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Anonymous
| Totally sarcastic. |
Anonymous
| What Landon is to character and sportsmanship, GDS is to architecture and cafeterias. |
Anonymous
Proving my theory that intelligent readers don't really need emoticons to interpret listserv posts accurately, LOL! |
Anonymous
How about, what Landon is to Duke and UVA, GDS is to Harvard. |
Anonymous
ouch! I think...? |
Anonymous
| Please tell me that, at some point in this thread, someone has actually said, "I know you are, but what am I?" |
Anonymous
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They have now.
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Anonymous
It's not the SES, it's that the school is already so overcrowded. More kids... just what Janney doesn't need. Maybe they could get a discount from GDS? |
Anonymous
GDS has already announced that the investment will be used to support financial aid. But admission is a separate process, and it would be inappropriate to tie admission or tuition to geographic proximity to GDS. As far as Janney becoming overcrowded, isn't the easiest solution to split the district and send part to nearby Hearst? |
Anonymous
| Very interesting article on traffic and parking and the GDS proposal in the NW Current. |
Anonymous
| What Tenleytown neighbors had better not forget is that, if GDS plans to build along Wisconsin Ave. are frustrated, it can always sell the property to a third party developer and make a tidy profit. A new developer won't have the same incentive as the school necessarily to try to be a good neighbor to the community. It will have every incentive to to completely max out the development potential of the site, and will probably have the support of the mayor's office to do so. |
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"What Tenleytown neighbors had better not forget is that, if GDS plans to build along Wisconsin Ave. are frustrated, it can always sell the property to a third party developer and make a tidy profit. A new developer won't have the same incentive as the school necessarily to try to be a good neighbor to the community. It will have every incentive to to completely max out the development potential of the site, and will probably have the support of the mayor's office to do so."
Ask the folks who spent more than 12 years getting Cathedral Commons approved how that worked out. Once the neighbors get organized - if they are not already - they will argue that a developer is using the school as a public relations ploy. Whether you or pro or anti development on Wisconsin Avenue and the GDS project itself, it will be increasingly difficult to argue that GDS's involvment makes it more neighborly. From the neighbor's point of view, it's just another big construction project. The school, with its' hard start at the beginning of the day and at the end, is like having a factory in the neighborhood in terms of traffic. Plus, condos and stores have a more spread out traffic pattern and would be easier for the neighborhood to absorb. So one could argue that it would be easier to approve and to swallow if the school was not involved. |
Anonymous
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Instead of a commercial developer trying to maximize his profit at that site, what we'll have is both a commercial developer trying to maximize his profit at the site and a school trying to create revenue stream large enough to prevent tuition increases (for 1200 students) and to increase financial aid. Having GDS in the mix just increases the amount of revenue extraction necessary to make a development project viable.
From the developers' POV, having the school do the PUD offloads predevelopment costs and represents the best chance for maximizing allowable density since the whole campus can be used as a basis for determining how many SF can be built. GDS will argue that all the unused development capacity on land devoted to the playing field, green space, and lower scale academic buildings should be transferred to the Wisconsin Ave frontage. That's an outcome a developer purchasing the Martens property probably couldn't achieve on his own. |
Anonymous
You seem really nice. |