For teenagers in my part of Montgomery County, White Flint was the fancy mall. Going there was like entering a terrarium of upmarket commerce, an aspirational biosphere. People in Bethesda might have been accustomed to glass elevators, but for us in Rockville, they were a big deal. (And no, White Flint is not — never was — in “North Bethesda.”) And so I reacted with some sadness when I learned that White Flint is going to be “deconstructed”: torn down to be turned into a “town center.
