High-rise apartments outpace new office space in Silver Spring

One of Montgomery County's top business advisers told the Silver Spring Citizens Advisory Board this week that the area has a disproportionate amount of new high-rise apartment projects compared to office space because "high-rise apartments are the only thing that's getting financed," the Gazette reported Tuesday.

Steve Silverman, director of the county's Department of Economic Development, said there is "a lot of pent-up demand" for these high-rise housing developments from young people living…