Deal between Montgomery County, nonprofit aims for new affordable housing and arts center in downtown Wheaton

A nonprofit developer will soon file early-stage plans for a sizable new Metro-accessible affordable housing project in downtown Wheaton, involving a land swap with the county government and co-location of a new county arts and cultural facility. Montgomery Housing Partnership Inc., a nonprofit developer and service provider, owns the 1960s-era Amherst Square garden apartments, just east of and adjacent to a vacant publicly owned lot, which property records show the county government acquired from the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority in 2020.