Wisconsin Ave Development Project

[Anonymous]

https://planning.dc.gov/sites/default/files/d...%20Framework_web.pdf

What do people in the community think of this? How do you think it will impact property values?

I love the idea of developing from Friendship to Tenley as it's a bit of a ghost town for such an affluent area.

[Anonymous]

I'm unconvinced that the demand for housing units for that area is actually there. Even City Ridge is not fully rented and it's closer in. And now IB is trying to sublet the HUGE office space so the eateries are struggling with low foot traffic.

Having more development is welcome. Heard there is another Trader Joes planned for that stretch?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm unconvinced that the demand for housing units for that area is actually there. Even City Ridge is not fully rented and it's closer in. And now IB is trying to sublet the HUGE office space so the eateries are struggling with low foot traffic.

Having more development is welcome. Heard there is another Trader Joes planned for that stretch?

City ridge is a bus ride away from a metro. This is like 3-4 blocks to either Friendship or Tenley depending on the side. That's pretty different.

[Anonymous]

Would be nice if they built 3 bedroom apartments families can actually live in. Also hope they do not build a bunch of fake 2 bedroom apartments where the 2nd bedroom is tiny with no window. They did that in a lot of Navy Yard new builds.

[Anonymous]

Yes, Trader Joe's is coming to Chevy Chase Pavillion.

FH could be incredible if it was connected on the MD side. You could create another Reston Town Center or whatever they call the area in Rockville/North Bethesda with the REI and LL Bean.

You have a wasted surface lot behind the new Mazza replacement, wasted surface lot at the Saks in CC MD. You have the Lord & Taylor site...it seems crazy to turn that into the new bus depot...although I guess that opens up development of the current bus depot.

It needs to be far more mixed-use...apartments, retail, entertainment (Dave & Busters, Pinstripes type places), etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Would be nice if they built 3 bedroom apartments families can actually live in. Also hope they do not build a bunch of fake 2 bedroom apartments where the 2nd bedroom is tiny with no window. They did that in a lot of Navy Yard new builds.

I think that is likely, it was also done in NoMA, but like your idea better!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, Trader Joe's is coming to Chevy Chase Pavillion.

FH could be incredible if it was connected on the MD side. You could create another Reston Town Center or whatever they call the area in Rockville/North Bethesda with the REI and LL Bean.

You have a wasted surface lot behind the new Mazza replacement, wasted surface lot at the Saks in CC MD. You have the Lord & Taylor site...it seems crazy to turn that into the new bus depot...although I guess that opens up development of the current bus depot.

It needs to be far more mixed-use...apartments, retail, entertainment (Dave & Busters, Pinstripes type places), etc.

1) No one in DC wants Pike and Rose there, that is a suburban retrofit of a suburban mall. FH can be better.
2) the surface parking lots, as well as a lot of what is there is going to be redeveloped over the next several years
3) the bus garage at Jenifer street is likely to be moved to a revamped facility where Lord & Taylor is currently, opening up the Wisconsin Ave parcel for something better.


There is a Business Improvement District at FH and they are guiding the redevelopment of the area. It will be great in a decade. And property values all around will go up because of it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, Trader Joe's is coming to Chevy Chase Pavillion.

FH could be incredible if it was connected on the MD side. You could create another Reston Town Center or whatever they call the area in Rockville/North Bethesda with the REI and LL Bean.

You have a wasted surface lot behind the new Mazza replacement, wasted surface lot at the Saks in CC MD. You have the Lord & Taylor site...it seems crazy to turn that into the new bus depot...although I guess that opens up development of the current bus depot.

It needs to be far more mixed-use...apartments, retail, entertainment (Dave & Busters, Pinstripes type places), etc.

I don't know about Reston Town Center, but Pike and Rose has way more parking than anything in DC should have. Or, really, that anything in North Bethesda should have.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, Trader Joe's is coming to Chevy Chase Pavillion.

FH could be incredible if it was connected on the MD side. You could create another Reston Town Center or whatever they call the area in Rockville/North Bethesda with the REI and LL Bean.

