Blasting shakes up downtown Bethesda

Blasting at a construction project in downtown Bethesda has left store owners and residents shaken — literally.

Crews have been blasting out dense rock at a construction site on the corners of Woodmont and Bethesda avenues across from Bethesda Row, leaving a 3.3-acre hole in the ground where old Parking Lot 31 used to sit. The blasts started in early December and were halted during January. But they’re back, shaking the neighborhood each time an explosion occurs.