to determine where people older than 65 live now. It examined [...]

May 13, 2009

Five Cities in Montgomery County Rank Among “America’s Top 25 Towns to Live Well”

Forbes Magazine evaluated towns on quality of life, business environment and labor force
#8 – Rockville, MD
Population: 54,274
Location: Another northeast Washington, D.C., suburb, Rockville is 25 miles from Capitol Hill.
Median income: $88,759
Strongest categories: Its per capita venture capital investment of $3,130 is the highest of any town outside California, which isn’t surprising when you consider [...]