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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Preach OP! I’ve been here for 22 years. We’re very close to the recent shooting of the 15 year old. I think the first thing to work on is getting rid of Brianne Nadeau. She is worthless.[/quote]

This.  To start with.  Jim Graham was a mean-spirited vengeful corrupt AF crook, but he DID help get Columbia Heights rebuilt in the late 90s/early 2000s after the commercial area had sat decimated since 1968.  He wouldn't have tolerated the collection of drunks who now occupy what used to be a child-friendly splash park.

But the problem then, as now, is that there is just too much concentrated subsidized housing along 14th Street.  That was preserved, while the row homes turned over and the newer apartments/condos all catered to a higher income demographic.  So Columbia Heights never got any "missing middle" housing---which it would get if low rise Columbia Heights Village got completely replaced with higher density but more mixed income housing.  Concentrated multi-generational poverty breeds concentrated multi-generational crime.

And because Columbia Heights never had enough of one income demographic to really support the retail, the retail along 14th/DCUSA struggled even prior to the pandemic.  The stores that survive are the ones that everyone shops at regardless of income:  Target, Best Buy, Bed Bath & Beyond.   For restaurants it is chains like Chipotle or ChicFila.  And the real nail in the retail coffin was when Pete's, PotBelly and Five Guys were replaced by the WaWa, which glazed over the windows so that there are less retail "eyes on the street"[/quote]

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