Plans filed to redevelop garden apartment complex in downtown Bethesda with new tower

The longtime owner of a 1960s-era garden apartment complex in downtown Bethesda has proposed to redevelop it as a new, much denser apartment tower, adding to a growing trend of similar residential projects in the area. A partnership of the Kossow and Gelman families — of Kossow Management Corp. and The Gelman Cos., both real estate firms — has owned the 84-unit, roughly 72,000-square-foot Battery Lane Apartments at 4861 Battery Lane since 1984.