Global developer Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield is asking the Montgomery County Planning Board to approve a four-phase, multi-year project on about a third of Westfield Montgomery Mall’s fifty-nine-acre property at Democracy Boulevard, I-270, and the Capital Beltway. The redevelopment would bring hundreds of apartments, a fitness center, parking garage, and hotel rooms to the site.
Phase one includes demolishing the two-story Sears department store to make space for 213,018 square feet of ground-level retail and restaurant space with a five-story building with 369 residences (56 MPDUs).
The second phase includes a four-level, 150,000-square-foot fitness center and pool, plus 516-space parking garage.
Phase three will bring a seven-floor mixed-use building with 240 one- and two-bedroom residential units.
Finally, a twelve-story, 261-room hotel and residential building would be constructed in the fourth phase. Hotel rooms would be on the first seven floors, with 108 residential units on floors eight through twelve.