Mosaic District townhomes

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ive worked in Merrifield for the past 10 years and have watched the area grow. Its too discombobulated right now. You have apartments mixed in with warehouses and a waste transfer station behind the Home Depot; you're at the intersection of major roadways with lots of traffic; the schools seem kind of sketchy; there are still alot of run down strip shopping centers. The area doesn't yet have a distinct "personality".....

Maybe you worked there 10 years a go , moron

Sounds like some really nice people live out there in MoDi. Maybe I should buy a condo out there or something.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why do people insist on calling Merrifiield "the mosaic DISTRICT"? Merrifiield had been around for 40+ years.

Why the attempted rebranding? Is this the virginia suburban answer to "north Potomac" (Gaithersburg), "north Georgetown" (burleith & glover park) and my favorite, "Everythng Shall Now Be Called Logan Circle" ?

People don't refer to Merrifield as the Mosaic District, people refer to the Mosaic District as the Mosaic District. OP is looking at town houses that are a part of that specific development, hence the terminology.

Let us try this again. The area you like to call the mosaic district was called merrified 15 minutes ago.

Why did the name have to change for the exact same address? To erase previous associations.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why do people insist on calling Merrifiield "the mosaic DISTRICT"? Merrifiield had been around for 40+ years.

Why the attempted rebranding? Is this the virginia suburban answer to "north Potomac" (Gaithersburg), "north Georgetown" (burleith & glover park) and my favorite, "Everythng Shall Now Be Called Logan Circle" ?

People don't refer to Merrifield as the Mosaic District, people refer to the Mosaic District as the Mosaic District. OP is looking at town houses that are a part of that specific development, hence the terminology.

Let us try this again. The area you like to call the mosaic district was called merrified 15 minutes ago.

Why did the name have to change for the exact same address? To erase previous associations.

I don't think that's correct. The Mosaic District is the name for these few walkable blocks with Target, restaurants, movie center etc. Nothing else.

Merrifield is the larger area around it. I don't think anything in Merrifield belongs to the Mosaic District except, well, the Mosaic District.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why do people insist on calling Merrifiield "the mosaic DISTRICT"? Merrifiield had been around for 40+ years.

Why the attempted rebranding? Is this the virginia suburban answer to "north Potomac" (Gaithersburg), "north Georgetown" (burleith & glover park) and my favorite, "Everythng Shall Now Be Called Logan Circle" ?

People don't refer to Merrifield as the Mosaic District, people refer to the Mosaic District as the Mosaic District. OP is looking at town houses that are a part of that specific development, hence the terminology.

Let us try this again. The area you like to call the mosaic district was called merrified 15 minutes ago.

Why did the name have to change for the exact same address? To erase previous associations.

I don't think that's correct. The Mosaic District is the name for these few walkable blocks with Target, restaurants, movie center etc. Nothing else.

Merrifield is the larger area around it. I don't think anything in Merrifield belongs to the Mosaic District except, well, the Mosaic District.

The Mosaic is the development. Merrifield is an actual postal address.

[Anonymous]

Why couldn't the developers of Bethesda Row just call it the intersection of Exeter and Arlington? Were they trying to suggest there was actually something new there?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why couldn't the developers of Bethesda Row just call it the intersection of Exeter and Arlington? Were they trying to suggest there was actually something new there?

The difference between Bethesda Row and the Mosaic District is that the concrete plant that used to be where Rio Grande is now isn't there anymore. Whereas the aforementioned waste transfer station is still there.

[Anonymous]

Four Sisters is much better than a Rio Grande Cafe.

[Anonymous]

Wow, way to miss my point entirely.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why couldn't the developers of Bethesda Row just call it the intersection of Exeter and Arlington? Were they trying to suggest there was actually something new there?

Back at you -- why couldn't it continue to be called "Bethesda," which is what it was called when I first started frequenting that intersection to buy dog food in about 1993.

I live in Chevy Chase. I built a new home on Bradley Blvd. after tearing down the older home that stood there in Chevy Chase since the 1940s. Also, I have always liked the name "Esmerelda," after the MIL in the show 'Bewitched.'

I decide, since my tear down McMansion is so much shinier and slick than the surrounding 1940s colonials on Bradley and Brookeville, that I will begin calling the area around my new home, as well as the new home itself, "Esmerelda." No more Chevy Chase. Now, I live in Esmerelda. Because I said so.

When friends say, 'Where is book club next month? Isn't it at Anne's place in Chevy Chase?" my buddy will correct them and say, "No! It's at Anne's place in Esmerelda."

[Anonymous]

I think it's pretty common for developers to do this (Bethesda Row, Market Commons in Clarendon, etc) but people usually still just say Bethesda or Clarendon. The difference is nobody knows what the dump surrounding Mosaic District is so they just use the builder's marketing name.

[Anonymous]

There are nice town homes with attached garages across from the metro for about $600k. Try those if you like walkable in that area.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why couldn't the developers of Bethesda Row just call it the intersection of Exeter and Arlington? Were they trying to suggest there was actually something new there?

Back at you -- why couldn't it continue to be called "Bethesda," which is what it was called when I first started frequenting that intersection to buy dog food in about 1993.

I live in Chevy Chase. I built a new home on Bradley Blvd. after tearing down the older home that stood there in Chevy Chase since the 1940s. Also, I have always liked the name "Esmerelda," after the MIL in the show 'Bewitched.'

I decide, since my tear down McMansion is so much shinier and slick than the surrounding 1940s colonials on Bradley and Brookeville, that I will begin calling the area around my new home, as well as the new home itself, "Esmerelda." No more Chevy Chase. Now, I live in Esmerelda. Because I said so.

When friends say, 'Where is book club next month? Isn't it at Anne's place in Chevy Chase?" my buddy will correct them and say, "No! It's at Anne's place in Esmerelda."

You need a new hobby. So many words employed to so little effect.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why couldn't the developers of Bethesda Row just call it the intersection of Exeter and Arlington? Were they trying to suggest there was actually something new there?

Back at you -- why couldn't it continue to be called "Bethesda," which is what it was called when I first started frequenting that intersection to buy dog food in about 1993.

I live in Chevy Chase. I built a new home on Bradley Blvd. after tearing down the older home that stood there in Chevy Chase since the 1940s. Also, I have always liked the name "Esmerelda," after the MIL in the show 'Bewitched.'

I decide, since my tear down McMansion is so much shinier and slick than the surrounding 1940s colonials on Bradley and Brookeville, that I will begin calling the area around my new home, as well as the new home itself, "Esmerelda." No more Chevy Chase. Now, I live in Esmerelda. Because I said so.

When friends say, 'Where is book club next month? Isn't it at Anne's place in Chevy Chase?" my buddy will correct them and say, "No! It's at Anne's place in Esmerelda."

You are an idiot.

[Anonymous]

Why do we call the Falls Church Safeway, Safeway? Why not just call it Falls Church? Why did the name have to change for the exact same address?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Four Sisters is much better than a Rio Grande Cafe.

Im really tired of praving about four sisters. Give it a rest already! It is just an average Asian place. Just because it's the only decent Asian place within 2 miles of here doesn't make it some amazing restaurant.

It actually sort of sucks!