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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m with you except for Mazza Gallerie. I grew up less than a mile away and walked by it almost every day, and that thing looked like a fancy marble prison from the get go which was always part of the problem. And when eventually it was renovated and the windows were added, the tenants were the ones who paid.[/quote]

I thought it was weird as a kid, but it grew on me over time and the atrium! The atrium was pretty rocking. The whole thing was awesomely 60s. [b]What will go up--little boxes, made of ticky tacky?[/b][/quote]

Off Wisconsin Ave NW, across from Sidwell Friends, in 2023? No. Four apartment buildings with 690 units total, a bunch of office space, a bunch of retail space, and an underground garage with 1,300 parking spaces.

And for what it's worth, those "little boxes, made of ticky tacky" in Daly City, California, now sell for $1.1 million or more, because the Bay Area has a severe housing shortage, because they made it really difficult to build more housing.[/quote]

Thank you for the history lesson - [b]interesting that so many people , including in CA, want SFHs[/b]!

For the record, I used that song as a stand in for mass production, homogenous architecture. I'm sure the houses referred to are kind of fascinating. The boxy multis going up around DC are not....[/quote]

"Interesting that so many people, including in California, want housing" is what you meant to say, right? There is no actual housing in the Bay Area, of any type, that is not expensive.

The houses in Daly City are not kind of fascinating. They are, as you say, the product of mass production, homogeneous architecture, to provide housing to the masses. Just like the row houses in East and West Baltimore in their time, or the tenements in the Lower East Side of NYC.

https://sjmusart.org/embark/_/media/images/2003.08_isaacsrobert_tickytackyhousesindalycity_FV.jpg

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