Following a public vote, Montgomery Parks has announced that Bottleworks Lane Urban Park will be the name of its newest park in downtown Silver Spring.
More than 500 people participated in the naming contest, with Bottleworks Lane Urban Park receiving 71 percent of the votes.
Other proposed park names included South Silver Spring Urban Park, which was the park’s original name before the naming contest was launched, and Kennett Street Urban Park.
Regrettably, Parky McParkface was not included among the proposed names for the park.
“Bottleworks Lane Urban Park references the park’s industrial roots while honoring the former Coca-Cola Bottling Works plant on the site and the nearby former Canada Dry Bottling Works plant,” said Henry Coppola, Montgomery Parks planning supervisor for the Park Planning and Stewardship Division.
Located across from the also-incoming Dacha Beer Garden at 1110 East-West Highway, the one-acre, newly named Bottleworks Lane Urban Park will serve as an active, urban, recreational space featuring a promenade, a playground, a fitness area, a multi-sport court, a dog run, and a picnic area, among other amenities.
The site is the former home of a National Tire and Battery auto center, which the Maryland-National Capital Parks and Planning Commission purchased in 2021 after the Montgomery County Council approved the acquisition for $7.5 million.
The park’s concept is based on recommendations from the Silver Spring and Adjacent Communities Plan and public feedback collected during an open house and an online survey conducted in 2022.
Initial construction began in the fall of 2023, during which Montgomery Parks demolished the vacant National Tire and Battery building and remediated contaminated soil from the site’s previous use.
Montgomery Parks would like to acquire the neighboring property currently occupied by the Iglesia De Dios Pentecostal church to double the size of the new urban park. However, the current owners are unwilling to sell.
“Now that the soil is clean, the upcoming park is expected to feature native trees and pollinator-friendly plants to enhance the urban ecosystem,” Montgomery Parks planner Ching-Fang Chen said in March.
Bottleworks Lane Urban Park is slated to open in the spring of 2026.