Who owns Silver Spring?
To kick off this new Silver Spring blog, I thought that recent tension over public property in Silver Spring would be fitting.
By now, most Silver Spring residents are surely aware of the controversy that was raised when amateur photographer Chip Py was stopped from taking photographs on Ellsworth Drive. This drew further attention to the fact that the once public thoroughfare is now essentially private, as is all of the "public" space around it (fountain, stairs, tables, etc.). PFA Silver Spring LLC, the company that owns this town center relented regarding photography, but the question is now public: Who owns Silver Spring?
What do you think?
—ed.
The July 2007 Voice is running an article on this topic (Click here to read: www.silverspringvoice.com/archives/copy/2007/07/Who_owns_SS.html).
Further food for thought—this video shot by Silver Spring resident Richard Jaeggi at a July 4 protest: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyJUuUX-De0