You have a wasted surface lot behind the new Mazza replacement, wasted surface lot at the Saks in CC MD. You have the Lord & Taylor site...it seems crazy to turn that into the new bus depot...although I guess that opens up development of the current bus depot.

It needs to be far more mixed-use...apartments, retail, entertainment (Dave & Busters, Pinstripes type places), etc.

I don't know about Reston Town Center, but Pike and Rose has way more parking than anything in DC should have. Or, really, that anything in North Bethesda should have.

Maybe...I am just referring to all the mixed-use retail, hotels, apartments, restaurants, etc. I was surprised how crowded and lively that area was on a weekend night in November.

[Anonymous]

Gee, I've always wanted to live in Ballston -- and now Ballston is coming to me! Yuck.

Anyway, the person who keeps using the word 'activate' in every paragraph in that planning doc must be silenced

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, Trader Joe's is coming to Chevy Chase Pavillion.

FH could be incredible if it was connected on the MD side. You could create another Reston Town Center or whatever they call the area in Rockville/North Bethesda with the REI and LL Bean.

You have a wasted surface lot behind the new Mazza replacement, wasted surface lot at the Saks in CC MD. You have the Lord & Taylor site...it seems crazy to turn that into the new bus depot...although I guess that opens up development of the current bus depot.

It needs to be far more mixed-use...apartments, retail, entertainment (Dave & Busters, Pinstripes type places), etc.

I don't know about Reston Town Center, but Pike and Rose has way more parking than anything in DC should have. Or, really, that anything in North Bethesda should have.

Maybe...I am just referring to all the mixed-use retail, hotels, apartments, restaurants, etc. I was surprised how crowded and lively that area was on a weekend night in November.

There are already two hotels and a bunch of apartments and conodos in FH....the DC side needs to be rebuilt, but the bones are generally already there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, Trader Joe's is coming to Chevy Chase Pavillion.

FH could be incredible if it was connected on the MD side. You could create another Reston Town Center or whatever they call the area in Rockville/North Bethesda with the REI and LL Bean.

You have a wasted surface lot behind the new Mazza replacement, wasted surface lot at the Saks in CC MD. You have the Lord & Taylor site...it seems crazy to turn that into the new bus depot...although I guess that opens up development of the current bus depot.

It needs to be far more mixed-use...apartments, retail, entertainment (Dave & Busters, Pinstripes type places), etc.

Turning Friendship Heights and AU Park into some high rise city with Dave & Busters? No thanks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Gee, I've always wanted to live in Ballston -- and now Ballston is coming to me! Yuck.

Anyway, the person who keeps using the word 'activate' in every paragraph in that planning doc must be silenced

"Activate" is the new Smart Growth industry buzzword, now that "urban vibrancy" has become a term of ridicule.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, Trader Joe's is coming to Chevy Chase Pavillion.

FH could be incredible if it was connected on the MD side. You could create another Reston Town Center or whatever they call the area in Rockville/North Bethesda with the REI and LL Bean.

You have a wasted surface lot behind the new Mazza replacement, wasted surface lot at the Saks in CC MD. You have the Lord & Taylor site...it seems crazy to turn that into the new bus depot...although I guess that opens up development of the current bus depot.

It needs to be far more mixed-use...apartments, retail, entertainment (Dave & Busters, Pinstripes type places), etc.

I don't know about Reston Town Center, but Pike and Rose has way more parking than anything in DC should have. Or, really, that anything in North Bethesda should have.

Funny how many cars with DC tags I see when I walk to Pike and Rose.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Gee, I've always wanted to live in Ballston -- and now Ballston is coming to me! Yuck.

Anyway, the person who keeps using the word 'activate' in every paragraph in that planning doc must be silenced

"Activate" is the new Smart Growth industry buzzword, now that "urban vibrancy" has become a term of ridicule.

Do you think FH should stay the way it is now with a bunch of empty buildings and surface parking lots? What is your development solution for a high transit hub on a major corridor?