After more than 50 years on Cordell Avenue, a local plumbing and heating business is moving up Rockville Pike.
John Leahy, owner of Leahy’s Plumbing & Heating, left a message on his just-vacated 4916 Cordell Ave. storefront window.
“It’s been fun to watch Bethesda change over my lifetime and it’s hard to say goodbye to the neighborhood I’ve grown up in, but it has become very difficult to navigate the downtown Bethesda traffic and parking in our service vehicles and we are ready for a change,” Leahy wrote.
On Friday, Leahy said he was too busy handling the move to talk details, but he’ll open a new store at an unspecified location near White Flint. The business has been in the Leahy family for more than 75 years, handling basic plumbing services, kitchen and bathroom remodeling, stove and fireplace hookups and other jobs.
The space is now up for lease from Conley Management, the company that leases out a number of older properties around Woodmont Triangle.
“We’ll still be providing the same grew service my family has been providing since 1927,” Leahy wrote. “Stop by and say hello if you find yourself near our new shop.”
