Italian Kitchen for sale in Silver Spring

Italian Kitchen is now being offered for sale in Silver Spring. The restaurant closed last August after a successful decade in business. Nearly a year later, a banner attached to the building is announcing the business - not the building - is now available for sale. Italian Kitchen is located at 8201 Fenton Street in downtown Silver Spring.

AutoZone nears opening at White Oak Shopping Center in Silver Spring

AutoZone is in the home stretch at 11259 New Hampshire Avenue at the White Oak Shopping Center in Silver Spring. Signage has been installed on the building, which was formerly home to Sears Auto Center. Inside, as you can see in the photos below, workers are now beginning to stock the shelves. The building is looking sharp amid the surrounding architectural gems such as the iconic-but-vacant Sears store, and the Enclave apartments.

Silver Spring neighbors complain of fried chicken aroma from Royal Farms

Could you ever get tired of the aroma of fresh Royal Farms fried chicken? Some neighbors of the new Royal Farms store at 9475 Georgia Avenue, in the Montgomery Hills area of Silver Spring, have. And the Maryland convenience store chain has heard them. The company has agreed to install a "Chicken Exhaust Scrubber," which it hopes will "resolve the aroma of fried chicken in the neighborhood." Royal Farms is directly adjacent to a residential neighborhood.

Photo courtesy Royal Farms

The Guardian apartments amped about Paris Baguette in Silver Spring

The Guardian apartments at 8605 Cameron Street in downtown Silver Spring have gotten a lot of attention for being a successful conversion of office space to residential, while many in the region are still just talking about it. Now another aspect of the project is turning heads, thanks to a massive banner high up on the building facade. It's promoting the imminent arrival of a Paris Baguette cafe and bakery in the ground floor of the building. 

Strong-arm robbery at restaurant in downtown Silver Spring

Montgomery County police responded to a report of a strong-arm robbery at a restaurant in downtown Silver Spring on Wednesday afternoon, July 22, 2026. The assault and robbery took place at a restaurant in the 800 block of Ellsworth Drive at 4:47 PM. According to police, the adult male suspect pushed the adult male victim to the floor inside the restaurant, and stole unspecified property from him. Police have not released a description of the suspect, and have not identified the specific restaurant where the incident took place.

Montgomery Hills Car Wash demolished, but hidden historic cemetery remains

The Montgomery Hills Car Wash at 9500 Georgia Avenue in Silver Spring has been demolished. But buried underneath the landmark business remains an earlier, lost landmark: Mount Zion Episcopal Cemetery. The property has been purchased by the Maryland State Highway Administration for use as a construction staging area for the War-on-cars Georgia Avenue Safety and Accessibility Project. It's certainly disrespectful, to use a burial ground as a staging area. But probably par for the course for today's SHA, which has become heavily politicized over the last decade, responding to the every need of our corrupt elected officials, engineering best practices and basic human decency be damned.

Man pistol-whipped, robbed in broad daylight in Silver Spring

Yet another violent crime was committed in broad daylight Saturday afternoon in Silver Spring, a disturbing 2026 trend in Montgomery County. The adult male victim in this case was walking in the 8700 block of Georgia Avenue at 2:59 PM, when he was approached from behind by the adult male suspect. After striking the victim in the head from behind with a handgun, the suspect took unspecified property from him, and fled the scene on foot. Police have not released a description of the suspect as of this writing.