What are the next "happening" cool neighborhoods in DC?

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Where is Stronghold?

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Anonymous wrote:U St is too expensive, H St too gentrified, Petworth way discovered. What are the next hot neighborhoods in DC, where first movers get some real estate advantage but which will be vibrant and happening very soon?

No it isn't.

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Anonymous wrote:Southwest DC - bunch of new rental and condo residential, several hotels, music hall to be managed by the the 9:30 Club, restaurants with a couple big name owner/chefs, entertainment piers, park space...

Tell me more about the new club.

I agree that SW has lots of potential.

There are set to be a couple music venues in the new development - a "music hall" with a couple thousand seats, that the owner of the 9:30 club has been talked about in conjunction with for a couple of years. http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/capitalbusiness/works-begins-on-the-wharf-big-project-on-southwest-waterfront/2014/03/19/bab3d210-afa1-11e3-95e8-39bef8e9a48b_story.html When they started construction this spring, most news outlets implied it was a done deal. There are also a couple smaller ones, the Post article linked here (which also talks about the 9:30 club thing) mentions, somewhat improbably a country western place and an Irish bar and I think one of the cross cutting streets in the development is called "blues alley".
In the meantime, there's really very good, if old school, jazz on Fridays in SW at that church by the duck pond.

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Anonymous wrote:trinidad is already happening, but its block by block.

SW is happening too, but still some relative bargains, I guess.

First EOTR nabe I would bet on is Historic Anacostia - very close to Navy Yard, good bones, already has the seed of an arts district, Bus Boys coming soon, and Barry Farms to be redevelped.

Yeah, I think SW was never particularly gritty - more, a bit suburban and isolated and low on amenities. But, it's quiet and green and you can get townhouses, albeit with a large HOA fee, for under $600k which, for a safe and quiet neighborhood in the city is a good price, I think. And I agree that the development on the Wharf will boost property values.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:trinidad is already happening, but its block by block.

SW is happening too, but still some relative bargains, I guess.

First EOTR nabe I would bet on is Historic Anacostia - very close to Navy Yard, good bones, already has the seed of an arts district, Bus Boys coming soon, and Barry Farms to be redevelped.

Love Historic Anacostia - used to go there when lived on Hill. DK Bus Boys coming to that neighborhood.

[Anonymous]

Edgewood, Eckington, Woodridge

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:trinidad is already happening, but its block by block.

SW is happening too, but still some relative bargains, I guess.

First EOTR nabe I would bet on is Historic Anacostia - very close to Navy Yard, good bones, already has the seed of an arts district, Bus Boys coming soon, and Barry Farms to be redevelped.

Love Historic Anacostia - used to go there when lived on Hill. DK Bus Boys coming to that neighborhood.

This is a joke, right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Where is Stronghold?

It's in a small pyramid north of Eckington, east of McMillian, South of WHC. We are looking at an investment townhome right there right now. With the McMillan redevelopment, the changes in Brookland, etc, it seems like a good investment potential. Just wiki it.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:trinidad is already happening, but its block by block.

SW is happening too, but still some relative bargains, I guess.

First EOTR nabe I would bet on is Historic Anacostia - very close to Navy Yard, good bones, already has the seed of an arts district, Bus Boys coming soon, and Barry Farms to be redevelped.

Love Historic Anacostia - used to go there when lived on Hill. DK Bus Boys coming to that neighborhood.

This is a joke, right?

No, it is not. Why would you think it is a joke?

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Upper GA Ave near Walter Reed (that is being redeveloped), the area around MacMillan that isn't already turned over (Stronghold), and SW adjacent to the ballpark.

And for the person who said SW was never gritty, before Urban Renewal, it was actually a real neighborhood instead of all the tidy towers.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Where is Stronghold?

It's in a small pyramid north of Eckington, east of McMillian, South of WHC. We are looking at an investment townhome right there right now. With the McMillan redevelopment, the changes in Brookland, etc, it seems like a good investment potential. Just wiki it.

I have friends who just bought an investment townhome there! Seems like a good deal.

[Anonymous]

Deanwood and Lily Ponds will be the last of the neighborhoods to turn. Still too much crime.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:trinidad is already happening, but its block by block.

SW is happening too, but still some relative bargains, I guess.

First EOTR nabe I would bet on is Historic Anacostia - very close to Navy Yard, good bones, already has the seed of an arts district, Bus Boys coming soon, and Barry Farms to be redevelped.

Love Historic Anacostia - used to go there when lived on Hill. DK Bus Boys coming to that neighborhood.

This is a joke, right?

Talk about ignorant. Go back to the burbs. Isn't it time to pop your next oxycontin?

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Anonymous wrote:U St is too expensive, H St too gentrified, Petworth way discovered. What are the next hot neighborhoods in DC, where first movers get some real estate advantage but which will be vibrant and happening very soon?

No it isn't.

I completely agree. Last time I was there - I found it kind of dumpy. Yes there are some cool restaurants but they are scattered and far between. Lots of blocks still underdeveloped.

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Fort Totten is in NE by the Fort Totten Metro. The actual neighborhoods there are North Michigan Park, Lamond-Riggs, and Riggs Park. They just broke ground on the Arts Place development (fingers crossed that it will actually include a children's museum as planned!) a couple weeks ago, and the mixed-use development at Riggs and South Dakota is more than halfway done.

I think that areas near a metro station generally are a good bet.