r/Gaithersburg

MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Md - The Montgomery County Council’s Advisory Commission on Policing met on May 11th and exposed a sharp discrepancy between what State’s Attorney John McCarthy is saying about guns recovered by police and what Montgomery County Police Department’s own mandatory reporting shows.

Hey everyone,

This may be a long shot, but I figured I’d try.

Back around 2005, right after graduating college, I moved to the Montgomery Village/Gaithersburg area to begin my career. I lived at Hunt Club Apartments and became close friends with a guy named Jimmy who owned or operated a small deli nearby. I believe it may have been called Village Deli, Avenue Deli, or possibly Market Deli, but I honestly can’t remember exactly.

I spent a lot of evenings there back then. Jimmy and his crew treated me like family during a time when I was young, broke, starting life on my own, and trying to figure everything out. We’d hang out late into the night, laugh, eat, and just enjoy life. Some of my best memories from that chapter of my life came from that place.

I’ve often wondered what happened to the deli and whether Jimmy is still around. If anyone from the area remembers a deli fitting this description near Hunt Club Apartments or Montgomery Village Ave during the early-mid 2000s, I’d love to hear from you.

Funny how certain people and places stay with you decades later.

Thanks everyone.

Never been. Does anyone know? They say fresh meat but idk what that means. I don’t want to give up eating meat so I’m trying to find places that kill animals more ethically or get their meat from places that are ethical.

MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Md. — On Monday, amid growing environmental and affordability concerns, Montgomery County Councilmember Evan Glass introduced legislation to pause permits for data centers. The proposed legislation, if passed, would halt the issuance of any permits for data center construction for six months in Montgomery County.

MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Md. — County Executive Mark Elrich used his weekly address to launch a multi-front attack on the county council’s budget approach, warning that the council’s plan will leave homeowners paying more, create structural deficits for years to come, and saddle his successor with “an enormous problem.”

Hey everyone, I just accepted a job offer from NIST, and thus will be relocating to the area. Its just my wife and I. We are both in our early 30s and dont have any kids. We are currently looking at apartments to rent, but I just wanted to do some research about pros/cons of different neighborhoods and just more general information about the area. We plan to come down over Memorial Day weekend to see the area and look at apartments in person, so I’m just trying to gather information ahead of time. Thanks for any and all advice you may have for newcomers! Excited to be there soon!

So i am a caregiver for a special needs adult and we need to go to Gaithersburg, MD and need entertainment for a few hours priot to an event.

He loves movies, bowling(not very viable for 3 hours but hey. Worth a shot), and animals.

Any help greatly appreciated.

GAITHERSBURG, Md. — Gaithersburg committed to a $36.1 million renovation of 8 and 12 South Summit Avenue to replace its current City Hall — a cost that has grown 54 percent from the project’s $23.5 million authorization — and construction has not yet begun. The Mayor and City Council approved that figure unanimously on May 4, 2026.

That commitment came as the city was still closing out the financial fallout from its previous civic construction project: a decade-long, $28.4 million conversion of a commercial office building into a new police station that ended in a secret contractor settlement and hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees charged to city taxpayers.

GAITHERSBURG, Md. — A white ghost bike installed at the Gaithersburg intersection where 61-year-old Zhen Xiu Chen was struck and killed by a trash truck in 2022 has since been destroyed - crushed.

GAITHERSBURG, Md. — Montgomery County’s tourism marketing organization told Gaithersburg’s Mayor and City Council Monday that hotel tax collections in the city fell 8 percent through the first six months of fiscal year 2026, as federal workforce changes and spending cutbacks ripple through the regional lodging market — though the agency’s president said preliminary spring data may signal the worst has passed.

A review of campaign finance filings tied to Jud Ashman’s 2025 mayoral campaign and city planning records shows that several large donations from real estate developers and affiliated firms were made around key milestones in projects advancing through the City of Gaithersburg’s approval process. Ashman would eventually win reelection to the mayor’s office and then quickly announced his candidacy Montgomery County council district three, encompassing Gaithersburg, Rockville, and Washington Grove.

Records indicate that at least three developers or development-related firms contributed large donations, often the maximum allowable amount of $1,000, near significant dates tied to active projects before the city. In at least two instances, Ashman publicly praised the developments during council proceedings and expressed support for their approval near to when the contributions were made.

