In 1960, Montgomery County was still figuring out what it was going to be. The farmland was going fast.
New houses were going up on streets that hadn’t existed a decade earlier, and the people moving into them were young, had cars, and needed somewhere to spend money. Wheaton Plaza was built for exactly that moment.
The partnership behind Wheaton Plaza came together in 1955. Its original partners were the Gudelsky brothers: Isadore, Harry, and Homer, along with Theodore N. Lerner, H. Max Ammerman, and Simon Sherman…