who's moving into city ridge?

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Anonymous wrote:There are tons of new apartments being built in the area, and NOVA and a ton of vacancies too. Makes no sense at all.

Agree, I was just looking at apartments in Rosslyn and you can get a larger two bed than at City Ridge for 4k in brand new buildings with excellent amenities and better gyms. The gym at City Ridge looks pretty pathetic relative to the apartment cost.

Which building?

Cortland and Central Place. Central Place will have a multi-year construction right next to it for the next couple of years though so I would not go there right now.

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We are moving there. Over 40 dinks who don’t want to own something and want to live in the district. Closeness to nightlife is irrelevant to us. Closeness to parkland due to outdoorsy interests and a dog are important. Wegmans on site is a huge plus. Easy commute to K street.

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Anonymous wrote:We are moving there. Over 40 dinks who don’t want to own something and want to live in the district. Closeness to nightlife is irrelevant to us. Closeness to parkland due to outdoorsy interests and a dog are important. Wegmans on site is a huge plus. Easy commute to K street.

How are the units and common space?

We live closeby and have been walking over there a lot. The access to Glover Park after getting a coffee at Tatte/ Wegmans is a good loop with the dog.

I wish they had a few more things open in the complex. It seems like one of the gyms will have a pool.

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The units are good but not great. The common space is amazing. We used to live at the woodley, but there’s too much construction over there now at the old Marriott.

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Anonymous wrote:Dinks.

Why would DINKs want to live in Upper NW?

The only reason to be there is the schools. If you're a DINK willing to pay a premium to live in an apartment like you would in City Ridge you'd want to live somewhere you can walk to nightlife.

Mid-40’s dink here and we live in upper NW.

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Anonymous wrote:I had the same question as the OP.

I live about 1-2 miles away from CityRidge (in Bethesda). I like the new Wegmann's, although it's kind of odd how the parking works. I recently went there to pick up a graduation cake, and was charged $6 to park, even though I was only in the store for 10 minutes. (I guess it was my bad for rushing and not doing the parking validation.) But I digress . . .

Anyway, I figure that they developer must have done a lot of market research before embarking on this development. If I were in the market for a condo/rental, I would personally live in downtown Bethesda, which has a lot of amenities. But I can see the appeal of CityRidge. It is definitely in a nice neighborhood, and maybe people have a reason for wanting that particular location, even though it's located in a residential neighborhood of detached houses (and therefore not a ton within walking distance). Tenleytown is OK, but does not have as much to offer as downtown Bethesda, which is just 2 Metro stops up the Red line.

You are complaining about the cost of parking when you were too lazy to validate? What is wrong with you? Is everything always everyone else's fault?

PP here. Your reaction may be a bit out of proportion to my comment. I was just pointing out that, for a grocery store (which is a place that people visit at least weekly), it's nice to have relatively hassle-free parking. Of course, Wegman's can do whatever it wants to do. (Per a friend of mine in Virginia, Wegman's removed some paid parking when the wealthy retirees in the high-rise condos nearby complained about being charged a parking fee to park to go to a grocery store. It's different if you're parking at a mall, restaurant, office, airport, etc. Then, I think people don't mind paying to park. I'll probably continue to go to that Wegman's, as it's a nice store.

Parking in VA versus parking in DC are two completely different animals.

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Do they take vouchers?

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The problem is the inner courtyard. The more urban types aren’t used to respecting any rules and it can get very loud and disrespectful.

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Anonymous wrote:Dinks.

Why on earth would dinks want to be in this part of town?

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Pricing is not much different from downtown Bethesda.

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If I sent my kids to private school, I’d live in upper NW DC. Since I have to work for my money, I live in Bethesda and send them to public school

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Divorced dads whose ex wives and kids live in NW DC.

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Anonymous wrote:Dinks.

Why would DINKs want to live in Upper NW?

The only reason to be there is the schools. If you're a DINK willing to pay a premium to live in an apartment like you would in City Ridge you'd want to live somewhere you can walk to nightlife.

I know this is gonna blow your mind, but not everyone cares about being walkable to nightlife. I would say this is doubly so for DINKs that are 40 and older.

Dining access is more important for older DINKs, especially fine dining. Does Tenleytown offer a lot of dining/entertainment options? Maybe some nature trails, waterfront? IDK honestly what's so attractive to entice people to pay huge rents when they can rent in the city, close to all the above. I am familiar with Tenleytown, but it's not really that amazing in and of itself. It's attractive for families.

My guess is their renters are probably people for whom work commute works out better, rich students, divorced parents with shared custody. Might be corporate housing too or long term furnished rentals. I lived in one of the luxury apartment buildings where apartments were rented to the companies that provided temporary furnished housing or corporate housing on month to month basis.

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If I didn’t have a big dog, I’d definitely live in city ridge

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Dinks.

Why would DINKs want to live in Upper NW?

The only reason to be there is the schools. If you're a DINK willing to pay a premium to live in an apartment like you would in City Ridge you'd want to live somewhere you can walk to nightlife.

I know this is gonna blow your mind, but not everyone cares about being walkable to nightlife. I would say this is doubly so for DINKs that are 40 and older.

Dining access is more important for older DINKs, especially fine dining. Does Tenleytown offer a lot of dining/entertainment options? Maybe some nature trails, waterfront? IDK honestly what's so attractive to entice people to pay huge rents when they can rent in the city, close to all the above. I am familiar with Tenleytown, but it's not really that amazing in and of itself. It's attractive for families.

My guess is their renters are probably people for whom work commute works out better, rich students, divorced parents with shared custody. Might be corporate housing too or long term furnished rentals. I lived in one of the luxury apartment buildings where apartments were rented to the companies that provided temporary furnished housing or corporate housing on month to month basis.

It’s just a convenient location. You’re a short drive or Uber to glover park, Georgetown, and 14th st if you wanna go out. And going back it’s not like going to Bethesda or Virginia. I figure tenleytown being kinda boring is part of the pull: I don’t wanna hear partying outside or worse, brawls, at 11 pm . A nice apartment right on top of a wegmans and without the craziness of 14th st is quite nice. Agree that it’s top dollar for what you get but that’s new apartments for you