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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Of course there's a bad reputation. People just put up with a lot to be close to the metro and the DC USA build-out.

Columbia Heights was horrible when I moved here 11 years ago and its just as bad today. If you chose to move there knowing that it had 'issues' that's on you.[/quote]

Now imagine the DCUSA site as a trash-filled vacant lot, the Tivoli complex rotting away, zero new condo buildings and perhaps the worst Giant in DC and you can imagine what it was like 20 years ago, when I lived there. There were basically zero restaurants apart from a few Chinese-food places and (I think) a Subway, few businesses apart from the aforementioned awful Giant and bulletproof-glass liquor stores and next to zero foot traffic after dark on 14th, making it a street to avoid.

So yeah, it's way better than it was. But putting a poorly designed shopping mall and a few cheaply built luxury apartment building there clearly isn't the solution, as we've all seen over the years.[/quote]

Don't forget El Rinconcito!!  We moved there when there were nothing but empty lots - the Tivoli empty lot where the new Giant is - was a literal shanty town with a full garden.  Which was fine...just some Latino immigrants who drank too much but were no issues other then that.  At least they were using the space.  And the meat the Giant used to be green. I kid you not.  You would get off the metro at 9pm and be the only one getting off!  I can remember one time getting off with a younger woman and we agreed to walk together as far as we could for safety.

Always been violent crime - drive by shootings.  What is interesting is we saw more crime there then anyplace we have lived in DC - even DuPont in the 90s - and yet nothing ever happened to us or our property.  It was a great community who looked out for each other.  Biggest problem spots were near the public housing especially 13th and Columbia.  But, how do you fix that?  We need diversity of housing and more affordable.  [/quote]

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