DC Downtown Revitalization Plan Announced 2/26

[Anonymous]

More details here, but not re: safety piece. Curious if that is money already in the budget or an increase linked to the proposed development?

https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/dc/downtown-dc-revitalization-plans/65-ceda037a-c9e5-4a35-bb54-b2ea769a74fb

Would be wonderful if it comes to pass, not sure how realistic it is without public safety genuinely being increased? I understand that many years ago there used to be more residential housing in the downtown core, having more mixed use again would help support local businesses.

[Anonymous]

I like drugs. 😎

[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.

It’s block by block. Feel lucky you’re on one of the safe ones. I see them all the time by my office. (Chinatown)

[Anonymous]

Sliving!

[Anonymous]

I feel like we just revitalized DC. I wonder how many times in my lifetime it will be revitalized. It’s like yo-yo dieting.

[Anonymous]

Does it include towing all of the abandoned food trucks parked near the Holocaust Museum?

If you tow the tucks, you make street parking available for people coming into the area.

Win Win

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I feel like we just revitalized DC. I wonder how many times in my lifetime it will be revitalized. It’s like yo-yo dieting.

So much progress from the late 90s until 2019 was erased. Will take another 20 years to get back whenever rock bottom eventually comes (so far we’re sharpening the drill bits to dig further).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does it include towing all of the abandoned food trucks parked near the Holocaust Museum?

If you tow the tucks, you make street parking available for people coming into the area.

Win Win

Maybe report to 311?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I feel like we just revitalized DC. I wonder how many times in my lifetime it will be revitalized. It’s like yo-yo dieting.

So much progress from the late 90s until 2019 was erased. Will take another 20 years to get back whenever rock bottom eventually comes (so far we’re sharpening the drill bits to dig further).

True except housing was more affordable to a wider group of people in the early 2000s.

This event was pathetic and served as yet another reminder that the Bowser administration has no clue about running a large city.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I feel like we just revitalized DC. I wonder how many times in my lifetime it will be revitalized. It’s like yo-yo dieting.

So much progress from the late 90s until 2019 was erased. Will take another 20 years to get back whenever rock bottom eventually comes (so far we’re sharpening the drill bits to dig further).

Hopefully it will happen, and in a shorter time. It's hard to see things slip back. I feel less safe than I did in the early 90s when crime was less random and not common in daylight, near LE or near witnesses.

Delaying the vote on Pinto's bill does not seem like a great sign. I hope it can be turned around. We had planned to retire here.

Downtown was a draw not that long ago. Not sure this plan will get DC where it needs to go but fingers crossed.

[Anonymous]

Drugs. 😎

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I feel like we just revitalized DC. I wonder how many times in my lifetime it will be revitalized. It’s like yo-yo dieting.

So much progress from the late 90s until 2019 was erased. Will take another 20 years to get back whenever rock bottom eventually comes (so far we’re sharpening the drill bits to dig further).

True except housing was more affordable to a wider group of people in the early 2000s.

This event was pathetic and served as yet another reminder that the Bowser administration has no clue about running a large city.

This seemed kind of amorphous too

https://www.fox5dc.com/news/dc-mayor-opens-safe-commercial-corridor-hub-in-chinatown

[Anonymous]

MORE CRIME PREVENTION! Less letting the city die due to hurt feelings. Actually run the city and make the hard decisions. Worst mayor ever.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:MORE CRIME PREVENTION! Less letting the city die due to hurt feelings. Actually run the city and make the hard decisions. Worst mayor ever.

And no more passing the blame. You leadership and failed to lead. And absolutely destroyed what we all built.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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

Yes, there is drug trade in DC and it's gotten worse in recent years.

It is not in the downtown business district in a way that would make anyone describe that area as an "open air drug market."