Newly-Unveiled Renderings Show What’s in Store for Apex Building Site

Images are of glass-wrapped apartment, office towers soaring hundreds of feet high

By Bethany Rodgers

New images show plans for apartment and office complex at Apex site in downtown Bethesda. Via Montgomery County Planning Department

New images are online showing a towering office and apartment complex on the downtown Bethesda site where the Apex building now stands.

The renderings of a developer’s vision for 7272 Wisconsin Ave. were presented Thursday during a meeting of the Montgomery County Planning Board. At the meeting, the board approved a preliminary plan for the developer, Carr Properties, to construct more than 937,000 square feet of mixed-use space. The building will also accommodate an underground light-rail station for the Purple Line and an entrance to the Bethesda Metro Station. The images depict an office tower and two residential towers with up to 480 homes rising from a shared “podium” that will contain parking, businesses and entrances to the building.

A planned plaza with landscaping and walkways also appears in one of the renderings.

The project’s sketch plan is set to come before the board for consideration Jan. 19.

Rendering of building proposed for construction at 7272 Wisconsin Ave. Credit: Montgomery County Planning Department

Picture shows plaza proposed to run along Wisconsin Avenue after the Apex building site is redeveloped. Credit: Montgomery County Planning Department