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

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Anonymous wrote:Vibrant and happening is often 8 years after "good investment"

Woodridge
Stronghold
Deanwood
Fort Totten

Where are these?

If you have to ask...

Seriously? Stronghold is a made up gentrified name. I've lived here for 25 years, we call that neighborhood Cathloic U neighborhood.

I'm going to rename my block Winterfell. Don't you know it?

It's like when they renamed the NY Ave Metro area/Galludet to NoMa...DRIVES ME CRAZY!!

I do wish people would stop changing the names every couple of years. I used to work in Chinatown, now I work in Penn Quarter. I used to live in Mount Vernon Square, now I live in Mount Vernon Triangle. It's very confusing.

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The area where DMV inspection station is.

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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.

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?

My my, someone forgot to take their happy pill today.

I've actually been to Anacostia and no, it is not the sort of place that I would enjoy a leisurely stroll. And yes, I live in DC.

I'm the PP who first mentiioned HA up above. I don't think any thing bad will happen to you strolling around during the day, though the commercial blocks are unattractive enough to deter walking - only place I would want to stroll is a one or two residential blocks. And I am not willing to move there now (note, I currently live in Fairfax.) But there are people starting to renovate the houses there, there are a couple of galleries and a really nice arts center and a coffee shop or two, and I think an independent theater aside from the one in the Arts Center. I am not sure when BB&P goes in, but Shallal has announced his intention. And DC has announced its intention to convert tear down Barry Farms and to replace it with mixed income housing. That could be delayed (as has the move of DHS) but I think sometime between one and three years from now HA will have reached the point where change accelerates.

Was Barry Farms named after Marion Barry, or just coincidence?

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Anonymous wrote:[quote=AnonymousTearing down Barry Farms is a terrible idea. People live there. Pushing them out for who?

I believe the goal is to replace the public housing units on site, and also to add market rate units. The housing IIUC is very old and needs considerable $$ to remain habitable. By adding market rate units, that becomes more affordable to the govt - and also means poor people are living in a mixed area, and not only isolated with other poor people - some studies have shown that leads to better outcomes for the poor.

DC has a poor track record of bring the low income units back on line after doing some thing like that - so I can understand people being skeptical about its implementation. But I don't think there is an alternative plan to rehab the units, and I think this kind of thing is generally a good idea.

The goal - mixed income housing - is a good one but I'd like to see it done in a way that makes residents feel like they are wanted and not a nuisance to be gotten rid of.

They will not be gotten rid of. The reality is that tearing down the project with replacement of all units will make it more likely that HA property values go up (which I gather was OP's question) Its also reality that were the folks with incomes under 30% of average household inome to become fewer in number, that would probably increase property values even more - though that is not what is planned here.

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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.

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?

My my, someone forgot to take their happy pill today.

I've actually been to Anacostia and no, it is not the sort of place that I would enjoy a leisurely stroll. And yes, I live in DC.

I'm the PP who first mentiioned HA up above. I don't think any thing bad will happen to you strolling around during the day, though the commercial blocks are unattractive enough to deter walking - only place I would want to stroll is a one or two residential blocks. And I am not willing to move there now (note, I currently live in Fairfax.) But there are people starting to renovate the houses there, there are a couple of galleries and a really nice arts center and a coffee shop or two, and I think an independent theater aside from the one in the Arts Center. I am not sure when BB&P goes in, but Shallal has announced his intention. And DC has announced its intention to convert tear down Barry Farms and to replace it with mixed income housing. That could be delayed (as has the move of DHS) but I think sometime between one and three years from now HA will have reached the point where change accelerates.

Was Barry Farms named after Marion Barry, or just coincidence?

coincidence - the names goes back to 1867, when farmer James Barry sold his land to the freedmens bureau, an agency of the federal governtment, for a settlement of freed slaves.