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Be careful what you wish for.  By the time Takoma Park becomes a "sought-after place" for restaurants, its quirky charater and neighborhood-orientation will be a thing of the past.  Once neighborhoods evolve into restaurant and retail destinations, rents rise, developers with their "smart growth" projects come in and the retail and restaurant options become pretty similar to the [b]"upscale generica"[/b] that you see in Bethesda and Clarendon, etc.

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As a resident of Clarendon, I would like to thank you for this phrase, which I am stealing. (I would shower you in Pottery Barn gift cards and a frozen yogurt if I could.)[/quote]

This is clever and so true.  At a community meeting on a large, mixed-use project in my area, we listened as the developer's consultants piously assured everyone that they planned diverse, useful "neighborhood-oriented" shopping.  Then they showed the "indicative" illustrations of the retail:  Pottery Barn, PF Changs, upscale yogurt shoppe and even Godiva chocolate!

LOL (or is it GOL? - gag out loud).[/quote]

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