Whitney Wisconsin Dog Video
By Anya F. Sostek
When they were growing up in Montgomery County in the 1960s and '70s, Dave Sislan and his accompany would consistently hitchhike to the Bethesda Theatre to watch a cine afore branch bottomward the artery to the Hot Shoppes for dinner.
In the '80s and '90s, Sislan additionally bent shows at the old cine house, bubbler beer and bistro nachos that were served to barter aback the amphitheater was accepted as the Cinema 'n Drafthouse, again the Bethesda Theatre Cafe.
7707 Wisconsin Ave.
Bethesda, Md. 20814
888-483-1958
• APPLICATION FEE: $25 per applicant
• SECURITY DEPOSIT: $250, refundable
• MONTHLY FEES : $10 per level; $25 for a fireplace; $15 to $45 for views; $25 to $75 for a balcony, sundeck or terrace.
• UTILITIES: Not included; anniversary accommodation has its own baptize boiler and gas meter.
• AMENITIES: In-unit washer/dryer, pond pool, fettle center, concierge, video rental, dry-cleaning, allowance wrapping, car detailing, 24-hour maintenance.
• PARKING: $125 per month, $150 for assigned spaces.
• PET POLICY: $250 refundable deposit; $25 pet hire per month, pets charge be beneath 35 pounds.
APARTMENT SIZEQUANTITYSQUARE FEETMONTHLY RENTALStudio18531 to 651$1,470 to $1,6201 BR/1BA14613 to 931$1,710 to $2,1901 BR/1 BA/Den25914 to 982$2,100 to $2,3702 BR/2 BA641,079 to 1,582$2,400 to $3,0402 BR/2 BA/Den131,284 to 1,736$2,625 to $3,8953 BR/2 BA101,471 to 1,886$3,795 to $4,1353-4 BR
Townhouse92,250 to 2,582$4,110 to $4,630
Although the amphitheater bankrupt in 2001, Sislan, 48, now allotment to the architecture every day -- as a resident. In July, he became the aboriginal addressee to move into the Whitney at Bethesda Theatre, the affluence accommodation circuitous that is about complete on top of the celebrated art deco theater. Although the circuitous won't be accomplished until January, best of the actual architecture is detail work.
The architecture complex, fabricated up of 244 apartments and nine townhouses, additionally includes a apology of the Bethesda Theatre that preserves the art deco attending from the theater's aperture in 1938. The breadth is actuality adapted for alive performances and will accessible abutting abatement for off-Broadway productions operated by Nederlander Worldwide. The Whitney, developed by the Bozzuto Group and Smith Payes, has been in the works aback 1996 and includes abstracted clandestine and accessible parking garages.
The Whitney contains three styles of accommodation buildings: an 11-story burghal belfry on Wisconsin Avenue, four-story villas in the centermost of the circuitous and townhouses that abruptness bottomward into a residential adjacency abaft the building. The buildings, added than 40 percent of which accept been leased, anatomy a courtyard with patios, landscaped breadth and a pond pool.
With 67 altered attic plans, best apartments in the architecture do not attending like their neighbors. A few apartments are decidedly noteworthy. One of the accommodation villas has an 800-square-foot balustrade patio, and two added apartments are double-levels, with windows aloof a few anxiety abroad from the theater's art deco marquee.
Sislan's apartment, like all others in the Whitney, has a full-size Maytag washer and dryer in the assemblage and maple cabinetry in the kitchen. Like abounding added apartments, his has floor-to-ceiling windows and a balcony. In July, Sislan confused into a one-bedroom on the fourth floor, because apartments on the aerial floors were still beneath construction. In November, he confused into a two-bedroom accommodation on the 10th attic that has two balconies and a fireplace. Some apartments in the architecture additionally accept upgraded kitchen features, such as granite countertops and stainless-steel appliances.
Such amenities do not appear cheap. The aboriginal flat in the architecture costs $1,470, and some three-bedroom apartments and townhouses amount added than $4,000 per month. In accession to the abject prices, association pay added account fees for assorted features. Anniversary akin aloft the added costs an added $10 per month, for example, and account fees alignment from $15 to $75 are additionally adjourned for fireplaces, balconies and views.
But for the association of the Whitney, those prices are aural acumen for the akin of account provided. "It's rather pricey, but the accommodation is account it," said Tori Hepburn, who accustomed a clear basin from Tiffany's as a allowance from the agents in August, aback she confused from Milwaukee. Aback she has had accompany in town, Hepburn, 29, has relied on admonition from the full-time babysitter on hip restaurants and confined nearby.
When Hepburn fell while active in the rain, the agents helped her get to a hospital and brought her flowers afterwards she came aback with crutches and a cast. As she recovered from her knee sprain, the agents delivered her mail to her fourth-floor accommodation about every day. "Coming from Wisconsin and not alive anyone, not accepting any ancestors here, they absolutely helped me feel adequate and acclimatize to the new area," she said.
Even admitting the architecture has been beneath architecture aback association confused in, tenants say that the agents has done an admirable job befitting babble down. The better beef from association seems to be that the basin wasn't accessible in time for use this summer.
Ryan Spiegel, 25, confused aback to the Washington breadth in August afterwards admission from Stanford Law School. He looked at 15 accommodation barrio in three canicule afore allotment the Whitney. Because he works 70 to 90 hours a anniversary as a first-year lawyer, Spiegel decidedly appreciates the adeptness of the agents to handle accommodation issues for him aback he's not home.
He drops his dry charwoman off at the advanced board aback he needs clothes laundered, and the agents allotment the clothes to his accommodation aback they're clean. They additionally handle deliveries of appliance and added packages. Spiegel hasn't had time to buy a car, but aback he does he can use the car account account accessible to residents. It additionally says it is one of two accommodation barrio in the country to action electric accelerated Internet service, acceptation that association can aloof bung their computers into the bank to get online, after annoying about cable or blast connections.
The centerpiece of the Whitney's antechamber is the Montgomery room, a accepted allowance for association and their guests busy in balmy shades of bronze. The allowance is decidedly accepted for the consistently replenished accumulation of amber dent cookies. The adjoining business centermost is acclimated as abundant for its three computers as for its coffee machine, which additionally makes cappuccino and espresso.
One morning, Spiegel mentioned to acreage administrator Kelly Jones that he consistently came abutting to spilling his coffee aback his carpool best him up, because the cups didn't accept lids. About immediately, Jones alleged him at assignment to let him apperceive that she had begin lids for the cups.
Sislan said that it is accessible to accommodated bodies in the building, because a aerial allotment of tenants booty advantage of the actuality that the architecture allows dogs (for a fee). "It's such an accessible way to alpha a conversation," he said. "Dog bodies are fundamentally friendly, and it makes a huge aberration for the faculty of the building."
The Whitney's area additionally makes activity easy. The architecture is on the aforementioned block as a CVS and beyond the artery from a Safeway. The Bethesda Metro base is a block away, and abounding of Bethesda's confined and restaurants are aural walking distance.
Next fall, aback the Bethesda Theatre's transformation into a live-performance breadth is complete, association will be able to absorb a night out after abrogation the building. "The amphitheater gives the architecture added appearance -- a faculty of actuality a battleground and a acidity of revivalism," said Spiegel. "It's activity to be one of the axial attractions of Bethesda."
