The best New Urbanist center, in my opinion, is the brand new Rockville Town Center. Very mature. Very credible as urbanism.
– Andres Duany

High praise indeed from the world’s most respected New Urbanist. BeyondDC agrees: Rockville Town Square is magnificent; the best “new downtown” to come along yet. The urbanism is convincing and the architecture diverse, but thematic. It could be a bit of central London, picked up and planted amidst Montgomery County. Combined with the coming redevelopment of the Regal Theater parking lot, downtown Rockville is looking really, really good.

See BeyondDC’s small photo set of the new development, but please note that our pictures were taken last winter, while construction was still underway.

Update: Aug 2, 2007: Right on schedule, the Post today features a story about the redevelopment on the Regal parking lot block.