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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are plenty of landlords who will keep their apartments empty.  It’s not such a dumb thing to do.

This has been the issue at Rockville Town Center.  The landlord kept raising rents so that they became unreasonably high and so many stores closed.  Then the City swooped in and promised to subsidize Dawson’s.  So the landlord ended up getting more money.  And had the units stayed empty, they declare it a loss.

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You're making several mistakes here. 
First, you're conflating Dawsons Market, a super expensive whole foods like store, with apartment rents.  Second, you're telling everyone that there are many unoccupied apartments in the town center without any evidence and based only on your word.

I won't even bother addressing your first mistake because the entire thread has nothing to do with businesses.  As to the second, I went and looked and found very few available apartments.  The Metropolitan at Rockville has only 6 available units: http://www.metrockville.com/floor-plans-result/
The Upton has only 9 units available and this building is much larger: https://www.uptonrockville.com/floor-plans/apartment?min_price=&max_price=&availability=&floor=

It seems to me that you see a "now leasing" sign advertising a handful of open units and you are making the assumption that buildings are mostly empty.  That simply is not the case.  I'm not arguing for accessory dwelling units here but it's clear that you're absolutely wrong about Rockville Town Square apartments being empty.  They would not want to build more if there was no demand for rentals.  Lastly, you're comparing the city of Rockville with the county.  The city council dictates land usage inside the city limits and they have passed their own ADU rules in recent council meetings but the county council has no say on what happens in the city of Rockville for this.[/quote]

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