Comments on East Montgomery's science hub far from becoming reality - Greater Greater Washington

Comment by Cyrus

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 19:51:17 EDT

The ICC is projected to create over 10,000 jobs directly and support 150,000 others indirectly. Science City II is a perfect example of the synergies building in Montgomery County's Biotech Triangle. The two science clusters interconnected by the ICC will position Montgomery County as a science powerhouse and creation of a sustainable economy not based on defense and intelligence contractors with the coming drastic federal budget cuts that will hit the area, particularly NoVa, very hard.

Comment by Payton

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 12:59:10 EDT

@charlie: probably to be close enough to poach talent.

Comment by ccort

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 12:41:55 EDT

Thanks for covering this issue. We've got to shift jobs to the east side of MoCo and to PGC.

Comment by charlie

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 11:15:11 EDT

exactly why would a "life science" firm want to be close to the FDA?

Back in the day, that worked for lawyers and filings -- easier to messenger it over at 4:50 PM to make a deadline. But I dont' think the FDA quite works like that, and email has replaced that business.

Comment by jag

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 10:21:51 EDT

I, too, am concerned about the lack of fixed-rail transit. This seems like such a logical plan for one of the bazillion underutilized PG metro stations. If only PG spent its time creating ideas like this instead of crap like National Harbor...oh well.

Comment by Redline SOS

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 10:08:43 EDT

As someone who's lived in Silver Spring and Briggs Chaney areas...this isn't going to work with BRT. This needs light rail at the very least, heavy rail would be preferable.