Largely because of Wilson demand? |
This thread has always made me wonder why there is so much hostility to GDS. Why the repeated Harvard and Team of Aces comments? It's just a school trying to make a smart investment decision. Maybe what they were proposing was good for all interested parties. Maybe not. But why not just debate it based on the specifics of the proposal? The venom isn't necessary. Or healthy. |
And AU and Deal and GDS. Basically, Tenleytown hosts lots of kids for school, sports, music lessons, etc. Cheap and fast food is a pretty logical/lucrative use for storefronts in the area. |
The guy who writes that stuff over and over is such a douche he wears Summer's Eve for cologne. I hope to God my kids don't go to school with his. |
Glut? I think you know not the meaning of the word. There is huge demand for multifamily housing in upper NW. The 5333 CT Ave is mostly leased, well ahead of schedule, and every other residential building is fully rented or sold, except for a couple of the flip condos near Nebraska and Conn. Aves. You could line Wisconsin Avenue with 10 story buildings from Glover Park to Western Ave and they would all rent out. |
Or we can continue to line the street with single story Chik Fil A's and then blame Wilson kids for how crappy our neighborhood looks with our lineup of franchises. |
And the kids in many of those 10 story apartments would all crowd into Janney. But so what, as long as GDS, the Aces and their developer cronies get to pocket the profits... |
Today's young professionals want to be near U St. They don't consider Tenleytown and Conn Ave. exactly cool. The Eighties and Nineties are over. |
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And of course the primary opponent to the new development at Martens were the residents at Tenley Hill, the 10 story building across the street, who didn't want their view blocked.
Irony? http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/news/article/13027041/wisconsin-badgers And to add, the owner-occupied PN Hoffman building was ok, but a rental building of the same size is not. You people are deplorable. |
Don't know enough to say who is most deeply concerned about overdevelopment, but the concern is broad. Overdevelopment hurts the entire Janney/Deal/Wilson area and the traffic impacts almost as wide an area.
There is room for more development on Wisconsin Ave. right above the Tenley station with lots of single story property if the market supports development. I do hope, though, that the city can find a way to make developers pay for neighborhood improvements to support the additional density. Anyone know how the city deals with of right development which adds density? |
Before calling people in the neighborhood deplorable, you should visit Janney and explain to Janney parents how it is not over-crowded. And perhaps you can compare density levels at Janney to GDS as well as the suburban neighborhood schools from which many GDS students travel to DC. There are practical issues here. |
The people who would live in these buildings would probably not be car owners, so the traffic concerns are unwarranted, particularly for a street that is already begrimed with traffic. Suburban traffic, which will only get worse because we are pushing people to live further out with cars rather than closer in without cars. |
Maybe the boundaries need to be redrawn to alleviate the current overcrowding, but wait, you already fought that to maintain the status quo. |