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[quote=Anonymous]I might be the only one, but as a long-time resident (grew up here in the 80's), I think this "hit" (even accepting the premise of the article) would not necessarily be a bad thing. The development of DC has been far from uniformly positive; "density" is overrated. Metro Center/ Farragut has always sucked--used to be dangerous and crappy then became bland and soulless (and remarkably, for a long period of time, managed to be all of those adjectives simultaneously). The commute in (even from other parts of DC, I'm in NE) is life-draining, and it was always inherently a bad transportation scenario when a massive percentage of your workforce all has to commute in/out of 1-2 sq. miles of offices twice a day. I welcome a bit of "hollowing out" and think both a much more decentralized distribution of work/commercial spaces and a more creative use of downtown would ultimately be a boon.[/quote]
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