Shooting in dc nw Tenleytown, it's spilling into the "good" areas

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I heard CVS and a few banks are eyeing the place.

That would be an improvement.

No, WTH is with all the banks. We don't need another CVS either. I'm fine with anything else moving in.

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Anonymous wrote:That McDonald's should NOT be open 24 hours a day. That is just asking for trouble. Nothing good ever happens at 3:50am. I hope they start closing at 11pm.

Or better yet, it should sell to Starbucks or another coffeehouse.

Starbucks in Tenley closed. Why would they open another? Rents are FAR too high- large landlords have found a way to make more money on vacant properties in DC as write offs and the Council and Mayor won't close that slushy loophole . Such "vibrancy"!

Starbucks picks their neighborhoods very carefully. If they closed there, it’s a very bad sign.

Lack of revenue. There are no office workers nearby. AU students have abundant coffee choices on campus. Same strip has a Panera and also a Wawa opened, so direct competition. The issue is not crime and the main crime in that area has traditionally been shoplifting from CVS.

And at least two recent carjackings - one in the CVS parking lot and one on Chesapeake by Fort Reno.

The carjackings are a new thing and not restricted to Tenleytown, obviously. There was a carjacking on Friday night in the middle of downtown Bethesda. Speaking for myself, I personally avoid shopping at that CVS because it’s awful and has always been unsafe.

While Wawa in Columbia Heights closed due to crime, I can guarantee that this Starbucks closed on purely revenue-based decisions. One key metric that Wall Street looks at is same store sales growth and I doubt that store had any, to add to obviously low revenue in the first place.
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Are you talking about the one in Tenleytown? It was always hopping. The issue in Tenleytown (and much of DC) is landlords charge extraordinary rents so NO BUSINESS can be profitable. When the property is shuttered, they use it as a tax write off for years and years. The Council has passed no laws to disincentivize that landlords make more off of closed, than open properties. This is on our city managers to fix.

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My relative got robbed in a parking lot in the nice area of Cleveland park during the good times (before the pandemic) when things were going generally swimmingly. Anywhere where there is commercial area or proximity to public transit stops you have to exercise increased caution regardless what area this is. If it's dark out and not many people even if it's not that late in the day, just watch your back. Walking down the street, getting into your car, watch your back. It's always been the rule in the urban areas or even commercial suburban strips.