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What story did I make up?

There is no park or playground at Rockville Town Center.  So RTC does not draw people to it the way Rio does.  If we want RTC to survive and thrive the way Rio does, we need to make it more inviting.  Putting up more high density housing does not make RTC more appealing to anyone.  
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Presumably it makes it more appealing to the people who will live in the housing - even if it doesn't make it more appealing to you.

I, personally, can't understand the appeal of Rio. Yet there it is. So obviously things that don't appeal to me personally can nonetheless be successufl.[/quote]

I agree with this pp.  I’d take it one step further.  I don’t even consider Rio to be the same thing as RTC.  Rio is just a mall with housing and strip malls built around it.  It’s a better designed Columbia or Arundal Mills.  RTC is not a mall.  There are government offices, the courts, lawyer offices, and more in the RTC area.  People can live and/or work at RTC.  It has a large employment base.  The number of office workers a block or two blocks from Rio is mindfulness compared to RTC and they don’t have Metro.

That’s not to say I have a problem with a playground being added to RTC but the idea that a playground or some small park will save businesses is kind of silly.[/quote]

RTC has the splash fountain, the skating rink,the rocks and the library..which I think sort of checks off the kid fun box ok.[/quote]
 DP..  The "green" area is tiny. I think a little park adjacent to TC would be good. It would definitely draw in even more families.  [/quote]

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