Dust Lanes within the galactic bars of spiral galaxies are essential for transporting material from the galactic disk in to the inner nuclei. Despite their close proximity, the Milky Way’s Galactic Bar Dust Lanes have been relatively unexplored. In my talk I will present recent GBT observations of a newly detected GMC located at the midpoint of the Milky Way Galactic Bar Dust Lanes (Butterfield et al. 2025, submitted). These observations (of NH3 and HC5N) show abundant dense gas - with velocity dispersion values similar to those observed in the Galactic Center. A comparison of the dense gas emission to dust continuum from Herschel and Spitzer suggests the GMC may contain multiple sites of star formation within the structure.
