Reply to Restaurant out of business at Cathedral Commons

Forum Index » Real Estate

Reply to "Restaurant out of business at Cathedral Commons"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Rent increase is killing a lot of small business.[/quote]

Our zoning laws make it too hard to build densely in cities.  Until we fix zoning and take power out of the hands of NIMBYs we’re never going to have an affordable DC.[/quote]

There’s density on top Cathedral Commons and on both sides of it.  In fact Cathedral Commons is supposed to be a Greater Greater Washington blogger’s mixed-use wet dream.  The problem is that developers and their co-investors want chains and tenants with deep balance sheets and corporate guantees, not so much independent businesses.  They market and price their retail space accordingly.  So much for your theory, but nice try.[/quote]

Ummm no Cathedral Commons is hardly a GGW blogger's mixed-use wet dream - far from it actually - but you probably already knew that.

Any smart growther with common sense would prefer that Cathedral Commons be at least as dense as the buildings around it which it is not.   And they'd also object to the amount of parking and the requirements that it be given away for free - but I bet you knew that already too.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics