Public Art in Silver Spring. Development does sometimes bring good things.

The transformation of Silver Spring into a real viable urban center brings the good with the bad. Mostly good in my opinion. Except for the extra traffic and loss of some low cost eateries, most people would agree with me that downtown Silver Spring in the last decade has become a very nice place to hang out. My wife and I bought our first home in the old North Woodside neighborhood in 1982. At that time-even though we were close to the downtown Silver Spring area we spent very little time there. What had been an energetic and viable downtown shopping area had mostly faded by then. The wonderful old Hecht Company department store closed up soon after we moved to Woodside and with the exception for J C Penny's and our favorite Thai eatery, we just went elsewhere when looking for fun. However in the past decade since the AFI Theater opened in the restored Silver Theater, I would say that 90% of our entertainment time is spent in the downtown area. With the revitalization has come some fine public art projects. I discovered this nice short documentary about the excellent public art in the downtown area and would like to share it with everyone.. This documentary was sponsored by docsinprogress which is a great site that helps both experienced and  promising documentarians (I made that up.) gain exposure.