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Wawa, CVS, FedEx, BB&T Bank, 7-11: None of which are in that mall. DCUSA also takes up a comically massive footprint in the neighborhood, complete with an always-empty parking garage, so writing it off as "one building" is putting lipstick on a pig. Your prized density has brought with it soulless, charmless retail that can be found anywhere else. The recipe is already being repeated in other "dense" neighborhoods.[/quote]

I don't understand why you keep referring to DC USA as an example of density. It's not. For one thing, it has a two-story underground parking garage with 1,000 spaces.[/quote]
It’s apparent you guys just make up definitions for words and concepts on the fly. [/quote]

"You guys" who?[/quote]
DC USA not being an example of density because it has underground parking is purely made up. [/quote]

Then could you please explain how it is an example of density?[/quote]
This is not debate club. You said it is not. And you made that up. You prove it or go away. [/quote]

Who made what up? Somebody kept referring to DCUSA as an example of density. Why? It's a suburban-style shopping mall development in a city.[/quote]

DCUSA is a Marion Barry-era attempt at economic development, and should be no one’s template for infill.  But it is certainly density, even if it is just retail and not housing.  I don’t understand the point that if a development has onsite parking that it is somehow not “density.”[/quote]

it is 2 1/2 stories on top of a metro station. Exactly not density.[/quote]

Cool, when are we going to see 5,000 GGW posts on why DCUSA must be upzoned? If that crowd was at all ideologically coherent, it would demand that DCUSA be torn down and housing be built in its place. DC's densest neighborhood should not have a suburban shopping mall with a giant parking garage plopped on top of a Metro station.[/quote]

[b]GGW functions on this message board in the same way as "critical race theory" does on Fox News: as an all-purpose enemy to which many, many evils can be attributed. 
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D.C.'s densest neighborhood is exactly the right place for mixed-use zoning, i.e., shopping in the middle of housing. I don't think you'd see any objection from "that crowd" to a proposal to tear down DCUSA and replace it with better, or more, commercial use, or even with housing on top of it. But if you think intellectual consistency on their part requires them to want exactly the same thing in every part of the city, you don't understand the issues they're discussing, even if you disagree with them about them.[/quote]
One is an obscure theory taught in grad school seminars to Comparative Lit MA students.

The other is an organization that has a history of unethical conduct.

Both of these things are the same.[/quote]

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