One notable example involved the Gateway Lakeforest residential project, which is being developed by a subsidiary of Guardian Realty Investors. On July 11^(th), 2024, the same day the project received final approval from the City of Gaithersburg, Ashman’s campaign received a $1,000 contribution from Guardian Realty Management, another subsidiary affiliated with Guardian Realty Investors.

Days earlier, during a July 7^(th) city council meeting in which the project was ultimately approved, Ashman voiced strong support for the proposal, stating, “If I had a vote on this, I would vote very happily in favor of this project.” Under Gaithersburg’s governmental model, the mayor typically does not vote on business before the council.

Another contribution was made in advance of hearings related to the Casey Rosedale Apartment project whose application lists Rodgers Consulting as the project’s civil engineer, landscape architect, and primary applicant. On Sept. 22th, 2025, Dusty Rood- President and CEO of Rodgers Consulting- contributed the maximum allowable $1,000 to Ashman’s mayoral campaign.

Less than a month later, on Oct. 20^(th), the city held a public hearing on the proposal, during which Ashman described it as “a dreamy proposal in many ways.” At a subsequent hearing on Jan. 5^(th), 2026, Ashman called the project “amazing” and added that he “would be very quick to vote for this project.”

Additional donations with closely aligned timing came from Soltesz Engineering during the lead-up to the 2025 Gaithersburg mayoral election. A donation of $1,000 was made in the company’s name to Ashman’s campaign on May 16^(th), 2025, four days after an initial application was submitted for the Rio Washingtonian Center residential development, in which Soltesz is listed as engineer of record.

Revised plans for the project were later submitted on Oct. 17^(th). One week later, on Oct. 24^(th), James and Jennifer Soltesz donated another $1000 to the Ashman campaign.

A broader review of campaign finance records shows that more than half of the funds raised during Ashman’s latest mayoral campaign came from organizations, executives, or entities tied to the real estate development industry.

Maximum donations of $1,000 were made by developer-affiliated political action committees, including the Apartment and Office Building Association and the Maryland Multi-Housing Association. Other maximum contributions came from development entities such as First Equity Holdings, LLC and Muddy Branch Investments, LLC, as well as executives connected to development firms, including David Flanagan of Elm Street Development and both Pete and Leigh Henry of HIP Projects.

Records indicate that at least 54 percent of the money raised during Ashman’s 2025 mayoral campaign originated from individuals, companies, or organizations connected to the real estate development industry. In total, more than 80% of Ashman’s funds came from outside the city of Gaithersburg.

I’ve been working at Dicks sport and goods for about 2 years now. I was able to see the construction turn my Dick’s store into a “House of sport” Giant. The process has been a nightmare for the past year. The new management under “House of sport” (Dicks larger, updated stores) came in fast and rude. The first major change was to fire or relocate every single manager or team lead that was working here previously. That nice team lead at front end, was relocated elsewhere or fired. Apparel leads and team sports leads who didn’t wanna leave where then demoted from leadership -> regular teammates. This major change caused a huge brain drain in the store because a lot of good people left, and were replaced with new inexperienced high school/early college individuals who just didn’t know the store that well. The store was poorly run, the new managers are rude and entitled, they will constantly ask you to do mundane repetitive task in order to look busy, such as reordering the hydration wall by color. The mangers are not helpful, they give you random hours like 30 hours one week, and then 4 the next week?? And if I were to ask about it they would say “AI Generated the schedule it’s out of my control”. And there nothing they can do. The worst thing of all is the main store managers, they will constantly power trip you, talk down to you. The store manager is a micromanager and is unnecessarily critical . No matter how well I preformed she was always on my case and everyone else. She was rude to me on several occasions for no reason, and for a part time job that pays minimum wage it really tested my patience. The management will encourage you sell dicks credit cards and insurance to EVERYONE.
Don’t buy these they are a scam, nobody shops at dicks enough to make that card worth it. No sweat instance is a scam too. When you need to activate ur insurance you need to call some operator and wait a long time for them to give u a number that validates ur insurance. Overall, I made the decision to quit dicks. I truly enjoyed working their before the big changes, but seeing all my colleagues be replaced with early college/high school kids, I can’t trust the mangers for problems or to change my schedule, and the harshness of the store managers. If I wanna go to Dicks I’m gonna drive 30mins-1 hour to a different dicks, DO NOT GO TO/Work for DICKS SPORT AND GOODS GAITHERSBURG.

They all seemed in excellent condition so I’m curious what the plan is and where city plans like are documented?