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Silver Spring: The Making of a ghost town…

Okay, I would like to start by saying that Silver Spring, MD cannot be exactly labeled as a ghost town, yet. One main criterion that makes a ghost town is when the economic activity that has supported it has failed or has slowly or abruptly ceased to exist for any reason. At first glance I…
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About Us!

Silver Spring for Start-Ups is a conglomerate of small start-ups and individuals in and around the Silver Spring community that would like to encourage our county to promote and cultivate the development of start-ups in our region.  One of our goals is to work with our county and state to attract small companies particularly minority…
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Discovery Building gets discovered!

Great news! Children’s National Health Systems has agreed to a 15-year lease at the old Discovery Building and we think its great news for the local restaurants that were a bit worried after the departure of the Discovery Channel. At this time, we don’t know how many jobs that this will translate into but at…
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Silver Spring Entrepreneur Envisions a Technology Start-up Utopia right here!

A 2018 article from aitp.org entitled “Tech Town USA: 20 cities IT Pros will want to call Home” sited that several cities throughout the US that have put a great amount of their resources into fostering a strong tech community. One of two on this list stood out the most, #11 DC-Arlington and Alexandria, #16…
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