Kentlands, Gaithersburg, Maryland
Kentlands is a neighborhood of the U.S. city of Gaithersburg, Maryland.
Kentlands, Maryland | |
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Neighborhood of Gaithersburg | |
From left to right, clockwise from top to bottom: A Kentlands K-Mart store in March 2015, a Kentlands Giant grocery store in March 2015, residential street in 2006, Kentlands' main street in March 2008, town houses in March 2008, and Kentlands houses in March 2008. | |
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| Coordinates: 39°07′07″N 77°14′09″W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Maryland |
| County | Montgomery |
| City | Gaithersburg |
| Settled | 1723 |
| Founded | 1988 |
| Named for | Otis Beall Kent |
| Website | https://www.kentlands.com/home/ |
Kentlands was one of the first attempts to develop a community using Traditional Neighborhood Design planning techniques (also known as 'neo-traditional new town planning') that are now generally referred to under the rubric of the New Urbanism. (The New Urbanism is the concept of building a walkable, mixed-use city neighborhood or new town to provide an attractive alternative to the spread out, automobile-centric, subdivisions common to post-World War II American suburbia.) Kentlands is built around a farmstead previously owned by Otis Beall Kent.
The development, begun in 1988, contains buildings from the original Kentlands farm, many varieties of residences, a "downtown" commercial district, open space including protected natural areas and pocket parks, and civic uses including schools, a church, clubhouse, pool, tennis and basketball courts, catering facility, and an arts center.