Macklin Development

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Dismal scene is the treeless Promenade. May
we go back to call it a sidewalk, missing its
high function service lane. Lost souls drift around, sleep in a new bench. Addicted and physically sick need medical attention. Office of Planning wrote in its development plan that planning for Conn Ave was for “integration interface.” None in the Office live here. Data is their guide. Developers/Smart Growth lobby
ruining the Conn Ave Historic District.

+1. In retrospect I think the ANC made a terrible mistake in their all out push for “public spaces” while the city is simultaneously stacking the Connecticut Ave buildings with homeless and mentally ill. The commercial strip now seems less welcoming than it did before, which I did not think was possible.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Dismal scene is the treeless Promenade. May
we go back to call it a sidewalk, missing its
high function service lane. Lost souls drift around, sleep in a new bench. Addicted and physically sick need medical attention. Office of Planning wrote in its development plan that planning for Conn Ave was for “integration interface.” None in the Office live here. Data is their guide. Developers/Smart Growth lobby
ruining the Conn Ave Historic District.

+1. In retrospect I think the ANC made a terrible mistake in their all out push for “public spaces” while the city is simultaneously stacking the Connecticut Ave buildings with homeless and mentally ill. The commercial strip now seems less welcoming than it did before, which I did not think was possible.

How someone can walk down a spacious area, with new planters and trees just taking root, and say to themselves "this sucks I wish I was crammed up by the building jostling elbows with people and dodging opening shop doors while huffing in exhaust from idling cars instead" I can only chalk up to some extreme carbrain damage. Or maybe lead paint.

[Anonymous]

“The Promenade” feels like a “spacious area” the way a treeless concrete parking lot feels spacious.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The tax sale

The head of Cleveland Park Smart Growth is very connected in Trumpworld. So perhaps the Trumps will be persuaded to buy the Mackin, to be renamed the “Trump Stump at Uptowne Plaza.”

More than half the people of Cleveland Park are connected to Trumpworld. You think people who own the mansions west of the avenue don't associate with other rich people, regardless of party?!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:“The Promenade” feels like a “spacious area” the way a treeless concrete parking lot feels spacious.

Trees take time to grow. They are planted.

Again, the counterfactual was black asphalt with idling cars and virtually no space for people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:“The Promenade” feels like a “spacious area” the way a treeless concrete parking lot feels spacious.

Trees take time to grow. They are planted.

Again, the counterfactual was black asphalt with idling cars and virtually no space for people.

But there are no more trees planted or even planned than when the area was designed to be shared between sidewalk space and the “black asphalt” (actually granite pavers) service road. Where are the DC funds for more planters and trees, to make the space shady and inviting? All the local ANC seems to care about is rewarding their favorite business with more outdoor bar space on the pretentiously proclaimed “Promenade.” Surely the community can do better than that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The tax sale

The head of Cleveland Park Smart Growth is very connected in Trumpworld. So perhaps the Trumps will be persuaded to buy the Mackin, to be renamed the “Trump Stump at Uptowne Plaza.”

More than half the people of Cleveland Park are connected to Trumpworld. You think people who own the mansions west of the avenue don't associate with other rich people, regardless of party?!

You don’t know Cleveland Park. In any event, they don’t work for Trump’s campaign.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The tax sale

The head of Cleveland Park Smart Growth is very connected in Trumpworld. So perhaps the Trumps will be persuaded to buy the Mackin, to be renamed the “Trump Stump at Uptowne Plaza.”

More than half the people of Cleveland Park are connected to Trumpworld. You think people who own the mansions west of the avenue don't associate with other rich people, regardless of party?!

You don’t know Cleveland Park. In any event, they don’t work for Trump’s campaign.

Well, Single Family only zoning, no housing vouchers, car infrastructure as predominant investment, reacting adversely to the convenience of '15-minute' cities, etc. are all platforms of the Trump administration and not the Biden-Harris one. So go figure.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The tax sale

The head of Cleveland Park Smart Growth is very connected in Trumpworld. So perhaps the Trumps will be persuaded to buy the Mackin, to be renamed the “Trump Stump at Uptowne Plaza.”

More than half the people of Cleveland Park are connected to Trumpworld. You think people who own the mansions west of the avenue don't associate with other rich people, regardless of party?!

You don’t know Cleveland Park. In any event, they don’t work for Trump’s campaign.

Well, Single Family only zoning, no housing vouchers, car infrastructure as predominant investment, reacting adversely to the convenience of '15-minute' cities, etc. are all platforms of the Trump administration and not the Biden-Harris one. So go figure.

The one or two people on here who are so heavily focused on somehow convincing people that Trump gives a whit about CP and also that making CP a more livable and walkable place is some GOP plot are very, very weird.

[Anonymous]

Was the deadbeat developer’s property auctioned at the tax sale?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Was the deadbeat developer’s property auctioned at the tax sale?

No, they just paid the taxes. Development will continue as planned.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Was the deadbeat developer’s property auctioned at the tax sale?

No, they just paid the taxes. Development will continue as planned.

Taxes were only one of the problems. Kang Development Co. stopped paying its general contractor which resulted in the construction crane being removed and the site shuttered. The developer seems to be headed to BK, the latest chapter (no pun intended) in this clown show.

[Anonymous]

What’s happening with the adjacent Uptown Theater?

[Anonymous]

We drove by today... It's nice the construction is gone but after all that hassle barely looks different. Just they poured concrete and a few spindly trees? Needs a bit more oomph as a public space.

[Anonymous]

The whole area is slated for denser and taller development so likely it will be a big construction zone for the next 5 to 7 years. The spindly trees will come down and will be replaced at the end.