This charming and updated home is located in Forest Estates, a leafy, well-established neighborhood containing a mixture of diverse pre-war and post-World War II homes bordered by Forest Glen Road to the south, Georgia Avenue to the west, Imperial Drive to the north, and Sligo Creek Park to the east. It contains well-maintained homes in a middle to middle-upper class context, with a demographic that is increasingly young and wealthy. It contains a few newly-built, large upscale homes while many older homes have been renovated and substantially enlarged. The neighborhood is located adjacent to the renowned Holy Cross Hospital, Sligo Creek Park, hiker-biker trails, and numerous playgrounds: Getty Park, with playgrounds, fields, and tennis courts, and a park at the end of Sanford Road, with a blacktop, basketball nets, playgrounds, and fields abutting Sligo Creek. There is also a neighborhood daycare center--the Kensington Forest Glen Montgomery Child Care Center--a neighborhood farmer's market during summer months, the Saint John's Church, and 2 medical centers containing pediatricians, MDs, dentists, and orthodontists, among others. Importantly, this neighborhood is directly adjacent to the Forest Glen Metro Station on the Red Line of the Washington Metro, is within blocks of the Georgia Avenue exit of the Capital Beltway, and adjacent to many MetroBus and Ride-On bus routes, one of which runs through the neighborhood providing direct access to the Metro Station for the elderly and disabled. Downtown Silver Spring, with its countless food and entertainment options is only a 5-minute drive to the south, downtown Wheaton with the Westfield Wheaton Shopping mall is a 5 minute drive to the north, and downtown Bethesda is a 10 minute drive to the west of the neighborhood. Additionally, the Washington, DC border is a 5-minute drive away, while downtown Washington is either a 15-minute Metro ride, or 20 minute drive from the neighborhood.
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