Mall in Columbia Heights - It has changed

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Things are getting bad

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Anonymous wrote:The developers ruined Columbia Heights. It had more charm before they swept in like locusts. I am not anti development, I am anti greedy, bad development. GGW urban vibrancy is a Brooklyn Bridge for sale that too many bought.

GGW is the worst, especially considering that they are sucking the teat of DC taxpayers thanks to the $$ that the DC government gives them.

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Anonymous wrote:Tried to buy my kids body wash from that Target last week. It was locked up. I pressed the buzzer and waited about 10 minutes before giving up.

Situation isn't great over there.

You should’ve just bought it on the street right outside.

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I watched the video about the CVS, and the kids stealing and stomping on chips. And then they interviewed a couple of young professionals outside who were like, we don't like the shelves are empty but maybe the problem is the city needs to provide more bodywash to "the poor". We feel so bad for "the poor". They really don't get that this is just anarchy because you can, and has nothing to do with needing bodywash to survive?

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Another 200 units of subsidized housing is getting built at Fairmont and 14th, I used to live on that block and it was bad enough 10 years ago. I also just heard the CVS in CH is closing i a month. The city council and mayor should stop spending money to subsidize housing and more on crime control.

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How are the poor going to get their body wash if the CVS is closed? What do those educated young professionas think now?

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Sad to hear about the CVS closing. Businesses in that area are not supported or protected.

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What's the problem? Isn't this the bright, vibrant culture progressives wanted?

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Anonymous wrote:Another 200 units of subsidized housing is getting built at Fairmont and 14th, I used to live on that block and it was bad enough 10 years ago. I also just heard the CVS in CH is closing i a month. The city council and mayor should stop spending money to subsidize housing and more on crime control.

We have a major housing crisis in this city and you are complaining about subsidized housing?

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Most of yall seem really judgy. And kinda racist like a MAGA.

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Anonymous wrote:My guess is that housing prices have not dropped as much as one might think just because there is not a lot of housing stock of that size available. Mt Pleasant is more expensive. U Street---which has much smaller houses---is super busy and the prices are astronomical. Hill is a great neighborhood but a difficult place to live if you have to commute to work anywhere else in the District.

The problem with Columbia Heights was always that there was simply too much high poverty subsidized housing concentrated in Columbia Heights Village and the older large apartments lining and adjacent to 14th Street. There was a lot of crime in Columbia Heights PRIOR to the building boom around the metro in 2008-2012. Jim Graham, crook though he was, was tough on crime and vigilant about holding MPD to account to try to maintain order to protect the redeveloped businesses. Brianne "decriminalize everything" Nadeau is the opposite. In contrast to 14th street, the areas between 13th Street and Sherman Avenue have a better feel---they were always more rowhouse residential; the restaurants along 11th Street were local and grew organically into the older retail spaces along that block.

This is spot on. We moved from CH 8 years ago, and I was really sad about it at the time. In retrospect, one of the best decisions we ever made.

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Anonymous wrote:Another 200 units of subsidized housing is getting built at Fairmont and 14th, I used to live on that block and it was bad enough 10 years ago. I also just heard the CVS in CH is closing i a month. The city council and mayor should stop spending money to subsidize housing and more on crime control.

We have a major housing crisis in this city and you are complaining about subsidized housing?

Yes. And there is no major housing crisis. There is plenty of housing -just not in the places where everyone believes that they are entitled to live.

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Anonymous wrote:Bummer. Yeah we used to live there but left after a random stabbing at the Chipotle, and then a shooting in a nearby PLAYGROUND in the middle of the day. Shortly after we left, someone I know was assaulted really badly walking home.

There have been a lot of shootings on that playground and Fairmont was notorious for muggings. People think any of this is new? Do your due diligence.

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And yet the answer is to put MORE low income housing in that neighborhood.

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Anonymous wrote:Most of yall seem really judgy. And kinda racist like a MAGA.

What does it say about you that you find something racist in being anti-theft?