Kentlands, Gaithersburg, Maryland

Kentlands, Maryland
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 / 39.11861°N 77.23583°W / 39.11861; -77.23583
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 is a neighborhood of the U.S. city of Gaithersburg, Maryland.

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.^[1]