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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The area was hopping around 2007. Barneys was there, Bloomingdales was brand new. Lots of shopping options in the pavillion. I loved seeing movies at Mazza. (Ward 3 needs more cinemas, but that's another post.)

I think online shopping and covid were the causes. But I'm not sure the new options are going to be much better from a retail perspective. DC used to be the place to go to shop, not people in DC have to go to the burbs to shop. 
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In 2007, I never went to Friendship Heights -- I lived downtown, I wasn't interested in high-end shopping, and there were plenty of other movie theaters. Now I live here, and the shopping still didn't appeal to me before the buildings were torn down (the movie theater did, but covid and AMC's overall travails killed it before the redevelopment plans did). I don't think the retail needs to be a regional destination to succeed; there's obviously an enormous amount of income right in the immediate area, and they'd do better with shops that meet local needs and that aren't tucked away inside a mall but rather easily accessible from the street. [/quote]

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