Am I the only one who has no clue what Towson Square is?

No, you're not the only one.

Truthfully, I'm not that eager to find out.

Where is this going to be built? And you have a typo in the first paragraph with the word Towson.

Chain marketed italian, mexican and chicken.

Stay classy Towson.

It's the area where the Burger King used to be, near the Towson "circle"

"high-end international" ... you know, like Olive Garden ! LOL

Maybe "Lake Trout 2" should open up there. See http://towson.patch.com/listings/lake-trout-2

I want to know how all those pedestrians are going to cross Joppa Road to get to the mall????A pedestrian bridge is needed. The traffic light at Delaware is already bogged down with cars unless you anticipate everyone coming by bus lines.

"We're going to make Towson a regional destination." Which means more congestion and competition for parking, which means this local now has another reason to avoid downtown Towson.

Oh goody, let's increase traffic around the Towson circle! I'll get to honk my horn and raise my blood pressure even more when people insist on entering the circle from Joppa Road in the right lane which is supposed to be a right turn only onto Dulaney Valley. Instead they insist on trying to fit their car beside my car as we round the circle. I would love for a traffic cop to take notice of all these illegal enterings into that circle in the mornings. They could surely raise more money by doing that alone to decrease the deficit!

never heard of it

It just boggles the mind. How do these developers think that this is going to end up any different than Towson Commons, just two blocks away? Is this just a big tax write off? This is just a continuation of Baltimore County's policy of unrestricted growth at any cost, no matter what traffic congestion or other toll on the citizenry.

Towson? A Regional Destination? You have got to be kidding. It is the polar opposite of that. A movie theater and italian, south african and mexican restaurants. Of course, Cordish and Heritage are the developers. Kamentz and his developer buddies.

It is now crystal clear why Councilwoman Cathy Bevins "screwed" the citizens of Carney who live on East Avenue rezoning the half acre of green space between the long time residents of East Avenue and the Heritage conglomerate auto dealerships. Got to give developers whatever they want.

Maybe the first step would be to have Baltimore County Government be more welcoming. Baltimore County needs to move away from its less than diverse leadership. Never a minority or a woman as County Executive let alone a County Council truly representative of its ethnicity.

Has anyone ever heard of these restaurants?

For those that never heard of it, it was originally known as the Towson Circle III project.

It seems bizarre that a County Executive would hold a press conference to announce something so unimportant as three chain restaurants opening. I disagree that mediocre chain restaurants present a "great option for locals." (I did have the experience of going to an On the Border about fifteen years ago and would not go back). I will, of course, stick with the local restaurants.

This looks like another hunting ground for the gangs that currently roam Towson Town Center. I hope that security is up to the challenge.

LOL "The Gangs of Towsontowne Center"

Ooga! Booga!

I already avoid towson like the plague...as i also do white marsh. Now i will totally erase towson from my memory bank...as i did white marsh lol

Let's get some other awesome big-chain "high end" fast-food joints in there... like a Cold Stone Creamery, or a TGIFridays or Stony River or P.F. Chang's or maybe a Harry and David's and a GameStop, Eddie Bauer, or Bath & Body Works !

It'll be awesome.

I understand Marks and Kamenetz have identified Olympian Park as surplus county land and will now be selling it to Walmart for use as a super store. Once that goes through they can kill off all the rest of the locally owned shops and complete the conversion to White Marsh Central.

I'm really looking forward to this development! I'll be able to ride my bike or walk here.

JD Stuts never offers any positive comments and is a perfect example of why so many people stay away from these boards. David Marks isan outstanding Councilman.

I think the bar in the theatre sounds awesome. That's about it.

Our Towson neighborhood opposed the development of Towson Square because of traffic congestion, inadaquate police assigned to this area and redundancy of a failed idea(Towson Commons) but our County Executive must know better than many long-time homeowners in Towson.

I just wish they would spruce up storefronts along the block of York Road where the Rechter Theatre is. It looks like skid row with the rotting wood, trash and cigarette butts on the sidewalk.

I guess I'm the only one that likes Nado's Peri-Peri? I have been to the one in Annapolis on many occasions, and find the quality of food and spiciness levels to be above average. I in Parkville, and regularly go to Towson for Pho, but will now also go for Peri-Peri.

As far as the circle goes - no one, anywhere, knows how to drive in a circle. Grew up in Annapolis, and State Circle and Church Circle were always great places to get some "natural wear and tear" on your car's bumpers and side panels.

if you want to make towson a regional destination why not give it a chance to offer something different rather than the same tired ol' chain restaurants that all have the same menus just with different ethnic themed titles and wall decorations.

Towson Square? I call it the Towson Alleyway! Too try and shove that much building on such a tiny parcel seems like a recipe for disaster. It isn't particularly accessible by foot unless they plan on doing a pedestrian bridge over Joppa Road, linking it to the mall parking areas. We know from the experience with Towson Commons, that people do not really like parking garages (although a mall parking garage may be the exception).
I'd be very interested in seeing the Patch detail the proposed ingress and egress of Towson Square and what the traffic count projections are for the site. It wasn't until the circle was built, that the Dulaney Valley, Joppa intersection was lifted out of failing..and even now traffic isn't a picnic near there.
Oh, and Mr. Kamenetz, if you would like to be like Bethesda, you are going to have to pour significant money into infrastructure improvements and figure out a way to lure independent, innovative eateries to Towson. Chain eateries are not the draw in Bethesda, the one-of-a-kind, (particularly ethnic) restaurants are!

Thank you Councilman Marks, for your efforts and commitment to Towson.

you guys need to all stop whining.. its going to make towson a better place.. if you dont like the circle take alternate routes around it. It will make towson more upscale and anything will be better than what is there now, ugly, vacant parking lots. Towson commons didnt work because there was absolutely no parking at all. Uno pizzaria ruby tuesdays, borders and the AMC movie theater were all shoved up in side that building and hard to get too. The parking garage was not easily marked and it was a mess.. This project will be a GREAT addition to Towson.

Respectfully, I wouldn't call "On The Border" an upscale addition - have you ever been to one?

Cinemark is a theater chain from Texas, Nandos is an international chain, La Tagliatella is really AmRest (KFC mogul from Poland) and On the Border is mid-line and owned/operated by a private equity firm (Golden Gate Capital)... I would rather see the local businesses supported (or at least US businesses) than to see them displaced by fast food chain restaurants and (yet another) theater and garage complex. Only time will tell if the third iteration of the Towson Commons is a benefit or a another bane.

(By the way, the old Commons was literally attached to the parking garage, you don't get much closer than that, and it's the same deal with this new mall. Now we'll have three empty parking garages in the center of Towson, but at least Cordish/Heritage will make a buck)