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02/23/2023 23:15

Subject: GDS admissions

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Safeway was moving forward with their development. Then GDS made them and the used car lot an offer they couldn't refuse. From Washingtonian: https://www.washingtonian.com/2014/06/05/georgetown-day-school-buying-safeway-and-car-dealership-in-big-expansion/

"The school is spending about $40 million to buy the two properties, Grasheim says. That’s a great deal for Safeway and Martens, which have a combined assessment of about $10.2 million, according to DC property tax records."

They paid $30 million dollars more than the properties are worth. That's why they have to cheat on their enrollment. The used car lot they've left vacant since 2014 isn't bringing in any money, and I don't think they paid for the properties with cash.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t live in the neighborhood or attend GDS, but I do drive down Wisconsin every day. I’be wondered how it has become so desolate with so many abandoned stores and property. Now I know the answer, the ANC.

It’s the people in the neighborhood, and the ANC represents the neighborhood. I moved here in 2019. It’s shocking that they want to live in a city, in a neighborhood with 2 metro stations, and don’t want any cars or development. They’d rather have a ghost town of a Main Street. They have so much angst about traffic and about change. The GDS site was a run down Safeway - GDS is a vast improvement for the neighborhood by any measure. They don’t have a clear idea of what they want, but they will take everyone’s opinion no matter how incoherent. So the meetings are a mix of NIMBYs (if it’s something within 2-3 blocks from of their house) and YIMBYs (please build deeply affordable housing as long as it’s 3 blocks plus from my house). Please get rid of the diesel bus garage that’s been here for 100 years and don’t replace it with a garage for electric buses….which would lead to no buses for the people in the deeply affordable housing they say they want. (From a recent Wmata meeting about the Western bus garage relocation / electrification)

The ANC needs to grow a spine and some common sense. I think they’re mostly attorneys, but l wonder how successful they are at their day jobs. ANC is unpaid. I really appreciate them volunteering to do this public service, but not if they are so ineffective. Then again it’s the neighborhood they represent that is so ineffective.

Yes GDS screwed up, nonetheless l believe they are committed to being a great neighbor and will figure it out.

I know a lot of neighbors feel like me, but we are the sane quiet minority drowned out by the vocal angst ridden neighbors who want no change.

Run for an ANC seat next round. Be heard!

You did vote for ANC this last election, yes?

BTW, it was the neighbors who rejected a perfectly good proposal by Safeway to renovate the store so Safeway sold out to GDS. You all have no sense of history.

Still wonder why GDS didn’t just move to the burbs or EOTR. One would have gotten them more land instead of jamming the whole k-12 into that little parcel; the other, more credibility with their whole DEI thing. But they would have lost so many wealthy families who want to be in NWDC. And then complain about the constraints of being located in …. a city!