UPDATE The Montgomery County Maryland Planning Board approved the development plan for the former WMAL(AM) tower site earlier this month. For now, the station’s four-400 foot tower array still stands, as it has for seven decades.
Former retired chief engineer David Sproul tells Inside Towers station owner Cumulus Media plans to apply for a demolition permit soon.
The company would like demo to happen this spring.
Cumulus Media sold the 75-acre parcel to Toll Brothers, which intends to build 309 houses on the 75-acre site that’s near the Capital Beltway. The two-year-old plans faced opposition from neighbors who argued the project will bring more traffic to the area and require too many trees to be cut. The Planning Board previously approved the project, but a drawn-out review process landed the project back before the board late last year, reported Bethesda Magazine.
January 30, 2019
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