DC Downtown Revitalization Plan Announced 2/26

[Anonymous]

DC Downtown Revitalization Plan Announced 2/26

[twitter]DC Downtown Revitalization Plan Announced 2/26[/twitter]

Anyone feel optimistic?

[Anonymous]

[Anonymous]

"Investing in the cultural relevance of Black Lives Matter plaza..."

Lots of buzzwords, not any of it is realistic without downtown becoming safer again.

[Anonymous]

The headline should be the $240 million decline in tax revenues.

[Anonymous]

This it?

https://dmped.dc.gov/page/downtown

Bringing people back to Gallery Place with the open air drug market and crime seems very pie in the sky and putting the cart before the horse. Gallery Place Festival Plaza seems to be a reach to me. Unless the goal is to provide prey?

[Anonymous]

What are the specifics with this: "$31.5 million for public safety initiatives"

[Anonymous]

Spend every single dollar of this proposal on increasing police officers and crime prevention.

The revitalization will happen organically once that's done.

[Anonymous]

Boy, do we have a sock puppet on this thread or what?

[Anonymous]

Nothing can happen in DC until they get crime under control -- throughout DC. Only then will companies, institutions, and home buyers want to invest again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What are the specifics with this: "$31.5 million for public safety initiatives"

More “violence interrupters and $$ to “wrap around services” for underprivileged youth.

[Anonymous]

They should spend the money to paint murals.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nothing can happen in DC until they get crime under control -- throughout DC. Only then will companies, institutions, and home buyers want to invest again.

We are building out 45,000 square feet of office space in a trophy building downtown. Speak for yourself. Houses are still selling.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This it?

https://dmped.dc.gov/page/downtown

Bringing people back to Gallery Place with the open air drug market and crime seems very pie in the sky and putting the cart before the horse. Gallery Place Festival Plaza seems to be a reach to me. Unless the goal is to provide prey?

I work downtown. I don't see open air drug markets.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nothing can happen in DC until they get crime under control -- throughout DC. Only then will companies, institutions, and home buyers want to invest again.

We are building out 45,000 square feet of office space in a trophy building downtown. Speak for yourself. Houses are still selling.

That is encouraging. Which neighborhood downtown? I'm guessing Penn Quarter?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This it?

https://dmped.dc.gov/page/downtown

Bringing people back to Gallery Place with the open air drug market and crime seems very pie in the sky and putting the cart before the horse. Gallery Place Festival Plaza seems to be a reach to me. Unless the goal is to provide prey?

I work downtown. I don't see open air drug markets.

From WP:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/dc-mayor-resurrects-old-policy-to-target-open-air-drug-markets/ar-AA1jpACC