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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I live walking distance to FH on the DC side. Young family as are almost all of our neighbors. We'd kill for services we could actually use on a regular basis - a hardware store, bookstore, library, plant nursery, playground, etc. How about Matt Frumin's promised ice rink? Instead it's going to end up more chains and overpriced "modern" apartments that will age badly in 10 years.

Re some of the comments, although there is a ton in the process of being built, there is currently actually very little apartment housing in the stretch between Tenleytown and FH (or north beyond FH), except the two giant old people complexes in FH proper. All of those other buildings are office buildings. Almost all of the housing in the area currently is single family houses.

I too like the stretch on the east side the best because it is low rise. It's more comfortable walking without giant buildings looming over you. But that's the price you pay for having a walkable city with accessible housing.

And for the comments about the Geico parking lot, that's about the only decent place within about 20 minutes drive to learn how to ride a bike or drive a car...[/quote]

There used to be Borders at FH where Marshalls now resides.  I doubt FH could support a bookstore, although I hear now Barnes n Noble is back in fashion as the "local" bookstore.  There is an Ace hardware in Tenleytown, and Rodmans also carries a bunch of hardware-like items in the basement...again, I doubt FH could support another hardware store.

The only thing that is possibly different about FH, is that there seems like there is room for a Home Depot or a Lowes.  That would be a gamechanger, but would of course doom the Tenley Ace hardware.

There is only one nursery at American Plant in Bethesda.  I just don't see a nursery (other than if part of the HD described above) surviving.

BTW, Geico polices their lot nowadays so you can't use it to learn to drive.  We tried a couple of times with our current teenagers, to no avail.  Actually, found Whitman HS to be a good place to learn to drive.[/quote]

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