Articles by: Eric Drenner

This winter, our crews are busy putting some finishing touches on the development at Crown Farm in Gaithersburg, Maryland. Crown Farm is a new, 182-acre, multi-use, urban-inspired neighborhood located on about 88 acres of land between Sam Eig Highway and the future Decoverly Drive extension. The community will include four distinct […]

Davidsonville, MD December 16, 2013 – Davidsonville, Maryland‐based commercial landscaper E‐Landscape Specialty Solutions announced that it has been selected to install hardscaping for Crown Farm, a new, 182‐acre, multi‐use, urban‐inspired neighborhood located on about 88 acres of land between Sam Eig Highway and the future Decoverly Drive extension in Gaithersburg, Maryland. The community will include four distinct neighborhoods, six parks, shopping, restaurants, a grocery store, fitness club, swimming pool and clubhouse. “Crown Farm is a significant new development for the City of Gaithersburg and we are excited to be a part of this important project,” commented E‐Landscape President Eric Drenner. “The concrete and pavers we are installing are part of the finishing touches that will make a grand opening this spring possible, and I’m looking forward to seeing the ribbon cut and this project come to life.” The historic England‐Crown farmhouse (the original property on the grounds) is being preserved and will be sold as a private residence. The farm’s historic silos and corn crib will be preserved as features of City Park. Currently, construction is underway in Downtown Crown and Crown West. Crown East and Crown Central will be built in future phases. When the project is completed, a large village green will host community events from musical performances to farmers markets. Crown is expected to celebrate its grand opening in the spring of 2014. Sunbrook Partners Inc., the master developer of Crown Farm, is working with JBG Rosenfeld Retail and Bozzuto to bring the project to life. E‐Landscape’s scope of work includes the installation of site concrete, concrete retaining walls, and pavers. The grand opening of Crown Farm is set for Spring of 2014.

No winter holiday celebration is complete with out some Ilex verticillata, or Winterberry. Sprigs of this hardy shrub adorn many centerpieces, mantles, and wreathes during the cold, bitter months. For this reason, among others, we love the Winterberry. During the winter, when the only color in the landscape comes from conifer […]

Commercial landscaping projects are often complex and require out of the box thinking. Property owners and developers often want the look of green, lush lawns, but landscape designers have to go deeper and consider the strength of the underlying structure. For example, many of the projects on which we have […]

Sustainability is increasingly taking the spotlight not just in landscape design but in every element of design.  Here at E-Landscape, we love to create and install projects that promote sustainability while also providing a beautiful, livable space. A beautiful yet sustainable space was exactly what the developers were aiming for when they […]

From our headquarters in Davidsonville, Maryland, E-Landscape serves a variety of commercial clients throughout Maryland, Washington DC, and Virginia. All of these States are a part of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed, and how we design and plant landscapes has a direct impact on the health of the Bay. For this […]

This summer, E-Landscape was proud to be selected to carry out landscape installation work for the Residence at Thayer Avenue project in Silver Spring, Maryland. In recent years, downtown Silver Spring has undergone a major revitalization with an explosion of new office buildings, shopping opportunities and theaters popping up. In parallel […]

Following on our recent work  installing landscape and lawns for new Royal Farms stores in Eldersburg and Bel Air, Maryland, the crews here at E-Landscape are once again busy making new Royal Farms stores look good. This summer, we began work on two new stores, this time in Queen Anne’s County, […]

This month, our crews are busy installing the landscape for the Villages at Belle Hill  in the Elkton, Maryland area. The Villages at Belle Hill is an affordable housing community comprised of 84 apartments designed to look and feel like manor homes and offer residents a high degree of privacy. […]

Our teams have begun work on the landscaping for the new, $19 million Monseñor Romero Apartment project located at 3145 Mount Pleasant Street in Northwest Washington, DC. The development replaces the previous Deauville apartment building that was destroyed by fire in 2008, the most destructive fire in 30 years in […]