White Oak Science Gateway
WOSG Projects
Adventist HealthCare White Oak Medical Center
Project: State of the Art medical facility with 198 private patient rooms and over 1,000 parking spaces.
Expanding to 230 private rooms. Status: Completed August 2019.
Hilton Home2 Suites Hotel
Project: 100 rooms
Status: Opened 2019
White Oak Town Center
Project: 103,000 SF Mixed-Used development including 41,000 SF anchor grocery store.
Status: Substantially Completed. Opening summer 2024.
Viva White Oak
Project: New Bioscience-focused 280-acre mixed-use community, approved for 12 million square feet.
Status: Detailed Site Plan and Engineering. Construction will begin First Semester of 2025.
Hillandale Gateway
Project: Mixed-Use with 463 Residential Units (155 Age Restricted Homes) and Commercial Development.
Status: Under Construction – Grading and Utilities substantially complete.
White Oak Apartment
Project: 387 Residental Units
Status: Under Construction, initial deliveries summer 2024, final deliveries first semester of 2025.
Montgomery College East County Education Center
Project: 55,000 Square-Foot East County Education Center with both, Credit and Non-Credit courses
Status: Opened April 1, 2024.
Adventist Healthcare White Oak Medical Center Building 3
Project: New 61,750 SF, three-story Medical Office Building, and Outpatient Surgical Center.
Status: Planning and Design.
White Oak Self-Storage
Project: 3,800 SF upper floor addition and new 116,000 SF rear self-storage building.
Status: Sketch Plan and Site Plan.
Amalgamated Transit Union
Project: Town Center with 1.3 million square feet of mixed-use (900 residential units, new shopping
and restaurant offerings). Status: Feasibility & Due Diligence.
White Oak Science Gateway Master Plan - Building a World Class Bio and Life Science Community
The White Oak Science Gateway (WOSG) Master Plan seeks to leverage the many assets located in the White Oak area, especially the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Headquarters , and establish the foundation upon which the area will evolve into a community that offers more opportunities to learn, live, work and play. The Plan also envisions that the commercial centers will evolve from conventional, auto-dependent suburban shopping retail centers, business parks and light industrial areas into vibrant, mixed-use, transit-served nodes that will enhance the entire areas's quality of life, appearance, walkability, and sense of place. To that end, the County invested in the construction of the first Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system in Maryland, called FLASH. Services began in October 2020.
To promote the WOSG, the County purchased in 2009 a 115-acre former compositing facility known as Site 2 from WSSC for the express purpose of creating a “World Class Bio/Life Sciences, Education and Research Community,” and in 2011 the County chose Percontee, Inc., who already owned an adjacent 165 acres, as its development partner in a public-private partnership. This partnership, to redevelop nearly 280 acres of industrial uses into a mixed-use center with a focus on bio/life sciences, will take place over the next 10 to 15 years. While the 280-acre project known as Viva White Oak is poised to transform the WOSG, new development and redevelopment in the area is not limited to this project (see below for additional development).
VIVA White Oak
VIVA White Oak is a Public-Private-Partnership to develop a 280 acre master planned community. Land uses will include a town center, a world class bio/life science center, retail, medical offices, townhome and multifamily residential, education and public open spaces. MCB Real Estate has completed their due diligence to purchase the project. Planning and Engineering are underway to refine the masterplan. Construction will commence in 2025.
