Food Deserts

[Anonymous]

One area that decidedly is NOT a food desert is Wisconsin Avenue NW. From the Georgetown Safeway to the huge Whole Foods just above Western Avenue, the entire corridor is home to lots of grocery stores: a Trader Joes, three Whole Foods, the giant Giant, an even bigger Wegmans,and even an Amazon market. Lidl will open next year next to the Wegmans. Did every grocery corporation use the same consultants who told them to locate on Wisconsin Avenue?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Capitol Hill USED to be a food desert, but is the opposite now. I can walk to all of the stores (except for the Navy Yard ones) listed in the PP in 30 minutes or less.

So it doesn’t have the amenities if a “15 minute city” like it should. Probably because it’s too low density which is why housing is so expensive. Need to remove the historical designation so they can build more housing.

Take your pro-development, property rights Libertarianism somewhere else.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:One area that decidedly is NOT a food desert is Wisconsin Avenue NW. From the Georgetown Safeway to the huge Whole Foods just above Western Avenue, the entire corridor is home to lots of grocery stores: a Trader Joes, three Whole Foods, the giant Giant, an even bigger Wegmans,and even an Amazon market. Lidl will open next year next to the Wegmans. Did every grocery corporation use the same consultants who told them to locate on Wisconsin Avenue?

Just a few years ago it wasn’t so plentiful. The AU Park Safeway was closed and torn down. The Georgetown Whole Foods was closed due to rats and lawsuits and the Georgetown Trader Joe’s hadn’t yet opened.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Capitol Hill USED to be a food desert, but is the opposite now. I can walk to all of the stores (except for the Navy Yard ones) listed in the PP in 30 minutes or less.

So it doesn’t have the amenities if a “15 minute city” like it should. Probably because it’s too low density which is why housing is so expensive. Need to remove the historical designation so they can build more housing.

You might want to take at look at housing costs in nearby high density areas such as Navy Yard, NoMa, Union Market, H Street, 14th Street, Columbia Heights, etc. And for sh*ts and giggles, the new high density development at Eastern Market and Hill East around the Safeway and Fragers. it’s fun to live untethered to the real world.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Capitol Hill USED to be a food desert, but is the opposite now. I can walk to all of the stores (except for the Navy Yard ones) listed in the PP in 30 minutes or less.

So it doesn’t have the amenities if a “15 minute city” like it should. Probably because it’s too low density which is why housing is so expensive. Need to remove the historical designation so they can build more housing.

You might want to take at look at housing costs in nearby high density areas such as Navy Yard, NoMa, Union Market, H Street, 14th Street, Columbia Heights, etc. And for sh*ts and giggles, the new high density development at Eastern Market and Hill East around the Safeway and Fragers. it’s fun to live untethered to the real world.

Clearly those areas are not high density enough. However, if all of Capitol Hill was a high density as Navy Yard then rent on Capital Hill AND Navy Yard would not be so expensive. That’s a no brainer and a strong reason why the historical designation needs to be removed and the neighborhood upzoned.

[Anonymous]

Guess why food deserts exist ? Politicians allowing crime to run rampant and businesses deciding to close or move as a result

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Capitol Hill USED to be a food desert, but is the opposite now. I can walk to all of the stores (except for the Navy Yard ones) listed in the PP in 30 minutes or less.

So it doesn’t have the amenities if a “15 minute city” like it should. Probably because it’s too low density which is why housing is so expensive. Need to remove the historical designation so they can build more housing.

You might want to take at look at housing costs in nearby high density areas such as Navy Yard, NoMa, Union Market, H Street, 14th Street, Columbia Heights, etc. And for sh*ts and giggles, the new high density development at Eastern Market and Hill East around the Safeway and Fragers. it’s fun to live untethered to the real world.

Clearly those areas are not high density enough. However, if all of Capitol Hill was a high density as Navy Yard then rent on Capital Hill AND Navy Yard would not be so expensive. That’s a no brainer and a strong reason why the historical designation needs to be removed and the neighborhood upzoned.

So let’s bulldoze all the rowhouse is a no brainer? Because that worked so well with the “urban renewal” movement of the 1950s and 1960s. Just keep building, regardless of repercussions. The same simplistic thinking that presupposes traffic jams will disappear if we just keep adding lanes to highways. You might want to spend some time in Navy Yard before trying to tell us that it’s not high density enough. The housing market is more complicated than what you learned about supply and demand in perfect markets in high school Economics.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Capitol Hill USED to be a food desert, but is the opposite now. I can walk to all of the stores (except for the Navy Yard ones) listed in the PP in 30 minutes or less.

Yes. 20 years ago we had only the SE Safeway and Eastern Market and smaller stores. Now there's that, Giant, two Trader Joes, two Whole Foods, Harris Teeter in NOMA and Navy Yard, Aldi on 17th St NE, Yes on 8th St SE. It's a glut of groceries.