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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Friendship Heights needs to just revert back to single family or townhouse type. Like a new upscale McLean Gardens. Lord and Taylor and Mazza razed would provide lots of room for delightful family housing.  [/quote]

This is the easy densification throw away answer that never answers the real questions. Let's just say that you convert all that space into your silly one bedroom apartments. Then what? Where do they shop? How do we attract those shops now? Build away, but also figure out why retail does not work there except for there Wawa and mattress stores. [/quote]

I don’t mean one bedroom apartments.  I mean a community development with a mix of townhouses and SFHs with, as I mentioned immediately thereafter, non upscale stores such as a Jiffy Lube and some other middle brow useful places that people need to hike to Rockville to use now. Retail doesn’t work because there’s only so much demand for Jimmy Choo and stupid themed restaurants like the red beet. They need to raze those stupid existing department stores and Geico (wtf) what a waste of land, and build homes and normal retail. Not more Whole Foods or Harris Teeter junk. Normal stuff for normal people.

Again I never suggested one bedroom apartments. To the contrary. Normal 2500-3000 sf single family and garage townhomes. Some drive through restaurants and smart street parking. [/quote]

Raising office buildings that (in non-pandemic times) bring thousands of people into the area would be good for retail?  That seems off.[/quote]

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